Summer is clearly over early this year (at least that’s the way it looks in New York these days), and just like we did our annual bathing suit shop a few months back, now we’re thinking about our annual umbrella shop. We’re going to start by consulting mental_floss’s listicle of 10 Weird and Wet Umbrellas, [...]

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Nerf, invented by intrepid toy creator Reyn Guyer. In lieu of an actual Nerf battle (although it’s tempting), we’ve rounded up some of our favorite ads by the foam gun manufacturers. They weren’t always in the arms business, though, as you’ll see with the first couple entries in our [...]

Let’s pretend for a minute that Nike doesn’t manage to pay its spokespersons more than their sports salaries and spend hundreds of millions because it pays a developing world labor force slave wages, and just enjoy the sheer visual splendor (and, often, musical complexity and sly humor) of their commercials. For instance, before perusing Complex’s [...]

Remember astronaut food? You know, those weird dried-out vacuum-packed foods they sell at science museums that are supposedly like the stuff astronauts in orbit have to eat? We always suspected these were actually designed as an early tactic for weeding out children with space travel aspirations who clearly weren’t up to the challenge. As in: [...]

Granted, the summer is basically over (we know, we know, so sad, right?), so checking out killer T-shirt designs isn’t exactly season appropriate anymore. On the other hand, right about now is when all those stylin’ Ts are going to go on sale, so we recommend perusing the sexy and stylish threads featured in Fishgun’s [...]

Every so often we wake up feeling pretty lousy, and nothing sounds more appealing than pulling on the absolute most functional item of clothing there is and slinking into the office and hiding behind a pile of press releases until we can drag ourselves back home again. Fortunately, we often resist this urge and simply [...]

The 42nd President of the United States of America celebrates his 63rd birthday today, perhaps you’ve heard of him? William Jefferson Clinton managed to remain one of the most popular Presidents during his time in office despite certain unmentionable scandals, and has only become more beloved since. After leaving office he single-handedly gentrified Harlem, and [...]

There’s a great deal of perverse pleasure to be taken from ruining the endings of movies. That pleasure is heightened when the film in question takes great pains to provide a twist ending, like, say, Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Citizen Kane, Soylent Green, Psycho, or the office favorite The Usual Suspects. All these [...]

In principle we disapprove of eating domestic animals. In fact, until our confused cow Chester died when we were eight, we refused to eat beef. Dogs, horses and turtles, meanwhile, are still very much off-limits. However, on occasion we come across an adorable little cutie who’s so sweet  we just want to eat her or [...]

A good friend of ours once went to Chinatown to look for a cheap, fake Gucci purse. After some searching she stumbled into the back of a store where beautiful fake handbags hung from the ceiling like stalactites growing from a cave roof in a calcium-rich mountain range. She bought an imitation Gucci purse, proud [...]