Afflictor: Trying to figure out what the people want since 2009.
- Shocker: The Pope getting all crunk and nasty.
- Classic DVDs: Pickpocket (1959) + 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993).
- Old Print Articles: Monkey given elaborate funeral in Brooklyn (1895) + Hanging devolves into block party in Queens (1875) + Exhumed body found to contain poison (1892).
- Featured Videos: Horrifying Baby Laugh-A-Lot doll (1971) + Pan Am TV commercial (1959) + Policewomen movie trailer (1974) + Herpes video for teens (1996) + Taxi Driver as a rom-com + Humanzee–the human chimp.
- Recently Posted on Craigslist: Teenager needs PT job + Give us your personal journals + Buy my toolbox or U R a dickhead + Looking to buy the good caviar + Let’s gossip about Gypsies.
- Classic Photographs: Houdini disappears an elephant (1918) + Prodigy plays pool at Grand Central Station (1966).
- Marshall McLuhan predicts genocide in America (1969).
- Bob and Carolyn Box become unlikely pioneer software hackers.
- The Scopes Monkey Trial revisited.
- Luc Sante sifts through NYC’s past.
- Life magazine looks at the biofeedback craze (1972).
- Saul Alinsky predicts the Tea Party (1972).
- Werner Herzog “compliments” Fred Astaire.
- New York Times‘ Notable 100 Books of 2010.
- Gleaned: Edward Lasker’s Chess Strategy (1960).
- American youth rebels after WWI.
- Bob Eckstein announces new comedy website.
- The perils of scientific mistakes.
- Miscellaneous Media: Hotel Taft postcard (1939).
- Modern Thanksgiving holiday is birthed in NYC (1850).
- Happy Thanksgiving, Afflictor readers!
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.