Jessi Buchanan is a Georgia artist who takes all the normal obsessions of an average American boy — lawn ornaments, corn dogs, giant mutant koalas with laser-beam eyes — and… Read the rest of the article: Jessi Buchanan, mystery artist

The best part of this story from TimesOnline, about the "therapeutic ringtone" craze currently seizing Japan, isn't the fact that there are ringtones that allege to adrenalize you, ringtones that… Read the rest of the article: Therapeutic ringtones sweep the nation, or at least a nation

(Today's post inspired by the ghost of Andy Rooney.) Don't we get to have our cheap movie clichés anymore? The well-shod feet walking away in the rain… the lonely figure… Read the rest of the article: Thanks, advertising, for ruining another cherished movie cliché

If you're an epochal historical figure you are in some sense going to be all things to all people, and it stands to reason that some of those people will… Read the rest of the article: Bad paintings of Barack Obama

The SS United States is the fastest, sleekest ocean liner ever built, a giant gem of midcentury design and engineering, and in the brief time it spent on the high… Read the rest of the article: America's flagship headed for the scrapyard?

Famed New Yorker cartoonist Syd Hoff drew cartoons for The Daily Worker under the nom de plume A. Redfield. Author and archivist Jeff Kisseloff (he wrote, among other books, The Box,… Read the rest of the article: The Kisseloff Collection: a one-man museum of 20th century ephemera