This is a Scientific American video about why leftover pizza is healthier for humans than fresh, hot pizza. It also has a reference to go with it (which I'll provide), from the esteemed journal Foods.
I knew that Sarah Brightman had sung the "Nessun Dorma" aria from Puccini's Turandot, which is famously and usually reserved for male tenors; I recently discovered that the gorgeous and supremely talented Katherine Jenkins (also a decent dancer on Dancing with the Stars) had done a version too. This version doesn't have the same production extras that Sarah's version has.
Listen to it here:
OK, I've been there. I've been to the top of it. I've even been directly over it in an airplane (headed to Milwaukee, I think), and knew what it was.
I didn't know it was a lighthouse! But in fact, it is the tallest "aid to navigation" in the United States, probably (though I didn't check) one of the tallest in the world.
It's not primarily a lighthouse, it is, as the name indicates, a monument to a naval battle in the War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Erie. This was the battle won by Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, which after he won it he communicated "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Thus, on the island near where that battle was fought, there is the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial. (And a bit ironic, as you'll see.)
To further help out, this is where that is.
And this is what the Lighthouse Directory says about it:
"1915. Active; focal plane 335 ft (102 m); white light, 3 s on, 3 s off. 352 ft (107 m) round granite tower topped by a bronze urn. Floodlit at night. ... This is the tallest aid to navigation in the U.S., 75% taller than Cape Hatteras Light. The tower commemorates the 1813 naval victory of a U.S. fleet led by Oliver [Hazard] Perry over a British fleet; it also recognizes the peace that has prevailed between the U.S. and Canada since 1815. An elevator carries visitors to an observation deck 317 ft (96.5 m) above the lake. A new visitor center opened in May 2002. The tower was closed for repairs and restoration during 2012. Located on the northeastern portion of South Bass Island, which is accessible by ferries from Catawba Island and Port Clinton."
(What I underlined is the ironic part, given the uneasiness between Canada and the U.S. due to the current Imbecile-in-Chief.)
So of course I will have pictures and a video.
New research indicates that wildfires release more air pollution, in the form of smoke and the accompanying toxic gases, than previously thought.
The updated estimate is an increase of 20% or so, and it is primarily in the form of un-estimated volatile organic compounds. But for a big wildfire, that can be a lot more smoke and associated stuff nobody wants to breathe.
Wildfires Could Emit More Air Pollution Than Previously Estimated
That's a direct quote. First question, what does "large number" mean? I have my suspicions, but I have to look in the actual article. So I did. And I think my suspicion was wrong. I thought the large number might be molecular weight, but I think it's saturation vapor concentration. I.e., the VOCs fully volatilize, reaching their maximum saturation vapor concentration, but the IVOCs and SVOCs don't, so it's harder to estimate or measure how much of them is in the smoke."Each year, large swaths of forests, grass and peat burn in wildfires, releasing a complex mix of water vapor, ash and carbon-based compounds into the air. Some of these carbon-based compounds are gases called volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Others that evaporate and turn into gases at warmer temperatures are known as intermediate- and semi-volatile organic compounds (IVOCs and SVOCs, respectively). And in the air, these partially-volatile compounds form fine particles — pollutants that can be harmful if breathed in — more easily than VOCs."
"However, most studies assessing wildland fire emissions overlook IVOCs and SVOCs because of their large number, which makes it hard to measure these compounds. Researchers led by Shuxiao Wang wanted to take IVOCs and SVOCs emissions along with VOCs into consideration to offer better insight into wildland fires’ impact on air quality, health and climate."
If you've seen Avatar: Fire and Ash (I did), perhaps you're wondering what actress was behind the character of Varang, the leader of the ash clan, the Mangkwan. Varang has two roles in the clan, both the leader/chief, and also the high priestess / spiritual leader.
Enough about that. The actress is Oona Chaplin, Charlie's granddaughter, who was seen in most of her entirety in Game of Thrones before she had a particularly bad experience at a wedding banquet.
So, below, Varang and her Game of Thrones character, Talisa Maegyr/Stark.
Scientific American reports on the search for subsurface oceans on some of the moons of the Solar System. They may be harder to find (if they exist) than earlier thought.
