Afflictor: Making monkeys pay for their lives of crime since 2009. (Image by Frank Wouters.)
Dear Readers: Sorry there were fewer posts and less original writing this week. Just very busy. Things should return to normal next week.~Darren
- New DVD: Videocracy.
- Old Print Articles: Young dandy hits on burlesque performer, mayhem ensues (1897) + Eccentric mocks judge in Brooklyn courtroom (1885).
- Man Ray photographs Marcel Proust’s corpse.
- Miscellaneous Media: Jim Otto 1965 Football Card
- The strange second life of late novelist David Markson
- Jezebel sheds light on the Craigslist Adult Service fiasco.
- 100-year-old retired doctor and composer discusses his incredible life.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I purchased a bloody couch + This divorce case really happened.
- Featured Video: Creepy robot pet from 1989 + Dog confused by escalator + Drug dealing parrot arrested.
- Images of the California Gold Rush.
- The NYC Department of Sanitation has an Anthropologist-in-Residence.
- Excerpted: Woody Allen discusses the aging process.
- Afflictor Nation: Looking for traffic from North Korea.
- Economist Tyler Cowen defends liberal arts education.