comedy Lou Reed's all-star comics band Gareth Branwyn

recipes Watch: an incredible song about why recipe blog preambles are so long Annie Rauwerda

comedy "Mouth Sounds" is an hour-long mashup / performance art tribute to "All-Star" Thom Dunn

movies Barbie tops Super Mario at the box office Rob Beschizza

How Les Sewing Sisters are tailoring a new sound in music Lee Keeler

books Interview: Joshua Mills on his upcoming Fantagraphics book about the late comedian Ernie Kovacs Devin Nealy

music Boring office workers perform epic orchestral tune on typewriters Thom Dunn

qanon Listen to some gems from QAnon: The Musical Jennifer Sandlin

improv everywhere Improv Everywhere spreads joy through spontaneous comedy Jennifer Sandlin

movies Jordan Peele's fourth movie is on the way Devin Nealy

music Bubbles covers David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World." Elías Villoro

jim turner Join The Good Deeds Corps for a holiday screening of 'ELF' hosted by Will Ferrell Jason Weisberger

bbc The Young Ones and the Fifth Housemate Elías Villoro

randy rainbow Trump is nostalgic for "yesterday" in a lock-him-up musical parody Carla Sinclair

music Watch the hyperkinetic frenzy of No Wave band The Stick Men on the TV show that helped inspire Pee-wee's Playhouse David Pescovitz

music Here's an audio pick me up from Judy Garland and Gene Kelly Devin Nealy

adventure What is a "Gilligan Hitch?" Mark Frauenfelder

exploitation films "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," co-written by Roger Ebert, now available on Internet Archive Mark Frauenfelder

music "The Theme For Spirit Halloween" is now an epic musical trilogy, and it's great Thom Dunn

Punky Power There was a Punky Brewster reboot we never heard about because it was on Peacock Jason Weisberger