New Views of Solar System Moons Complicate Ocean Worlds Theory
The article discusses two research papers about Saturn's unique moon Titan and Jupiter's white-cold moon Europa. Titan might be less interesting than previously thought, with a slushy interior rather than an actual hydrocarbon ocean. Europa probably still has an ocean, but it may be a lot harder to drill down to reach, considering that it might be 20 miles or so under the surface."New observations of Europa gathered by NASA’s Juno mission, however, suggest that the ice shell is on the thicker side of scientists’ estimates, closer to 20 miles deep—although the exact depth depends on the ocean’s saltiness.
“There have been theoretical arguments, but this is the first pretty much direct physical measurement,” says Steven Levin, project scientist of the Juno mission and an astrophysicst at JPL.
That calculation is based on data from Juno’s microwave radiometer, an instrument that was designed to peer deep into Jupiter’s atmosphere but that is now turned toward analyzing the planet’s largest moons’ internal structure, too. Remarkably, the measurement was based on only about five minutes of data because of the constraints of the Juno spacecraft’s existing orbit around Jupiter, Levin notes."
I'm a sucker for these lists of the "Best of [ Something ] in Each State". So even though I don't play golf, I do enjoy watching it, particularly a close tournament, because of the nerviness involved.
This list of top golf courses in each state thus caught my interest.
The Best Golf Course in Each State
Since I'm in Maryland, I naturally checked to see which course in Maryland was picked. It's the Bulle Rock course in northeastern Maryland, just inland from Havre de Grace. I've been near it.
The introduction indicates that these courses are accessible to the public, because there are likely great (and with accompanying exorbitant membership fees) private courses. For example, how is the best course in California NOT Pebble Beach? Or in Georgia, wouldn't Augusta National be the number one run of 18 holes? So if you play, these are playable and your wallet might survive the experience.
Two other notes: The course picked in Wisconsin is in the middle of the rural center of the state, which might mean it's not too hard to get a tee time. The private Whistling Straits course on the shore of Lake Michigan north of Sheboygan might be the overall best course.
Two, there is a lot of great scenery around these courses. The Divide Ranch & Club in Colorado stands out in this category. It also happens to be just a little north of the mining towns Ouray and Telluride.
A view from the course:
Back around Christmastime, a big storm blew into California. One of the more notable sights of damager was the Lick Observatory, up in the mountains above San Jose.
This video shows some of what happened. Hopefully, soon it will be back looking at the stars, and I hope budget cuts don't keep it from that operation.
"Built in the 1880s and in continuous use for nearly 140 years, the 36-inch Great Refractor was once the largest telescope of its kind and still anchors the observatory’s education and public-viewing programs. The pause in tours and public nights is a stark reminder of how vulnerable century-old instruments can be on an exposed mountain and why teams are racing to shield the telescope before any more storms roll through, according to the San Francisco Chronicle."
The Great Refractor is shown below. I learned while finding a picture of it that it is currently the largest refracting telescope currently in operation, as the largest, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, is currently not operational and may never be restored to operation.
Yes, I know I'm a bit behind in my blog posting. So this is the start of my comeback. I searched for "multi-color lighthouse", and this one showed up. Clearly it is what I searched for.
So, this is the Faro de Ajo or the Faro de Cabo de Ajo, located in Cantabria on the northern coast of Spain, near Santander and to the west of Bilbao. If that's not enough to locate it for you, click here.
This is what the Lighthouse Directory says, in part:
"1985 (station established 1930). Active; focal plane 71 m (233 ft); white light occulting three times (2 s each) every 16 s. 14 m (46 ft) cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and double gallery, rising from a circular 1-story base. Lighthouse originally painted white; lantern dome is gray metallic. ... This handsome modern tower, designed by Fernando Rodríguez Pérez, was one of the first new lighthouses built under the Plan de Señales Marítimas 1985-89. In 2020 the lighthouse was painted in bright colors in an intricate design by the artist Okuda San Miguel".
Here's another page on it, with some close-up pictures: An artist has turned this Spanish lighthouse into a colourful work of art
Certainly if you're reading this, you want to see pictures right here, so they are under this line.
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In the previous post I mentioned The American Revolution series on PBS. I watched the credits and discovered it was (still) being narrated by the super-narrator Peter Coyote. Since he's been doing that for a long time, I wondered how old he is. Turns out Peter is 84.
This is somewhat what he looks like around the time of now.
