Universal Music Group is auctioning off a percentage of the royalties to three Michale Graves-era Misfits records: American Psycho (1997), Famous Monsters (1999), and Cuts From The Crypt (2001). The royalties include… Read the rest of the article: You can own a piece of the royalties to 3 Misfits albums

Mitch McConnell is terrible. I've known this for a long time, though it probably first came to my attention personally after his open commitment to making Obama a "one-term president,"… Read the rest of the article: Two great deep-dives mine the endless hole at the bottom of Mitch McConnell's inhumanity

I don't know anything about the context here except that Topeng Monyet — forcing macaques to wear human clothes and ride bicycles for entertainment — is a somewhat-common practice in… Read the rest of the article: A very angry macaque monkey on a motorcycle tried to steal a human child in Jakarta

Someone beat Hemingway's challenge by a single word. pic.twitter.com/qtgzYo2zkK — mugrimm (@mugrimm) April 29, 2020 Top image: JD Hancock / Flickr (CC 2.0)

Twenty Thousand Hertz is a very cool podcast hosted and created by Dallas Taylor that explores the stories behind iconic sounds — from cartoon voices to tape reel mastering to… Read the rest of the article: Where did the laser sound in STAR WARS come from anyway?

I've had a busy few weeks of moving and renovating my home in the middle of a pandemic while also trying to work a full-time. So naturally, I decided to… Read the rest of the article: Here are some songs about unions and workers' rights, to raise money for COVID-19 relief funds

Nastaran Mohit is the organizing director of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents more than 24,000 journalists and media workers in the US and Canada. I've met her through… Read the rest of the article: It's International Worker's Day, so here's a look at a day in the life of a labor organizer

Every time I go back and watch an episode of Dinosaurs, I realize just how far ahead of its time it was (See: "What Sexual Harris Meant." Also the series finale.)… Read the rest of the article: That time Tim Curry played the Devil on an episode of "Dinosaurs"

MAGA world is very up-in-arms about some newly unsealed court documents involving the case of Michael Flynn, the US Army Lieutenant General and former Trump national security advisor who pled… Read the rest of the article: Newly released documents show that the FBI used standard FBI tactics on Michael Flynn

In 2018, I was commissioned by Civic Ensemble of Ithaca, New York to help devise and write a new play based on their ReEntry Theatre Program — a free arts… Read the rest of the article: Watch a video of my prison and opioids play "Streets Like This," performed by actors who have all dealt with incarceration

Soundwaves Art is the brainchild and handiwork of Austin-based visual artist Tim Wakefield, who creates digital prints based on the visualized waveforms of popular songs. For example, here's one made… Read the rest of the article: These cool prints are made from the soundwaves of songs, and the sales help COVID-19 charities

The other day on Twitter, I asked people about their favorite weird 90s anthropomorphic animal-hero cartoons, for another project I'm working on. Someone skipped past the "animal" part of this… Read the rest of the article: Check your fear and get in gear — the VAN-PIRES are here!

I've successfully talked myself out of buying a hollow-body telecaster to add to my already-too-large collection of stringed instruments. As difficult as it's been at times, I have still managed to… Read the rest of the article: How to build your own working electric guitar out of LEGOs

I'm simultaneously disappointed and relieved that her dad cuts her off before the climax of the song.

I've never had to knock on wood, but after watching this, it makes me wonder if I could.

Video game designer Sos Sosowski has been working on his Mosh Pit Simulator game since 2016. Here's the official game description: Mosh Pit Simulator is a VR game about a… Read the rest of the article: This VR Mosh Pit Simulator game is fascinating and horrifying

From the Washington Times: Two Texas women were charged last week after an undercover police sting found they were allegedly offering salon services at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Laredo police said… Read the rest of the article: Police sting operation busts an "illegal" nail salon

Pentagon confirms that the guy from Blink-182 was right about UFOs. Unless he's a patsy.

I'm a huge fan of GiveDirectly, who does tremendous work with direct cash transfers for people in poverty — essentially, micro-scale experiments in Universal Basic Income, with long-term data impact… Read the rest of the article: Raising money for a UBI fund that helps families affected COVID-19

From Ars Technica: Late on Sunday night, SpaceX completed a critical cryogenic test of a Starship prototype at its launch site in South Texas. […] The vehicle, dubbed SN4—which stands… Read the rest of the article: Be like a SpaceX rocket in quarantine: pressurized yet chilled and not exploding