Heavy Metal The singer of a KISS cover band caught on fire in the middle of a show and kept playing Thom Dunn

toy Party every day with the KISS inflatable tongue Rusty Blazenhoff

music Green Day to Chili Peppers: Artists rally for fire-ravaged Los Angeles Mark Cerulli

cheese Finally, an erotic thriller about sexy were-cheese Thom Dunn

music Machine Girl meets Game Boy: an 8-bit photo gallery Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets You'll get double the fun with Minecraft Java and Bedrock, now just $20 for both! Boing Boing's Shop

fundraisers Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift to host livestream fundraiser for indie rocker Matthew Sweet Jennifer Sandlin

music Listen to the first new The Cure song since 2008 Thom Dunn

television Famed TV host Phil Donahue dead at 88 Rob Beschizza

batman A radical unlicensed queer comic book movie returns to theaters Thom Dunn

Guided by Voices interviewed on their 30-year-old EP that became a cult classic  Lee Keeler

bruce springsteen The enduring power of Bruce Springsteen's music: a fan's journey Mark Cerulli

Games Lego Fortnite has an island of cats, and I am here for it Gail Sherman

parody Watch obscure Sesame Street characters perform Bruce Springsteen pastiche "Born to Add" Jennifer Sandlin

mschf Art collective MSCHF re-stocks its WD-40 cologne and adds a new scent to its collection–"Smells like Fabuloso" Jennifer Sandlin

tabloids World War III starts (yet again) and RFJ Jr is not RFK, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

hollywood How a New York artist gave birth to James Bond's 007 logo Mark Cerulli

politics Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, who complained of "over-educated women," calls for Congress to investigate the woman Federal judge presiding over Trump's trial Rob Beschizza

gadgets HP covers printer's USB port with warning sticker to make sure you don't go right ahead and use it Rob Beschizza