street art Street artist erects a giant pink penis in New York City Rusty Blazenhoff

statues There are 43 giant stone Presidential heads crumbling in a field in Virginia Thom Dunn

statues The last time a Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester, it was because of drunk college kids Thom Dunn

art Thomas Jefferson portrait recreated with distant descendant Rob Beschizza

science fiction Philip K. Dick: "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" David Pescovitz

movies Legendary comedian Carl Reiner, RIP David Pescovitz

arsenic Whole Foods' bottled water has "concerning levels of arsenic," says Consumer Reports Carla Sinclair

canada Americans are getting fined for goofing off in Canada Seamus Bellamy

typography The Butt Types: a bootyful typographical project for parenthesis in different fonts Thom Dunn

Sammy davis jr Watch Sammy Davis Jr. impersonate James Stewart and Laurence Olivier Mark Frauenfelder

Comics MAD Magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 Janelle Hessig

Little Richard Little Richard on discovering The Beatles — Dick Cavett, 1970 Mark Frauenfelder

music There's actually an interesting (and obsessive) story behind Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag" Thom Dunn

death The gory details of the whaling expedition that inspired Moby Dick Gareth Branwyn

britain British people proudly held a virtual knob-eating contest Thom Dunn

b-side Ferdinando Buscema and Erik Davis on our pandemic house of cards Gareth Branwyn

books Two far-out books about California counterculture reviewed by Erik Davis David Pescovitz

conspiracy theorists David Icke banned from Facebook Rob Beschizza

art This AI's only function is to draw penises David Pescovitz