Afflictor: Celebrating the Fourth of July with the most perverted-looking Uncle Sam on Earth, since 2009.
- Recent Films: Somewhere + Another Year.
- Old Print Articles: Oystermen and their troubles (1887) + British-born burglar plies his trade in NYC (1901) + Everyone dresses like a baby at a D.C. party (1912).
- Classic Photograph: Carrying the dead from the General Slocumb (1904).
- Featured Videos: Hospital etiquette for clowns + Norman Mailer and feminists meet in Manhattan (1971) + Chimpanzee playing violent video games + BBC interview with J.R.R. Tolkien + Robot that shoots pool + Russian trash television + Dan Sandin, computer graphics hippie + Coke’s Bicentennial TV commercial + Foam letters float over Germany.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I am a horrible person who judges everyone’s appearance on the subway + Who’s that chick with the studs in her neck? + I think someone will buy my insane screenplay + Willing to take your porno, even the really bad stuff that you should not even have + Looking to buy some old-fashioned underwear + Working typewriter wanted.
- Catching up with Renée Richards 35 years after she rocked the tennis world.
- A 1982 New York Times article that accurately predicted the digital revolution.
- Jonathan Franzen complains about cell phones.
- In 1961, the Bowery mourned a movie theater ticket seller named Mazie.
- The inventor of Sea-Monkeys had ties to Aryan supremacists.
- A 1958 New Yorker profile of fashion photographer Richard Avedon.
- Do ATM machines use sound effects?
- Chuck Close discusses his work on local NYC television in 1978.
- MIT is building mind-control helmets for mice.
- Looking back at the 1995 Tokyo subway terrorists.
- Movie-theater chains trying out a Netflix pay model.
- Youth Culture hits the skids in 1971.
- Peter Falk and friends talk to Dick Cavett in 1970.
- An 1893 map that depicts the Earth as square and stationary.
- Carl Sagan was a big pothead for about 45 years.
- Homo Erectus was an imbecile who repeatedly made the same mistakes.
- David Foster Wallace looks at the nexus of literature and television in 1993.
- The Wild West stage shows that presaged Hollywood.
- Afflictor Nation: Crowning a champion in June.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.