Kooks

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…

The Orlando Sentinel reported this morning on a Florida candidate for U.S. Senate, Augustus Sol Invictus, who has admitted to killing a goat and drinking…

There’s really not much to say about this fantastic painting of Divine and John Waters taking the place of the old prairie couple in Grant…

I can’t remember the last time I was able to muster a level of passion and excitement over any particular thing or activity that would…

Chubby Checker, born Ernest Evans, holds a place in rock history as the man who popularized “The Twist,” a song originally a minor hit for…

Despite the fact that I was a pretty sports-averse youth, growing up in the eighties and nineties, it was basically impossible to avoid having a…

Here’s a truly strange tale about Cleveland guitar madman turned Jesus freak madman, Glenn Schwartz. Schwartz, a blues guitar virtuoso of whom Jimi Hendrix was…

If one writes anything mean/true about Ayn Rand on the Internet, invariably the author will receive a litany of howling complaints from her fans (people…

Sometime in the 1940s or ’50s, a dentist named Dr. Joseph Stamp started forming a tooth-filled concrete block at the corner of Riverside Drive and…

A hobby can be an essential activity for relieving stress. Everyone should have one to clear their minds of the day’s tension and strain, whether…