movies Barbara Gips, who wrote "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" tagline, dead at 89 Rob Beschizza
music Fantasy Park, 50 years on: BBC documentary about the greatest rock festival that never was Rob Beschizza
movies American Psycho director: "Wall Street bros" don't get that the story is "a gay man's satire on masculinity" Allan Rose Hill
politics Four years of MAGA surrealism and horror in one book: "It's the Great Storm, Tom the Dancing Bug!" comics by Ruben Bolling Boing Boing
parody Watch obscure Sesame Street characters perform Bruce Springsteen pastiche "Born to Add" Jennifer Sandlin
art Unearthing the bizarre connection between Devo and pro golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn
pop culture Rick Steves parody provides essential travel tips for the Shire, Endor and more Grant St. Clair