Afflictor: Enjoying the worst horror film ever, "The Bride of Lance Armstrong," since 2009. (Image by Tibbygirl.)
- Classic Film: The Truman Show.
- Old Print Articles: Milkmen bring death and destruction (1878) + Children play with pistol, tragedy results (1901) + Death penalty for a drug-store clerk (1901).
- Classic Photographs: Thaddeus Lowe, Civil War Aeronaut (1861) + Homeless Build Their Huts in Manhattan (1935).
- Featured Videos: For some reason, Dario Argento visits Joe Franklin (1980s) + Tom Snyder and Willard Scott reveal new tech items (1980) + James Baldwin debates William F. Buckley (1965) + William F. Buckley meets Huey P. Newton (1973) + Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag at the New York Film Festival (1969) + Walter Cronkite reports on the miracle of lasers (1968) + Clarence Clemons performing in Passaic (1978) + The groupie subculture + Tex Avery foresees the future of TV (1953) + Robert Rauschenberg on local NYC television (1977) + Robot that’s a mediocre artist + Air-conditioned clothing + Chinese vending machine sells live crabs + Rush hour in the bike-friendly Netherlands + Electronic cars with swappable batteries + Giant ant hill gets excavated.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Tropicana Light Fruit Punch tastes like crap + My life is great and so is Sade + Reporter not looking to win a Pulitzer + Forward me your break-up emails + I’m selling ponytails.
- Norman Mailer looks at American hero and erstwhile Nazi Wernher von Braun.
- For better or worse, BzzAgent is a stealth marketer.
- Suggested reading list by Donald Barthelme.
- Hunter S. Thompson reports on the Hippie movement in 1968.
- Stewart Brand credits Hippies for the rise of the Internet in 1995.
- David Remnick reports on Mikhail Gorbachev’s ouster in 1991.
- Did a brain tumor turn Charles Whitman into a mass murderer?
- Did Errol Morris’ brother help create email?
- Gay Talese was humiliated by a 1973 New York article.
- Project Orion rockets were propelled by A-bombs.
- Alan Turing would have turned 99 this month.
- People raised in cities are more prone to mental illness.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.