parody The new season of pandemic parody HOME OFFICE puts the "fun" in funemployment Thom Dunn

christmas What if Tom Waits released a Christmas album? Thom Dunn

social distancing This groovy tune will help you pick your work-from-home outfits while in quarantine Thom Dunn

History Sid Caesar built the writers' room that taught Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen how to be funny Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

comedy Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime Grant St. Clair

History The turnspit dog was bred to run on a wheel and roast meat, then went extinct Ellsworth Toohey

music Watch an inebriated Bob Dylan troll a bored John Lennon about stealing "Norwegian Wood" Ruben Bolling

History A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Jason Momoa won't touch the Escape from New York remake Séamus Bellamy

art Watch the live Kennedy Center stream of Trump's name coming down (video) Jason Weisberger

books In 1932, John W. Campbell imagined machines outliving humanity Ellsworth Toohey

Republicans MAGA Mike is sneaking around your Social Security Jason Weisberger

History The Vietnamese monk who ate only coconuts and built a Coconut Kingdom Ellsworth Toohey

Technology What happens when the machine keeping you alive dies on vacation Ellsworth Toohey

books Her wedding necklace cost $75,000. She died guarding a worthless mine Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment Disney World's "Carousel of Progress" now to include progress Ruben Bolling

Space Blue Origin rocket explodes during Florida test Rob Beschizza

law CIA officer stashed 308 gold bars and $2m cash at home Rob Beschizza

Grandpa Pudding Brains pauses Memorial Day tribute to workshop a joke about dead soldiers named Donald Jason Weisberger