Please enjoy "Bambi Meets Godzilla" (1969) by American-Canadian filmmaker Marv Newland. The film is included in The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals, a 1994 book edited… Read the rest of the article: When Bambi met Godzilla
Ruben Lopez rode 2,500 miles from Poo Poo Point in Issaquah, Washington to Pee Pee Creek in Pike County, Ohio. He embarked on the adventure to raise money for humanitarian… Read the rest of the article: Long ride from Poo Poo Point to Pee Pee Creek
Stuttgart, Germany-based stunt cyclist Viola Brand performs a lovely bicycle ballet "To be honest I was afraid of breaking the chandelier while doing the pirouettes," she writes.
Who the hell are these people? The US Library of Congress's Moving Image, Broadcast and Recorded Sound Division shared several dozen photos of mystery people in its collection and is… Read the rest of the article: US Library of Congress needs help identifying the people in these photos
Myka Meier, 38, is an etiquette instructor and kickboxer. On Monday while on a walk with her young daughter in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, Meier tangled with a ninja who tried… Read the rest of the article: Kickboxer/etiquette teacher fights off ninja on Manhattan street
The great Mark Lanegan—deep-throated vocalist for Screaming Trees and The Gutter Twins (with Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli)—is releasing a Christmas album. Titled "Dark Mark Does Christmas," the LP includes ten… Read the rest of the article: Mark Lanegan releasing a Christmas album
May the Farce be with you.
Kurzgesagt's latest "In a Nutshell" animation asks "Is it too late to stop climate change?" From the video: We have known for decades that rapid Climate Change is being caused… Read the rest of the article: Animated explainer: "Is it too late to stop climate change?"
Helen Reddy, the Australian-American singer and activist who famously co-wrote and sang the 1971 feminist anthem "I Am Woman," has died at age 78. The song was informed by Reddy's… Read the rest of the article: Helen Reddy, singer of "I Am Woman" (hear me roar), RIP
Ten years ago, Scientific American put together a list of their favorite apocalyptic plots from fiction and film. The grouped them by category, like astronomical catastrophes, war, geophysical disasters, machine-driven… Read the rest of the article: A guide to science fiction pandemics and other apocalypses
The UK's Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, home to the National Parrot Sanctuary where the public can re-home pet parrots, has temporarily removed five newly adopted parrots from view because the birds… Read the rest of the article: Parrots who swore at zoo visitors removed from public view
French Kindergarten teacher Sylvain Helaine, 35, has full body tattoos and recently had the whites of his eyes inked black. He says that last year, the parents of a three-year-old… Read the rest of the article: Man with full body tattoos and inked eyeballs banned from teaching kindergarten
US dentists report a big increase in cracked teeth since the pandemic. Stress triggers bruxing (teeth clenching and grinding) which cracks teeth and breaks fillings and crowns. From CNN: For… Read the rest of the article: Dentists report spike in cracked teeth likely due to pandemic stress
On Sunday night in Brooklyn, New York's Prospect Park, a fellow was spotted dragging two big trash bags filled with live eels to the lake there and dumping the animals… Read the rest of the article: Mystery man dumped more than 100 live eels into lake in Brooklyn, New York park
During the 1980s in La Honda, California, a tree-filled community in the Santa Cruz Mountains, kids would frequently report sightings of The Shaved, monkey-like creatures they'd spotted in the hills.… Read the rest of the article: Could the descendants of LSD-dosed monkeys from the 1960s still be swinging in La Honda, California?
Nathan Apodaca, lifestyle guru. Much more of his happy shenanigans here: @420doggface208 And here's a Mitú story on Apodaca from last year. (via the Groove Merchant)
The policy at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park is that if you find a diamond in the 37-acre eroded volcanic crater, its yours to keep. Since he was in… Read the rest of the article: Man finds 9 carat diamond at state park
Many artists have covered Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." In 1982, enigmatic Japanese post-punk musician Kiyoaki Iwamoto truly made the song his own. From the description of the… Read the rest of the article: This 1982 Japanese punk cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is perfectly restrained aggression
On Saturday, police in Richmond, California just north of Oakland detained around 60 individuals wearing "black uniforms" and gathered on Point Molate, a historic city-owned dock near a Chevron refinery.… Read the rest of the article: SF Bay Area police detain "cult or activist" group and find "four-foot model of a vagina"
Devon Garnett of Tampa, Florida and his buddies were watching the Stanley Cup final hockey game on Wednesday night when things got exciting. "Shoot! Shoot!" yelled the fans at the… Read the rest of the article: Police respond after man repeatedly yells SHOOT!…. during a hockey game on TV