This being the 250th anniversary year of the founding of the United States, there's lots of history being discussed.
I was watching the The American Revolution documentary series on PBS last week, and it happened to be Episode 4, which included both the American defeats and retreats from around Philadelphia (not Washington's finest hour, nor was it Britain's, particularly focusing on the Paoli massacre), and also the Battle of Saratoga.
That's what I'm briefly talking about here. I've been there, and I've seen the monument to a leg. The leg, belonged to Benedict Arnold, of course.
A case could be made that had it not been for Arnold's bravery and courage at Saratoga, where his leg was significantly injured, the American Revolution would not have resulted in a victory for the newly formed republic, or it would have been a much longer slog. As the episode described and as something I was aware of before, the victory at Saratoga and the surrender of a large British army gave Benjamin Franklin, who was staying in France, a good reason to go to the French government and convince them that the USA was a worthy ally, and was strong enough to defeat the British, with some help in the form of arms, troops, and above all, MONEY. And France provided all of that, eventually.
Prior to Saratoga, Arnold, an army commander, also directed the construction of a fleet on Lake Champlain. Though in its one major engagement in the lake it lost, it did delay the British from taking over Fort Ticonderoga until some time in 1777.
The other details about his life are fascinating, and of course his vanity and his grudges led to his treasonous actions, but if Arnold has not done what he did before the betrayal, we might still be acknowledging the King or Queen of Britain as our sovereign ruler.
This interest in Arnold led me to wonder where his grave site is. That's a fascinating story, too.
Benedict Arnold's Body Lies in the Wall of a British Kindergarten
"When the British invasion from Canada did come, Arnold was a field commander as the Continental Army met it at Saratoga, New York. Arnold was wounded twice in the defense of Saratoga, but the American victory led to French intervention and, eventually, American independence -- but the credit for Saratoga went to Gen. Horatio Gates." (As I said.)"Arnold died in 1801 and was interred at St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London, England. The basement crypt of the old church is where the Sunday school classes are held and, on weekdays, is rented out to a private kindergarten.
Somewhere along the walls, amid the books, crayon drawings and fish tanks is a tombstone that reads "In this crypt lies the bodies of Benedict Arnold, 1741-1801, Sometime general in the army of George Washington and devoted wife Margaret Shippen and their beloved daughter Sophia Matilda Phipps. The two nations whom he served in turn in the years of their enmity have united in enduring friendship."
The marker
The church
While I really enjoy strawberries, as many other people do, I recently wondered if they really are a good, healthy fruit to consume.
It turns out, they are.
Strawberries 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
"Strawberries are bright red, juicy, and sweet.There's more specific and quantitative information in the linked article. Or you can look below.
They’re an excellent source of vitamin C and manganese and also contain decent amounts of folate (vitamin B9) and potassium.
Strawberries are very rich in antioxidants and plant compounds, which may have benefits for heart health and blood sugar control."
A few months (years, maybe) ago I discovered what cashew nuts look like growing on the cashew tree. If you don't know, look below. If you do know, good for you!
It's a bit complicated how they actually grow, so I recommend Wikipedia. The fleshy yellow thing above the nut is called the "cashew apple". It's a pseudocarp, or false fruit. But it is edible.
I remembered that when I decided to post about this, but even though I knew it was edible, I didn't know how it was used in food products. So Wikipedia told me:
"The mature cashew apple can be eaten fresh, cooked in curries, or fermented into vinegar, citric acid, or an alcoholic drink. It is also used to make preserves, chutneys, and jams in some countries, such as India and Brazil. In many countries, particularly in South America, the cashew apple is used to flavor drinks, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic. In Brazil, cashew fruit juice and fruit pulp are used to make sweets, and juice mixed with alcoholic beverages such as cachaça, and as flour, milk, or cheese. In Panama, the cashew fruit is cooked with water and sugar for a prolonged time to make a sweet, brown, paste-like dessert called dulce de marañón (marañón being a Spanish name for cashew). Cashew apple juice, however, may be used for manufacturing blended juices such as cajuína."
Now I want to see what it tastes like, but I don't have any travel to Brazil planned. Or Vietnam.
Cashew harvesting and processing:
I didn't say anything prior to now about the Australian Open (tennis) championship, which ended a week ago. As one review said, it was pretty boring, with most of the matches going according to the seeding.
