Battle of the female sideshow freaks: ‘Spidora’ vs the ‘Headless Girl’
Circus banners for ‘Spidora’ and ‘Olga the Headless Girl.’ Originally conceived in the late 1800s by London-based vaudeville illusionist Henry Roltair and hugely popular at…
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Your pre-debate musical playlist inspired by Donald Trump!
Hey America! Here’s a wild Donald Trump-inspired playlist that all the hip kids are tuning into! I did an expanded version of this on my…
Christian fundamentalist group reveals what we already knew: Thom Yorke of Radiohead is EVIL!
Thom Yorke is EVIL! (not really). My DM colleague Tara McGinley posted about the unexplainable image of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke on the cover of an…
Florida man changes his name to ‘Kraftwerk’
The competition for the world’s biggest Kraftwerk fan just went up a notch–maybe three notches. A man in Florida posted a Flickr set depicting his…
Kooky lady convinced her toaster possessed by Satan
This classic example of WTF vintage television originally aired on The Today Show back in May, 1984. The “Richard” this lady keeps referring to off…
‘Filth is my LIFE!’: John Waters’ ‘Playdate’ with Charles Manson and Michael Jackson
John Waters’ sculptures of ‘baby’ versions of Michael Jackson and Charles Manson. Back in 2006, the multi-talented and wonderfully boundary-pushing director, author, screenwriter, and noted…
‘Fascist, psychopath, genius, madman’: Klaus Kinski, as Jesus Christ, loses his shit onstage
Klaus Kinski had the look of man of a man possessed–a cross between Iggy Pop and a comic book psychopath. It was a look that…
WOW: Disturbed Bible-thumper and her TWELVE KIDS stage anti-trans hate parade in Target store
An unidentified Bible-thumping halfwit and her–get this–twelve children shot cell phone footage of their cringey two-minute dumdum hate parade through a Target store and it’s…
Rocket Boy: Intergalactic space mercenary (and out of work porn actor)
A kind soul has posted a segment from my old British Disinformation TV series—which was on Channel 4 way back in 2000 and 2001—the one…
Apocalypse Then: Monsters, nightmares & portents from ‘Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs’
When Oliver Sacks was starting out on his career in neurology, he noted that many of his colleagues never seemed to read or make reference…