halloween Costco releases new life-size motion-activated punk rock skeleton Thom Dunn

halloween Man recreates Capitol Insurrection with plastic skeletons for Halloween Thom Dunn

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

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

tabloids Fauci and Royal Nazis in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Spoken Word with Electronics 'Nay, Nay!' Hear the 1960's Stranger-Danger Ballad "Patch the Pony" Turned Into a Halloween Horror Soundtrack Ethan Persoff

deserts The terrible power of plastic is that it quickly becomes useless but never goes away Reanna Alder

happy mutants Read: Rescue, by Sarah Gailey Sarah Gailey

offworld Ride this surreal subway line to wonderful places Laura Hudson

The hands and minds behind The Boxtrolls Ethan Gilsdorf

Excerpts Dr. Mütter's Marvels: intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Entertainment Why Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion effects were more real than CGI Ethan Gilsdorf