satanic Stryx, the too-good-to-last satanic '70s variety show Janelle Hessig

relics Why English spelling looks like it lost a bar fight with history Jason Weisberger

crime Shipment of 412,793 Kit Kat chocolate bars heisted in Europe Rob Beschizza

History Man spent 40 years perfecting a lettuce cigarette Ellsworth Toohey

art Paint your hands, grab some googly eyes, and make magic like Mario Mariotti Jennifer Sandlin

christian heritage sites The most incredible sculpture I've ever seen: The Chronicle of Georgia Natalie Dressed

thrift stores "Charley Varrick"— like a Steve McQueen movie but with a grumpy high school principal starring in his own fantasy Lee Keeler

half-eaten bananas Italy's far-right Prime Minister dumps her boyfriend to distance herself from his constant sexist comments Rob Beschizza

dogs Watch Jared Leto doing his makeup to match Tika the "fashionista Italian greyhound" Jennifer Sandlin

politics Italy's fascist, racist prime minister sues singer Brian Molko for calling her fascist, racist Rob Beschizza

david cronenberg Watch David Cronenberg's "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection" (2023), featuring four 18th-century life-size wax anatomical models Jennifer Sandlin

sausages This might be the best home-grown commercial on the entire internet Jennifer Sandlin

music Wax Italia: Digging for 45s in Florence and Rome Lee Keeler

tabloids Monkeypox is a Chinese bioweapon in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books The Metamodernism of Hanzi Freinacht Ferdinando Buscema

retro Remember that time a goose broke Fabio's nose? Devin Nealy

adventure What is a "Gilligan Hitch?" Mark Frauenfelder

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