‘Starring Frank Zappa as The Pope’ in Ren & Stimpy’s ‘Powdered Toast Man,’ 1992
Early in the second season of Ren & Stimpy, there appeared a rollicking and utterly disrespectful segment called “Powdered Toast Man.” 1992. The character of…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 03/2014
‘Juden Raus’: Nazi-era anti-Semitic board game where you deport the Jews
Who would have guessed that the Holocaust wouldn’t make for a perfectly peachy board game for the little German children of the Third Reich? As…
Will pole dancing robots put human strippers out of work?
So many questions. The world’s largest computer expo took place in Hanover, Germany, last week. It’s called CeBIT (Centrum für Büroautomation, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation), and…
The grooviest tarot deck ever: The Linweave Tarot, 1967
“Jupiter” and “L’Amoureux” In 1967 the Linweave Paper Co. was looking to promote its outstanding paper products, so they hit on a terrific promotional idea–publish…
Bills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches: ‘Bez’ of Happy Mondays is running for Parliament
Bez and his maracas It was reported on Monday that legendary “freaky dancer,” maracas player and alleged former ecstasy dealer Mark “Bez” Berry of the…
New Android app automates ‘attentive’ texts so your girlfriend will think you actually care
A few months ago DM brought you the expensive service guys could hire to fool their loved ones into thinking that they are involved in…