‘Can mice throw up?’: Before there was Google, there was the New York Public Library
A few days ago, the New York Public Library uploaded an intriguing picture to its Instagram account. The picture was of a torn and tattered…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 12/2014
Five merry & macabre Ralph Steadman Christmas cartoons from way back in 1957
Ralph Steadman‘s path to the splattered and hyperbolic cartoons that went so well with the gonzo journalism of Hunter Thompson was neither short nor straightforward.…
The Ho Ho Horror: Patton Oswalt’s amazing ‘Rudolph’ meets ‘Apocalypse Now’ parody
I can vividly remember growing up and watching those Rankin/Bass holiday specials every year. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Rudolph’s…
Meet Afghanistan’s answer to Bruce Lee
I love this guy. He realized he looks a lot like Bruce Lee, who died in 1973, and decided to make the most of it.…
Scatman Crothers scats ‘Stanley (Does It All),’ a ditty he wrote about Kubrick
One of the best things about being Stanley Kubrick would be that people like Scatman Crothers, who played Dick Hallorann in The Shining, would just…
Hawkwind’s ‘Galactic Tarot’ deck, 1971
A couple of weeks ago Arthur’s Jay Babcock tweeted that he had stumbled upon a fascinating two-page Hawkwind spread while “trolling thru the online International…