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The messy state of the fidget spinner craze.
Trump ratings boom undermined by a complete lack of class consciousness.
Gender roles and expectations in The New York Times and Eyes Wide Shut.
Forget 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale, read Ready Player One.
Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Its satire is as relevant as ever.
Outpost, like a tower in space.
He obsessively attacks Ricky Gervais on Twitter.
Failed modernist experimenter.
I once thought our popular culture had embarked on an unstoppable upward trajectory.
The Beatles kept inflating rock ‘n’ roll until it popped.
We really can't get into a situation in which races own images.
To quote Kid Rock, this is for the questions that don't have any answers.
She’s not me.
Always looking on the sunny side of the street.
Dedicated to the May 9, 2016, issue of People.
And there’s a Coneheads vibe.
Artist Terence Eduarte's "100 Days of Secrets" project, in which he draws odd portraits of friends and strangers alike, provided they tell him a secret. Via Neatorama.
NowThis has obtained the full screenplay of Bannon's never-produced '90s rap musical The Thing I Am, a remake of Shakepeare's Coriolanus set during the 1992 L.A. riots. Watch the table read here. Via The AV Club.
From artist Butcher Billy. Check it out at Behance. Via Boing Boing.
An installation by Zadok Ben-David, currently on display at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. The installation features more than 3,000 metal figurines, all of them from photographs Ben-David took while traveling around the world. Via Colossal. Design Milk has a short video.
Comedians Tom Allen and Spencer Kalendar pose as a couple of surfer bros to petition the San Clemente City Council to build a 12-foot-tall steel statue of Paul Walker. Via The AV Club.
Collages by Jolita Vaitkute, attempting visual representation of untranslatable words from various languages. Below, gattara, Italian for crazy cat lady (basically). More here. Via Boing Boing.
From Owen Cooper. Via Boing Boing.
Emily Guendelsberger recently photographed this "abandoned wasteland off the Taconic Parkway," closed since 2010. The AV Club has the full story.
