Afflictor: Exchanging sharp looks with that arrogant acrobat--you know the one--and his two jackass sons since 2009.
- Classic DVD: The Passenger (1975).
- Old Print Articles: Oscar Wilde gets dissed on Long Island (1882) + Ragged urchin steals from slot machine (1891) + Hungry Joe, king of bunco (1889) + Wife leaves twine merchant, takes furniture (1899).
- Featured Video: Monkey waiter wearing lady mask + Werner Herzog profiles televangelist Gene Scott (1980) + Andy Warhol dines on Burger King (1982) + Early Steve Jobs TV appearance + Robot marathon in Japan + Los Angeles Love-In (1968) + Helmet shaves man’s head + Girl with orange on LSD + Robot orders scone in California + Flesh-eating furniture + A four-year-old in Haight-Ashbury (1970) + Estonian punk choir sing-along + Pet hippo uses the kitchen + British man thinks he’s standing on hen’s eggs (1974) + Boarding a train in Myanmar + Artist Holton Rower makes colors flow + Whitey Ford and Salvador Dali commercial (1970s) + Ginormous touchscreen in the Netherlands + Robot made from balloon and coffee grounds.
- Classic Photographs: NYC elevated train goes off the tracks (1905) + Final NYC horse-drawn carriage (1917).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Butt plug in “good condition” + You give me enema, I give you stuff to sell on eBay + Someone’s ragging on Dan Callahan + Performance artist with poitive outlook needs trampoline + Selling jumpy rhino iguana + Collecting weird crap + Selling clown painting + I need a box of bricks.
- A shocking exposé about the Lyman Family cult (1971).
- Richard Preston profiles the eccentric NYC math geniuses, the Chudnovsky brothers (1992).
- Future futurist Ray Kurzweil plays the piano on TV (1965).
- Detroit needs a RoboCop statue.
- Inventor and sci-fi legend Hugo Gernsback predicts the future (1963).
- New Journalist Grover Lewis recalls his parents’ gruesome death.
- The dark side of Washington D.C. party clown the Great Zucchini.
- Nutjob Arthur Jones revolutionized the exercise industry.
- Ron van der Ende’s hyperrealistic wooden sculptures.
- Calvin Trillin profiles police reporter Edna Buchanan (1985).
- Bob Dylan refuses to answer a question (1966).
- Happy 164th birthday, Thomas Edison!
- An 1898 note about doll hair.
- The greatest work of Jacob Riis.
- The colorful graveyards of England.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.