film Patti Smith 'Horses' concert documentary announced Rusty Blazenhoff

poetry Beat poet Michael McClure, RIP David Pescovitz

music Disco diva Gloria Gaynor posts ""I Will Survive" handwashing video David Pescovitz

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

science fiction Beautiful boxed set of two Octavia Butler novels Mark Frauenfelder

books Out today: a two-volume, slipcased edition of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, introduced by Gloria Steinem and Toshi Reagon Cory Doctorow

racism School security guard asked student to stop calling him the n-word. So the school fired him. Rob Beschizza

facebook Facebook Dating launches because nothing matters Xeni Jardin

corruption The #ShellPapers: crowdsourcing analysis of all correspondence between Shell and the Dutch government Cory Doctorow

b-side Texas judge told a jury that God personally told him that a sex trafficking defendant should be acquitted Mark Frauenfelder

law Judge tells jury to acquit accused sex trafficker because God said she's innocent David Pescovitz

politics Jeff Bezos’ investigator suspects 'a government agency' intercepted Amazon CEO's text messages Xeni Jardin

News Michael Cohen secretly taped Donald Trump talking about paying off Playboy model Karen McDougal over sex claims Xeni Jardin

drugs Smoke some shoes? The DEA's list of slang terms for cannabis David Pescovitz

christ what an asshole Ajit Pai: portrait of a Vichy nerd who transformed from debating-society darling to thin-skinned, brooding manbaby Cory Doctorow

The Greatest Showman All the songs from The Greatest Showman, ranked Caroline Siede

idjits GOP Senate candidate says women have the right to make him a "home cooked dinner every night at six" Mark Frauenfelder

law God told judge to tell jury that defendant should not be convicted, so he did David Pescovitz

science fiction Interactive map of every Quantum Leap series jump Andrea James

movies Fan theory: in Home Alone, Kevin is dead Rob Beschizza