It got mildly interesting on the men's side when Djokovic went five sets to defeat Sinner, setting up a final against Alcaraz, which was different than the expected Sinner-Alcaraz final. And, as expected, Alcaraz prevailed in the final, with Djokovic respectably taking a set. Now, Alcaraz-Zverev was pretty epic, with some amazing points from both players, and the drama of Djokovic managing to defeat Sinner was pretty good, too.
The women's side ended up both the way I expected it would and the way I wanted it to, with big hitters Sabalenka and Rybakina (sigh) going to the final. I thought Sabalenka had it when she went up 3-0 in the third, but Rybakina surprised me (and her). Jessica Pegula, who I think will end up winning one Slam eventually, gave Rybakina a challenge, but Rybakina was tuned in for this one. Even though this is only her second Slam, I think she's been both unlucky and slightly injured in previous events since her Wimbledon win, so Swiatek and Sabalenka came to the fore. The big three should be those three, with Coco Gauff still struggling to put her whole game together right now.
So, thank you Elena Rybakina, despite the fact that in victory or defeat you look just about the same.
She can definitely play.
And she can smile, too.
Covid-19 was a big scare a couple of years ago, and killed numerous people. Vaccines were developed that saved numerous lives. Influenza (the flu) kills lots of people every year, but getting the flu shot can save your life. Everybody is really scared of Ebola. If bird flu mutates, it could be really, really dangerous.
So malaria tends to be forgotten, because it's not a First World problem, in general. In the Third World, primarily Africa, it is estimated to kill around 600,000 people, predominantly children, every year. Furthermore, if you go to a place where malaria is endemic and you don't take your malaria prevention pills, you could catch it, like Cheryl (Cole) did. And clearly getting it is NOT fun.
So news about a malaria vaccine tested in humans should be really BIG news, right?
I can't understand why it's not.
OK, it's not quite a vaccine. It's a monoclonal antibody treatment. Maybe that would be a little more difficult to administer all over Africa.
But still -- it works.
New Malaria Antibody Yields Full Protection in Human Trial
"Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are laboratory-made protein clones that mimic the body’s natural immune defenses. MAM01 targets a highly conserved region of the Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein — a protein on the parasite’s outer surface — to block infection before it reaches the bloodstream.
The Phase 1, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled 38 healthy adults aged 18 to 50 with no prior malaria exposure. Participants received one dose of MAM01 or a placebo, and were then exposed to mosquitos carrying malaria, several months after dosing. This was done under carefully controlled conditions known as a challenge study. After the malaria challenge, none of the participants who received the highest dose of the monoclonal antibody developed infection, compared to all the participants in the placebo group."
I emphasize the words "none" and "all" in the above. That's like a perfect test - that's phenomenal.
See why I said it's big? Now, I don't know if there are special storage or preservation procedures that make this hard to distribute or administer, but it sure sounds like a potential game-changer in the malaria battle.
Reference: Lyke KE, Berry AA, Laurens MB, et al. Human monoclonal antibody MAM01 for protection against malaria in adults in the USA: a first-in-human, phase 1, dose-escalation, double-blind, placebo-controlled, adaptive trial. Lancet Infect Dis. 2025:S1473-3099(25)00481-5. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00481-5
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For historical reasons, I was poking around the coast of Argentina recently. So even though this Lighthouse is a bit late for last Week, I'm still going to use it.
Argentina has quite a few lights, but from what I can see in the Directory, not a lot of them are the traditional tower variety. Many of them are the skeletal kind, or little boxes.
However, this one is quite handsome. So as is my habit, first the location, which is here on the coast of Argentina. It's "in the middle" of the coast, well south of Buenos Aires.
So now about the lighthouse, let's learn:
"1925 (Santiago Orengo). Active; focal plane 78 m (256 ft); four white flashes, separated by 5 s, every 32 s. 27 m (89 ft) square brick tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern and gallery painted black. ... Located about 13 km (8 mi) north of Comodoro Rivadavia, the southernmost city of Chubut."
I acquired three pictures and a video, which are shown below. The video shows that the lighthouse is breathtakingly isolated.
