If you got a lot of Halloween loot you’ll be happy to know that nobody can stop you from eating as much as you want today: it’s National Candy Day! Somebody was thinking synergistically when they scheduled these two days so near each other. We’re going to take this opportunity to think about candy in [...]

Earlier this month (October 2) we celebrated National Denim Day by wearing nothing but clothes made of denim (even denim underwear, which you’ll find below). For Lee Jeans, who started the national day of celebration in 1996, it’s a day to raise money for breast cancer research, but for us it’s also a day to [...]

On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]

If you’re at all familiar with the recurring jokes and comic tropes of the best sitcom pre-AD (Arrested Development), you’ll know that one of Seinfeld’s less well-known but still delightful pleasures are Kramer’s (Michael Richards, yes, that one) entrances into Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment. To illustrate their subtle comedy, some seriously nostalgic person has assembled a [...]

Advertising tends to be a devil’s advocate sort of device, convincing smart people to buy things they shouldn’t (Coke, candy, over-priced clothes) by appealing to some of their most basic desires. This scenario is made especially literal in the sorts of ads featured in mental_floss’s listicle of 8 Angel Vs. Devil Commercials, our favorite of [...]

As you may have noticed, we’re big fans of nerdy costumes. And though we’d never thought of basing a costume on the likeness of an actual video game console, perusing Unreality’s listicle of 15 Video Game Console Costumes, well, we started to think that we’d have picked an Atari joystick or a Dreamcast controller for [...]

While we generally find emoticons silly and pointless and another, rather terrifying example of how digital communication is fast reducing our ability to express genuine, complex emotions in actual words (maybe even sentences!), some of them make up for whatever semantic damage they may do with sheer creativity. Such is the case with a small [...]

Cartoons these days are pretty complicated–weird Japanese creatures, kids with dangerously spiky hair, a comic taste for wacky non-sequiturs. Things got so out of control that we stopped paying attention, like, two months ago. We pine for the simpler times of decades past, when shows were clearly terrible or brilliant (and never confusing). Most of [...]

Obviously, the famous Got Milk? campaign is one of the most effective advertising slogans ever, all the more so because of its meme compatibility–that is, anyone can make a “Got x?” shirt/poster/sign and people will get the reference. The California Milk Processor Board is hardly the first advertiser to harness the power of question slogans, [...]

Today is Name Your Car Day, a truly ridiculous occasion that we can only hope will soon be replaced by Name Your Bike Day (ours is called Kandinsky). In the meantime, though, we kind of appreciate the idea of treating cars like boats and giving them names, it makes something so hard and mechanical a [...]