frank kobola Cosmo writer tries male stripper lifestyle for a week Carla Sinclair

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

music Short documentary about famous live concert bootlegger David Pescovitz

History A Tangled Weave: when Louis XIV made owning calico cotton a crime Michael Skeet

Games You can make a Turing machine inside a game of Magic: The Gathering David Pescovitz

rpgs Deborah Ann Woll and Joe Manganiello talk about acting, roleplaying, and D&D's unique form of storytelling Gareth Branwyn

Dungeons and Dragons What's new in tabletop gaming (November edition) Gareth Branwyn

surreal estate All six Brady kids reunite at their TV home Rusty Blazenhoff

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

happy mutants 2017 Hugo nominees announced Cory Doctorow

Good times Jonathan Coulton's JoCo Cruise was mind-blowingly great Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies Cory Doctorow

interviews Interview with Timothy Leary archivist Michael Horowitz Lisa Rein

music Proof the Thomas the Tank Engine theme works with all rap Rob Beschizza

obits Mandy Johnson, 1953-2015 Rob Beschizza

Entertainment The Death of the Exorcist Richard Kaufman

V/H/S The best video store in the world carries only one movie Michael Borys

Kids In one take, this guy shows all the cool skills he learned in 2016 Andrea James

graphic novels Aleister Crowley and Adolf Hitler wage occult war in Doug Rushkoff’s latest Gareth Branwyn

picks Clinton advisor Podesta is a sex magic witch: Drudge Report via Infowars via Wikileaks (seems legit) Xeni Jardin