I watched a Julie Andrews biography a few days ago, and near the end, it showed scenes of her voice-over work, most notably Gru's mother in the Despicable Me series. I was curious what else she's done, and so I looked at her IMDb biography. I noticed that she was listed in the cast of Aquaman as Karathen. I couldn't remember who that was, so I looked it up, and this is who Karathen is.
If you don't remember, or don't care, or didn't see the movie, Karathen is the gigantic sea creature that guards the Trident of Atlan. For those who might possibly see the movie who have not done so to this point, that's about all I can say.
But I can say that the voice is suitably imposing, though pretty much unrecognizable as Julie Andrews. I guess she should have sung a stanza of "The Sound of Music".
He's an article about her role: Julie Andrews Is Baffled By Her Aquaman Voice Role
Just drawing note to a model on Instagram with the handle "kristinarii", who appears to be named Krissy Airi. It's hard to be sure. Now, she caught my eye because of one stunning black-and-white photograph, which I provide below, along with a more "normal" recent photo.
I couldn't pass up this article about a possible sighting of dark matter by astronomers. I provided their description of it as the title of the post.
After a Century of Searching, We May Have Finally Seen Dark Matter
"Many researchers believe dark matter consists of WIMPs, weakly interacting massive particles, perhaps 500 times heavier than protons. Theory predicts that when two WIMPs collide, they annihilate each other and release gamma rays with specific energies.
[Prof. Tomonori] Totani and team found exactly that signature in Fermi telescope data, gamma rays with 20 billion electronvolts of energy forming a halo structure extending toward the galactic center. The shape matches theoretical predictions for dark matter distribution. The energy spectrum matches WIMP annihilation models and the frequency of collisions falls within predicted ranges. Crucially, more common astronomical phenomena can't easily explain these gamma rays. Other known sources don't produce this energy signature in this distribution pattern."
This is a really great demonstration. I want to do it myself. Unfortunately, I think if I did, I'd make a mess in the kitchen and waste a lot of flour. So I guess I'll leave it to the geology classes.
I truly just learned about this. In the battle that broke the siege of Vienna by troops of the Ottoman Empire in 1683, the largest calvary charge in history took place.
Initially, the siege and the battle that ended it might have seemed a huge mismatch: supposedly the Ottomans had 180,000 troops against a defending force of 15,000 or so. But a relief army was raised from Poland and surrounding countries/fiefs/kingdoms/whatever the social borders were back then, and the Ottoman troops were unreliable (the Tatars), sick (disease killed a lot of them), and sick of sitting in the summer heat while besieging Vienna (thus, a lot of desertions). So the battle wasn't as much of a mismatch as the initial numbers might have indicated.
You can read more on Wikipedia -- The Battle of Vienna. There are probably several military history sites in the Webiverse that have detailed descriptions, too.
So, about the charge. The battle that broke the siege culminated with a charge of 18,000 calvary troops, which induced the final retreat of the losing Ottoman side.
Below is an artistic depiction of the battle. There are many. There's even a movie! But I don't think it's easy to find for viewing. The trailer is on YouTube, though.
If you look in the Lighthouse Directory, in the section on the Philippines, there are a lot of sections for all the different provinces and islands of the country. I've featured a couple, but there are a lot more, so I'll have a few more this year.
Starting with this one, which is in the Batanes province. That's a small group of islands, well north of all the other islands, about halfway between the Philippines and Taiwan.
To find the location, just click here. But don't trust the map, look at the satellite image instead. You'll see why.
Speaking of the Lighthouse Directory, it tells us this about the Sabtang Lighthouse (also called the Sabtang North Lighthouse, as it says in the title.
"2006. Active (?); focal plane unknown; two red flashes every 10 s. Approx. 18 m (56 ft) round rubblestone tower with lantern and gallery. The tower is unpainted; the watch room and trim are painted white and the lantern red. ... An adjoining rubblestone cottage had not been completed as of spring 2007; evidently the funds to complete the cottage ran out. A 2011 photo shows the cottage finally roofed .The light was not accepted by PCG [Philippines Coast Guard] until December 2022."
The pictures are below. It does look different.
OK, at least I think it's real. A gigantic star sapphire (and if you watch the video, the star is much easier to see).
Put it this way: it's the size of a baseball. I used the Google calculator to determine it is just over 1.5 pounds.
Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has been with actor Jason Statham for years, and they have two children born into their relationship in that time.
