patents Eddie Van Halen once filed a patent for a "musical instrument support" with some awesome artwork Thom Dunn

movies It looks like Sacha Baron Cohen is going to play Marvel's Mephisto Devin Nealy

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

marvel Marvel's Blade just lost its director Devin Nealy

fearmongering The bogus Satanic Panic is returning. Here's a look at the original purveyors of myth — Chick Tracts Jennifer Sandlin

halloween Bring back the Halloween tradition of throwing cabbage at people Thom Dunn

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Delightful Creatures Celebrations from Elephant Country, by renowned elephant scientist Caitlin O'Connell and author of the new book, Wild Rituals Boing Boing

tabloids Queen ends sham marriage, JonBenet's devil cult, and killer vending machines in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

baking Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher's lamp Gina Loukareas

happy mutants The Black Ghost: superhero noir comic starring an antiestablishment vigilante and a hacktivist sidekick Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher

jellicle cats come one come all I love TS Eliot and Andrew Lloyd Weber but the 'Cats' trailer scares me Jason Weisberger

Entertainment Comics legend Stan Lee dead at 95 Xeni Jardin

happy mutants William Gibson interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies Cory Doctorow

restaurants Outback Steakhouse is a chain of Satan David Pescovitz

Entertainment The Death of the Exorcist Richard Kaufman

gop The Minnesotan left-wing economic miracle continues, while neighboring Republican states slowly collapse Cory Doctorow

assholes Canadian candidate sorry for peeing in coffee cup Mark Frauenfelder