‘A Christmas Story’ leg lamp string of lights
Probably the most memorable from scene from a A Christmas Story is the infamous leg lamp. Now you can decorate your entire tree (or string…
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Listen to Paul McCartney’s ‘lost’ experimental Christmas disc for his fellow Beatles from 1965
Christmas 1965, Paul McCartney secretly recorded an “album” at his home in London as a present for his fellow bandmates John, George, and Ringo. There…
The Internet, now in book form: LiarTown
LiarTown USA (or just LiarTown, for short) has been, since 2013, a consistent source of Internet comedy gold, all springing forth from the warped mind…
There’s a book of ‘beautiful’ (but strictly unauthorized) poetry by Donald Trump and it’s a hoot
Apparently, Donald Trump has unwittingly produced a book of poetry. Not just your run-of-the-mill rhyming couplets or iambic pentameter, but short sentences artfully clipped from…
Greedheads, preying priests and oligarchs: The politically-charged surrealist paintings of Ole Fick
‘Red Alert.’ You may have heard of Postman Pat or rather, “Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat and his black and white cat.” If you…
Shirley Temple’s brutal death metal rendition of ‘On the Good Ship Lollipop’
Shirley Temple, “America’s Sweetheart,” on the cover of the sheet music for “On the Good Ship Lollipop,” which sold over 400,000 copies in its day.…
Porn-optical illusion: Suggestive collages of sex and architecture (probably NSFW)
The question is often asked by our dear readers as to why some images are pixelated on social media? “We all got nipples,” they might…
That time Francis Ford Coppola wrote John Lennon about ‘Apocalypse Now’
The writer and director Cameron Crowe recently tweeted an impressive piece of pop culture history. It was a photograph of the correspondence between Francis Coppola…
CB Action: (Apparently) CB radio wasn’t just for sad, lonely middle-aged men?
Okay, I’ll admit it. Everything I know about CB Radio comes from that episode of Family Guy where Peter Griffin sat naked in his basement…
One for the Road: Street photographs of drunk Japanese people
Tokyo-based photographer Lee Chapman has been documenting life in Japan for almost two decades. Originally from England, Chapman went to Japan on a one-year work…