comedy On this day, the comedy team of Martin & Lewis debuted Devin Nealy

art Drew Friedman's latest book: Shtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy Mark Frauenfelder

art Headless, bodyless sculpture of MLK Jr and Coretta Scott King's arms embracing has people talking Rob Beschizza

television Gangs of New York is coming to television Devin Nealy

movies Snoop Dogg continues to run side-quests in life by starring in Netflix's Day Shift Devin Nealy

UFOs Former Senator Harry Reid: Lockheed has crashed UFO debris but the Pentagon wouldn't let him see David Pescovitz

comedy Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes now has his own talk show Gareth Branwyn

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

LGBTQ Read this powerful essay about mustaches, Blackness, and masculinity. Thom Dunn

Boing Boing Gadgets Learn to play the piano, but not in that horrible after-school way you're thinking Boing Boing's Shop

Science Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled moon, dies at 88 Xeni Jardin

amusement parks Big dummies flew off Jersey Shore rollercoaster and crashed on hotel roof David Pescovitz

fake news Princess Di's killer, Burt Reynolds is a killer, and a killer milkshake, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

public archives A Studs Terkel Radio Archive will soon be public Jason Weisberger

books Rep. John Lewis' civil rights comic trilogy still at #1. Thanks Trump! Andrea James

Boing Boing Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2016 Gift Guide

gift guide Boing Boing's 2016 Gift Guide: Books Boing Boing

happy mutants George RR Martin's "Fevre Dream": the Lannisters as vampires Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Name your price for 11 (!) Philip K Dick award-winning novels Cory Doctorow

lemony snicket A Series of Unfortunate Questions for Daniel Handler Mark Dery