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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:03 am Tue, Dec 1, 2020
    How flies are able to elude your fly swatter A green house fly

    Flies have a number of tools in their arsenal that have given them a perpetual edge in the battle against human-engineered fly swatter technology. The most fascinating is a set… Read the rest of the article: How flies are able to elude your fly swatter

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:10 am Tue, Dec 1, 2020
    The Cruising Diaries is a queer cult classic set in underground Oakland cartoon party scene

    I was honored to illustrate a brand-new expanded color edition of The Cruising Diaries, Whiting Award-winning author Brontez Purnell's hilariously unhinged and decidedly unsexy erotic memoir. If there is someone… Read the rest of the article: The Cruising Diaries is a queer cult classic set in underground Oakland

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:09 am Tue, Dec 1, 2020
    These elaborate cardboard forts for cats are a labor of love. Cardboard cat fort

    The good folks over at Sad and Useless have compiled this gallery of some of the most ambitious homemade cardboard cat forts I've ever seen. Some have elaborate turrets, others… Read the rest of the article: These elaborate cardboard forts for cats are a labor of love.

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:47 am Mon, Nov 30, 2020
    Family builds a rollercoaster in their backyard during shelter-in-place Backyard matterhorn

    Did you learn how to crochet during shelter in place? Bake bread? That's nice. Meanwhile, the LaRochelle family in Napa, CA were busy building a large-scale replica of Disneyland's Matterhorn… Read the rest of the article: Family builds a rollercoaster in their backyard during shelter-in-place

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  • Janelle Hessig
    4:45 am Wed, Nov 25, 2020
    Scotland just became the first country to provide free tampons and pads to all Tampon

    In an unprecedented show of support for women's and all vaginal health, Parliament unanimously passed a law this week granting all people legal right to free tampons and pads in… Read the rest of the article: Scotland just became the first country to provide free tampons and pads to all

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  • Janelle Hessig
    4:25 am Wed, Nov 25, 2020
    Video shows man wrestling alligator to save puppy Florida man saves puppy from alligator

    Florida man – what can't he do? A nature camera posted near a pond in Estero, Florida, captured the harrowing footage of Richard Willbanks, age 74, straddling an alligator and… Read the rest of the article: Video shows man wrestling alligator to save puppy

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:35 am Mon, Nov 23, 2020
    Sacred cows are skewered in this hilarious satire of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Jack Plotnick in drag as Disney artist

    You may never think of beloved artist Mary Blair the same after viewing actor Jack Plotnick's hilarious lampoon of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. In Plotnick's version of the… Read the rest of the article: Sacred cows are skewered in this hilarious satire of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

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  • Janelle Hessig
    4:42 am Mon, Nov 23, 2020
    Obsession is a shared virtue in the found footage series 'Museum of Home Video' on Twitch Fabulous puppet Madame with puppeteer Waylon Flowers

    Video curator Bret Berg has been slowly unleashing his 40+ terabyte collection of video oddities in a new Twitch series called Museum of Home Video. Produced by Jenny Nixon, who… Read the rest of the article: Obsession is a shared virtue in the found footage series 'Museum of Home Video' on Twitch

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:00 am Sun, Nov 22, 2020
    Platypuses: they're venomous, they sweat milk, and turns out they glow in the dark too. Three glowing platypuses

    In nature's coolest collage experiment, Platypuses are like the result of throwing together the leftovers from a bunch of other animals. They're the only mammal to lay eggs, they have… Read the rest of the article: Platypuses: they're venomous, they sweat milk, and turns out they glow in the dark too.

