eighties New Order's 'Blue Monday' but played on 1930s instruments Rusty Blazenhoff

david bowie David Bowie grills MTV about their failure to play videos by Black artists in this 1983 interview Janelle Hessig

drugs New documents released about the US government's secret LSD mind-control program Allan Rose Hill

television Archer + Bob's Burgers and the other weirdest crossovers in TV history Allan Rose Hill

gadgets Mecha Comet is a handheld everything machine Rob Beschizza

science fiction Dark sci-fi genius wrote at superhuman speed — Barry Malzberg Ellsworth Toohey

public domain Racist Tintin to enter public domain in 2025; you'll have to wait a while longer for woke Tintin Rob Beschizza

christmas Flying fairy toy takes a fiery detour during present unwrapping time Popkin

olympics The 1904 Olympics Marathon gold medalist won while hallucinating on rat poison and brandy Ellsworth Toohey

star wars This Huttese cover of an 80s new wave hit is perfection Gail Sherman

Weird Cabbage Patch riots: the chaotic holiday toy craze of 1983 Popkin

music Machine Girl meets Game Boy: an 8-bit photo gallery Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

sports New world record: balancing on a slackline between hot air balloons Popkin

History Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, dead at 96 Rob Beschizza

drugs Watch all the versions of the world's greatest PSA Gail Sherman

Comics Frank Miller is releasing a sequel to RONIN Thom Dunn

1980s 80 songs from the 80s, performed by members of Magnetic Fields, TMBG, and more Thom Dunn

pop music A playlist of every "Now That's What I Call Music" compilation Thom Dunn

book reviews Alan Moore's new whimsical, wonderful, and wordy novel Thom Dunn