Have you read Slate’s fascinating (and relevant) article on what happens when doomsday prophecies fail? You totally should! 70’s Italian collage super cosmic action fun times! Victorian alert: Peter Pan in…
Do you dog-ear the pages of your books? Photographer Erica Baum sees dog-eared pages as more than placeholders. In her new book, Dog Ear, she photographed dog-eared pages of mass-market…
“Literature isn’t a 6-year-old dyslexic girl who has to be drilled on the difference between b’s and d’s and p’s and q’s. Literature isn’t weak. It’s strong. It isn’t given.…
Not to be confused with the walk of shame: SlutWalks are a rising movement to draw attention to the culture of blaming the victim in sexual assault cases. The first…
What is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics,…
Take a look at the list of banned words at New York magazine under former editor Kurt Andersen. (via) The Rapture didn’t happen, but Maud Newton’s 40th birthday did. The…
According to the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl website, the first ever organized game of American Football has been played on the African continent, between a Mexican team, the CONADEIP All Stars,…
Vaughan Bell at Slate runs down some history on what happens to doomsday cults and the like when their prophecies about the end of the world don’t come true. It’s…
GM is upping its production of Volts because of increased demand. Remember when bailing out GM was going to be a disaster? What will the end of the Space Shuttle…
So Rapture Day is here. Is anyone missing? I’d make fun of these people, but I can’t top what they’ve done to themselves. Daniel Nester asks what unions have ever…