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Beloved Warner Bros. character Bugs Bunny turns 69 today (his first appearance under that name aired on July 27, 1940), and what better excuse to watch some old WB clips? Technically, for the animation history sticklers out there, Bugs made three televised appearances before earning his name, so you could say that his birthday is [...]

On this date in 1848, Nicholas Porter Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey welcomed their son Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp into the world in the humble town of Monmouth, Illinois. Though many of his occupations (farmer, gambler, buffalo hunter, teamster) were less than thrilling, Earp entered the national Wild West iconography when he participated in the [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]