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  • Janelle Hessig
    12:00 pm Sat, Nov 21, 2020
    Humanoid pink poodles camp it up in Seth Bogart's 'Boys Who Don't Wanna Be Boys' video two studs hold up blinds in front of pink poodle humanoids and seth bogart

    Some things never go out of style, like pop music and being creeped out (turned on? I don't know your life) by prancing humanoid pink poodles. Hunx and his Punx… Read the rest of the article: Humanoid pink poodles camp it up in Seth Bogart's 'Boys Who Don't Wanna Be Boys' video

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  • Janelle Hessig
    4:55 am Thu, Nov 19, 2020
    Ride out the end of the world in Prince's tour bus Prince's 1984 tour bus

    You could go with a Mad Max aesthetic. Instead, why not ride out the end of the world in the very same bus that once transported Prince and the Revolution… Read the rest of the article: Ride out the end of the world in Prince's tour bus

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:16 am Sat, Nov 7, 2020
    San Francisco's most notorious strip club, The Mitchell Brothers O' Farrell Theater, closes its doors after 51 years Mitchell Bros O' Farrell Theater building

    The Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater might be the most storied strip club anywhere in the country. Certainly in San Francisco. Opening its doors in 1969, it almost immediately became ground… Read the rest of the article: San Francisco's most notorious strip club, The Mitchell Brothers O' Farrell Theater, closes its doors after 51 years

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  • Janelle Hessig
    11:49 am Sat, Oct 31, 2020
    Enjoy an old school Halloween horror marathon hosted by artist Skinner. Skinner in corpse makeup as horror host

    Of the many social activities that covid has taken from us this year, Halloween is an especially bitter pill to swallow. If you're looking for virus-free thrills from the safety… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy an old school Halloween horror marathon hosted by artist Skinner.

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:15 am Mon, Oct 19, 2020
    Meet the woman crafting monster schlongs for GWAR Margaret Rolicki and bat-tle axes

    Artist Margaret Rolicki is the Cynthia Plaster Caster of the prop fabrication world and the spiritual heir to Milicent Patrick's (Creature from the Black Lagoon) legacy. When not making her… Read the rest of the article: Meet the woman crafting monster schlongs for GWAR

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:58 am Mon, Aug 31, 2020
    Intricate paper cut style art made from leaves leaf cut out of a bunny family

    From grocery stores populated by anthropomorphic insects to an extraterrestrial encounter, each of lito_leafart's gorgeous paper cut style leaves invites us into a standalone narrative. The artist's bio shares that… Read the rest of the article: Intricate paper cut style art made from leaves

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  • Janelle Hessig
    2:39 pm Sat, Aug 29, 2020
    An artist fights to reclaim his character from the alt right in 'Feels Good Man.' pepe the frog movie poster

    Pepe the Frog emerged into this world as a happy-go-lucky amphibian whose life's purpose was to get high and eat pizza with friends in Matt Furie's Boy's Club comic. But… Read the rest of the article: An artist fights to reclaim his character from the alt right in 'Feels Good Man.'

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  • Janelle Hessig
    7:26 am Sat, Aug 29, 2020
    This "Karen" Halloween mask will have every manager cowering in fear. Karen Halloween mask

    Leatherface with a chainsaw or Karen with a cell phone – who really strikes fear into the hearts of men in 2020? This latex mask sculpted by artist Jason Adcock… Read the rest of the article: This "Karen" Halloween mask will have every manager cowering in fear.

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:30 am Tue, Aug 25, 2020
    A 30 year quest to contact aliens is actually a love story. John Shepherd with alien communication equipment

    A Michigan man transforms his grandparents' unassuming rural home into a module-stuffed control center dedicated to contacting alien life forms in the Netflix original, John Was Trying To Contact Aliens.… Read the rest of the article: A 30 year quest to contact aliens is actually a love story.

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:43 am Mon, Aug 24, 2020
    The Next World Tarot deck celebrates diversity in a dystopian future Next World Tarot deck

    In uncertain times, is it any wonder that more and more people are turning to astrology, tarot cards, and other New Age woo to find a sense of universal order?… Read the rest of the article: The Next World Tarot deck celebrates diversity in a dystopian future

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  • Janelle Hessig
    10:15 am Sat, Aug 22, 2020
    Buy your own roadside attraction: Wigwam Village Motel #2 is for sale Wigwam motel for sale

    Cave City, Kentucky's Wigwam Village Motel #2, a registered National Landmark as well as a culturally-insensitive remnant of roadside kitsch, is currently on the market for $395K. That's 15 conical… Read the rest of the article: Buy your own roadside attraction: Wigwam Village Motel #2 is for sale

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