From Cowboy State Daily: Since 1980, 63 bears have been killed along a stretch of rail line that goes over Marias Pass and the Great Bear Wilderness, according to reports from… Read the rest of the article: Dozens of drunken grizzly bears have been killed by trains in Montana

My immediate reaction upon learning of the existence of God, the rod, and your child's bod: The art of loving correction for Christian parents, a Christian parenting book by Larry… Read the rest of the article: "God, The Rod, and Your Child's Bod" is somehow worse than it sounds

The Texas Observer has an absolutely harrowing story about Timothy Murray, an 11-year-old currently in fifth grade in the Brownsville Independent School District. This time last year, Timothy won the… Read the rest of the article: School locks 11-year-old Texan boy in solitary after he asks for grief counseling

In early October, a pig named Kevin Bacon — yes, really — escaped from his home in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and took off on a bender. As WCAX3 explained: Kevin… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Bacon the Pig lured home with Benadryl after 3 week bender

For all of George Lucas's corny storytelling tendencies, I do have to give the man credit for this: at no point in any of the Star Wars movies does anyone… Read the rest of the article: STAR WARS supercut of every time someone says "Star" or "Wars"

Bandcamp United — a group of Bandcamp workers from various parts of the company who legally voted to unionize — has filed an Unfair Labor Practice violation against Songtradr, which… Read the rest of the article: Bandcamp Union files Unfair Labor Practice violation against new ownership

Don't you ever wish you could just bury your head inside of a giant armored shell fused to your spine, and block out all the horrors of the world? Well,… Read the rest of the article: Escape the stresses of life with this wearable human-sized Anxiety Turtle Pillow

The American Prospect has a fascinating if harrowing new report on the cyclical violence of the finance sector. It goes like this: public employees invest in pension funds, which are… Read the rest of the article: How private equity firms use public pension funds to screw other workers

Heritage Auctions just listed a uniquely fascinating piece of American pop history: the original black-and-white artwork from Rob Liefeld's 1996 Heroes Reborn cover featuring Captain America with, erm, a very… Read the rest of the article: Rob Liefeld's infamous big chested Captain America artwork is up for auction

Bridgewater, Massachusetts is a town of roughly 28,000 people on the South Shore of Boston. It is the home of the Bridgewater Triangle, which has been called "one of the… Read the rest of the article: Boston reporter and soap opera star try to find the elusive Bigfoot of New England

King Richard's Faire is the largest Renaissance Faire in New England. It was originally founded in 1972 by concert producer Dick Shapiro, whose family still runs the operation to these… Read the rest of the article: Renaissance Faire workers are organizing to overthrow their exploitative king

In the sixth episode of the 80s television show Police Squad!—which later developed into the Naked Gun film series—the shoe-shining informant known as Johnny is seen taking a bribe from… Read the rest of the article: Dick Clark asks Johnny the Snitch to explain ska

Over at Pitchfork, writer Jayson Greene offers a pretty fascinating look at both the appeal, and the shortcomings, of using text-to-music LLMs such as Google's new MusicLM. In a lot… Read the rest of the article: What happens when you use music reviews as prompts for AI generated music?

Legendary comic creators Matt Wagner (Grendel) and Kelley Jones (Batman: Knightfall) have just announced that they'll be combining their notoriously brooding talents for a new graphic novel take on Dracula.… Read the rest of the article: Sneak Peek at the new Dracula prequel comic from Grendel creator Matt Wagner and Batman artist Kelley Jones

Father Jaromir Smejkal, the local parish priest in the Czech town of Kurdejov, has not been feeling that Halloween holiday spirit. According to the BBC, Smejkal took it upon himself… Read the rest of the article: Czech priest apologizes after smashing pumpkins

A recent Wall Street Journal article — an actual article, in the workplace/lifestyle section, not even an op-ed! — laments the recent trend of horrible, lazy workers who, umm …… Read the rest of the article: Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days

In 2022, Marvel Studios released a Werewolf By Night film direct to Disney+. While it does ostensibly fit into the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe, Werewolf By Night mostly felt like… Read the rest of the article: Disney re-releasing Werewolf By Night in color

Compiled by YouTuber Todd In The Shadows, who apparently keeps a perpetually updated list of "stop" songs. Here's the criteria used to decide which stops actually qualified for the supercut:… Read the rest of the article: Supercut of pop songs that stop when someone says the word "stop"

Over at The Guardian, Frida Garza has a delightful new piece examining the graphic design marketing aesthetics of gentrification. Which really just a fancy way of saying: why the fuck… Read the rest of the article: Analyzing the typeface trends of gentrification

In the official Star Wars novel Aftermath, author Chuck Wendig has a delightfully clever chapter written by from the perspective of Admiral Ackbar, recontextualizing the Mon Calarami military leader's most… Read the rest of the article: This Erotic Admiral Ackbar action figure is sadly not a trap