As has been written about numerous times, they're engaged but haven't gotten married, and they've been in that state for years.
I assume that the all the legalities regarding the kids have been taken care of.
So some couples don't have to get married to validate their relationship. I get that. Same goes for Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, apparently.
But still, when you've got it this good and you don't think that's going to change, why not seal the deal officially?
She's repping Marks & Spencer lingerie, by the way.
OK, smell, odor, fragrance, bouquet, aroma ... well, what we're talking about is a new perfume, eau de toilette, or something like that -- model/supermodel Bella Hadid is the spokesmodel and brand developer for Orebella. Actually, it is rendered ‘Ôrəbella, when I copy it from the official website.
I'll have to find a perfume store somewhere to sample it. The main reason I'm writing about it is that the Daily Mail had an article about it with several pictures of Bella.
She looks very great, despite the ongoing battle she has been experiencing with Lyme disease.
Feel free to look at the photos of Bella in the article. Below I have another example from the campaign. It's good to see her looking well, and I bet she smells great, too.
I recently found out about an immersive exhibition that is or was in London (it might be closing soon). It is entitled "The Last Days of Pompeii", and from what I've seen of the video, which I have of course provided here, it gives an immersive experience of what it could have been like to be in Pompeii when Vesuvius went Plinian.
That means when it had the massive eruption in AD 79 that buried Pompeii in ash and Herculaneum in a pyroclastic flow, preserving the buildings, art, floors, and even some of the people for posterity.
I'd like to see this exhibition, but it doesn't look like it's scheduled for the USA at this time.
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The Discoverer Blog (and newsletter) has a lot of advertisements, but it does offer some interesting material. It regularly does lists, such as the one I'm featuring here. I have to admit, their lists catch my attention, which is clearly what they are intended to do. I end up checking out my home state and other states I'm familiar with.
So this one is about natural springs.
Must-See Natural Springs in All 50 States
So, first inquiry, have I visited or seen any of these?
No, but I've been near four of them. (Maryland, Wisconsin, Hawaii, and New Mexico)
Second inquiry, which one would I like to visit?
The one that really caught my attention was Norris Hot Springs in Montana. The Discoverer Blog describes it like this:
"Montana boasts several excellent hot springs, and the most popular is Norris Hot Springs in the southwest part of the state. The 1200-square-foot pool is drained every night and cleaned without chemicals so it can refill with hot mineral water naturally by morning. Adding to the appeal here is the natural garden and the live music each weekend, Friday through Sunday, which can be enjoyed even while still soaking in the medicinal waters. There is a campground here and a bar and grill featuring organic and gluten-free choices."Website: Norris Hot Springs
I've seen a few. When I was young, there was a Blue Hole in Castalia, Ohio that I liked. It's closed to the public now. And I've been to Yellowstone National Park, which has numerous hot springs, and it's hard to choose one in particular. I didn't climb the hill to get a good look at the Grand Prismatic Spring, likely the most famous. Crested Pool was intriguing.
But I've also been to Florida, and I've seen several of the springs there, which aren't warm or hot springs, but which are really beautiful. I've had the fortune to see both the developed attractions and some undeveloped springs in the more rural areas. Peacock Springs was great.
However, the most impressive springs I've ever seen are the ones in New Braunfels, Texas, that feed into the Comal River. They flow fast and powerful.
This painting showed up as the background for a classical music piece I was listening to on YouTube. Now I can't remember the piece, but I did some research and found out who painted it, as well as a review of it.
However, there is still a mystery -- did it depict an actual event, or just a calamitous shipwreck that had no connection to reality? One can hope the latter, in which case no actual persons suffered and no ships were lost (as well as treasure).
Read about it here: Shipwreck in a Rocky Inlet by Carlo Bonavia
Actor/TV host Joe Manganiello, who is very commonly pictured carrying a little puppy, has also been frequently pictured with his new bride-to-be, Caitlin O'Connor, also an actress at times, and a host, and a model.
She's been pictured out shopping for wedding dresses while not wearing a bra (the Daily Mail likes to point things like that out).
I featured Caitlin in a post a couple of years ago. At the time, she was with a different partner, and they took some quite intimate, but tasteful, pictures together. After the shower (first babe of 2019)
I think Joe has good taste. He was married to Sofia Vergara, which helps solidify that suspicion.
