a bloody good time Home blood typing kits – family fun! Mark Frauenfelder

deaths Horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu dead at 88 Rob Beschizza

politics Speculation Trump's "mystery cuts" are syphilis (video) Jason Weisberger

Comics Dwellings is like Lynchian horror as a Saturday Morning Cartoon Thom Dunn

quentin tarantino Django Unchained at 10: an observation and celebration of the first hour  Lee Keeler

heists Watch this new heart-pounding edit of last year's South African armored car heist Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids "Monster Meghan" and "TV's most-hated host" star in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

sideshows BBC guest talks about important stuff while penis salutes us in the background Carla Sinclair

anime Netflix's CASTLEVANIA show is so much better than it has any right to be Thom Dunn

putin Putin just demonstrated how a leader can constitutionally lock himself into power forever Thom Dunn

canada Never Trust a Nation Séamus Bellamy

racism Catherynne Valente schools her racist neighbors about the asylum seekers in their midst Catherynne Valente

comeuppance Man doesn't realize that a woman he threatens is a UFC fighter, who pummels him but good Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Buskers are the only performers making money at the Edinburgh Fringe. Here's how. Mat Ricardo

death Nicaragua's Ortega says everything's fine while protestors continue to die in the street Séamus Bellamy

fake news Royal assassins, JFK assassins, and Ronan Farrow character assassination, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

novels Interview with Ken Follet about forthcoming 3rd book in Kingsbridge series: A Column of Fire Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Anthony Burgess's lost, incomplete slang dictionary re-discovered Cory Doctorow

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

tabloids National Enquirer thinks Trump is almost too smart for his own good Peter Sheridan