Via gnat: The Rev. Ivan Stang, founder of the satiric Church of the SubGenius, is running an online course called “Running Your Own Cult: Dos and Dont’s.” Best quote: “At the end of the course, students will have designed and developed their own religious cult to the point of marketability.”
Via plep: A virtual gallery of the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Some nudity, in case you’re at work.
I like this one a lot (it almost seems Pre-Raphealite). Maybe I need to do a Medusa-related post at some point?
Yes, yes, I think they could be.
whywomenhatemen.blogspot.com
psychoticlettersfrommen.blogspot.com
Definitely not for work reading due to profanity, nudity, juvenile commentary and sheer awesomeness.
Super-douchey: Should your wife have guy-friends?
Helpful and awesome: A guide to LA’s best taco trucks
“Everything can be as interesting as every other thing. My subject is the American Protestant small town middle class. I like middles. It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. ”
-John Updike (1932-2009), interview with Life magazine, 1966
If you like Updike, here’s the interview from which the above sentiment (one oft-quoted [...]
Eight years worth of Onion articles about George W. Bush. This one, written just prior to Bush’s inauguration, is particularly worth reading.
Dr. Martin Luther King, class warrior and radical
My friend Chord called this to my attention:
In Pictures: America’s 10 Most Boring Cities [1/15/09: link is now fixed]
I’d like to point out that the tenth boring city in the country is my hometown, and that I taught in the ninth most boring city for six years. I’m pretty sure that Misty lives in [...]
Maoist propaganda posters are OK, and Soviet Constructivist posters are pretty damn rad (and the continuing influence of these two styles of art was apparent pretty recently). But image for image, nothing surpasses the unsettling and sublimely beautiful aesthetics of Polish movie posters.
Polish movie posters
More Polish movie posters
Yet more Polish movie posters
Sweet Jesus, more Polish [...]
Wikipedia article on “Mozart and Freemasonry”
Claude Debussy, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion
How the Illuminati influenced Beethoven
A painting of Beethoven as a David Icke-ian, Illuminati lizard man