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You know, it’s not just people that wear costumes on Halloween–you filthy humanist!–cars, vans, buses and motorcycles gotta get their “trick or treat” on too. And we’re not just talking about the dog-mobile from Dumb & Dumber, there are innumerable real-world examples of vehicles dressing up as other things (no, not Transformers). Cool Material has [...]

We like that new technology is bringing the rest of the world up to European advertising standards, which go with the “If it’s pretty it doesn’t need to make sense” principle. Increasingly, commercials for products big and small, from every corner of the planet, are doing simple concepts with slick visual style, like those in [...]

We’re still working on a Halloween costume (yes, we always push this to the last minute), but we’re thinking the best way to go about the decision might be to see what the experts wear. By experts, of course, we mean people who wear costumes every day: superheroes.
As it happens, ComicsAlliance has just the listicle [...]

As we plan our Halloween costume for this year we’re starting to think that maybe instead of doing a whole outfit, we might just choose one accessory that instantly redefines the rest of our wardrobe, making whatever we’re wearing a costume. At first we thought that a sword might be the best way to achieve [...]

Well, it’s officially Halloween week, and there doesn’t seem to be much point in being stingy with our Halloween listicles, so we’re giving them out by the handful now. First off, we’re loving Joy Hog’s listicle of Saturday Night Live’s Top 10 Halloween Sketches, and since we’re still working on a costume, we especially appreciated [...]

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 [...]

Clayton Moore, the actor who played the iconic TV Western superhero The Lone Ranger, would have been 95 today had he not died in 1999. In celebration of his work as one of the most American of the early superheroes (The Lone Ranger first appeared in 1933 as a radio program, then later as a [...]

70 years ago (give or take a few days) that more-than-a-little hallucinatory musical journey from the Midwest into a fairytale, The Wizard of Oz, first opened on the big screen.Funny story: the film actually premiered in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where most of the pre-drug trip pre-tornado scenes were filmed. Because we can never quite get enough [...]

Comic-Con 09 happened recently, and while much of the coverage (as far as we could tell) was devoted to attractive women in cosplay costumes, the annual extravaganza of all things nerd-tastic had plenty of poorly costumed attendees too. Just look at Costume Pop’s hilarious listicle of 12 Costume Fails from Comic Con, like this fella [...]

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 [...]