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“It’s a love tap compared to the Wu-Tang fist of fury...”
— Republican media consultant...

Mar 2nd

Dog vs. Dogbot: Crazy, Pinwheel-Eyed Research...

Mar 1st

The Long Duration Exposure Facility, a school-bus-sized...

Mar 1st

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“It’s three A.M. and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the...

Mar 1st

In the year 2525, if man is still alive and...

Mar 1st

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Now boarding: Southwest flight 2722 to a parallel universe.

Feb 29th

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Throwing Heat. Dick Gregory, who’s been a comedian for fifty years and made his bones in the...

Feb 28th

The Big Word Project.

Feb 28th

Patton Oswalt explains Jon Stewart's "Gaydalf...

Feb 27th

When The Metal Ones Come. Oh sure, they’re cute,...

Feb 27th

Getting a little meta here.

You hesitate to draw conclusions from evidence as anecdotal as this, but on the other hand: Hey, why...

Feb 26th

HuffPo: Clinton's Zidane Moment.

Feb 25th

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How I Spent My Birthday. (I’m the blonde guy.) 

Feb 24th

“(The writers’ strike) was a down time for me. I passed...”
— Steve Martin (“The Late...

Feb 22nd

HuffPo: Dem Debate Shocker... Everyone on...

Feb 22nd

Bookcase staircase. Imaginative use of space, in a...

Feb 22nd

Fantastic mockups for “The Autobiography of Susie The...

Feb 22nd

From the archives: Why every man, woman and...

Feb 22nd

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“Plastics used boldly.” Because if there’s one thing that threatens to dim the...

Feb 21st

Matchboxes (Chinatown, Los Angeles). I swear to God, these...

Feb 20th

"I wish every one of my columnists would SHUT...

Feb 20th

Your Heart Stops Right… Here. Give Jaunted some...

Feb 20th

Trib: R.I.P.

Feb 20th

There's good news and bad news about this...

Feb 20th

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Facebook, the snowglobe effect, and the awful power of the friend count. 

Feb 19th

A new feature: The Sunday Times...

Mom left me, dad left me, kids were mean to me, the world made me lie. New York, though: Yay!

Feb 17th

The Beachcomber Resort Motel. Just tell me you...

Feb 17th

The Dieline. “The web’s leading package design...

Feb 17th

US to world: "No, no, no, we're trying to...

Feb 16th

Fantastic matchbox art from the ’50s and ’60s. ...

Feb 16th

Pezlesque!

If you’re in or around the lovely city of Albuquerque, NM this weekend, my pal Steve...

Feb 15th

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“We won’t interrupt your phone calls.  Please don’t interrupt our movies.”

Feb 15th

“Stop right there. Can you pile all of those items into a...”
— Patton Oswalt, imagining the...

Feb 14th

Dark Roasted Blend rounds up a few of the many ways it was...

Feb 14th

HuffPo: Free Advice For The McCain Campaign.

Feb 13th

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“Dedicatory Piece To The Crew And Passengers Of The First Experimental Rocket Express To The...

Feb 13th

"Okay. Funny story."

Feb 13th

"A dark and narrow cinderblock hellhole."

Feb 12th

I want to make a cheap joke about this, but I don’t...

Feb 12th

Raymond Scott + Jim Flora = Bliss. (Hear a bit of...

Feb 12th

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”  Robert...

Feb 12th

To the dogs.

It’s Westminster Kennel Club time, which means two things: 1) Harried feature writers around...

Feb 11th

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America’s Flagship. The fastest, most beautiful ocean liner ever built, a midcentury-modern...

Feb 8th

“For every moment in ‘Knocked Up’ that makes you...”
— Kyle Smith.

Feb 7th

Most baffling quote of the day.

Something in her cool, bemused tone seems perfectly calibrated to an election whose stakes feel...

Feb 7th

"Mr. Romney, are you almost through? The CPAC...

Feb 7th

Live, now, from everywhere. Paradoxically, it...

Feb 7th

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Stan Warnow has been working on a documentary about his father, the great musical eccentric Raymond...

Feb 7th

“I’m sorry, I don’t talk to the press, and that...”
— Chelsea Clinton to a...

Feb 6th

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“Thank you for calling the Lawrence Welk Show. How may I direct your call? Producer of last...

Feb 6th

“Conan’s claims on Mike Huckabee could not go...”
— Jon Stewart and Stephen...

Feb 6th

Your swingin’ pad. Oh, believe me: It gets even...

Feb 6th

Covered in Flour! Just Back from Carnaval in...

Feb 4th

Bunker. One more stunning nighttime image from...

Feb 3rd

“You know, Comrade Debbie, speaking of the workers,...

Feb 3rd

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced...

Feb 1st

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Frozen Grand Central. A New York improv group sends 207 people into Grand Central, and at the same...

Feb 1st