Distracted by the quotidian, we oft forget some crucial details of our past: the time we wore that brown turtleneck, or when our 12-year-old cousin sported an insane curly weed bud ponytail a la Roberto Baggio. But to defeat this miasma of forgetting and regret, along comes a funny Italian guy who can set all our worries aside and save our forgotten photos from the accidental flooding of our cellars or the spontaneous combustion of our family albums. Then he takes all those pictures and puts them up on a thing you've already seen called Sexy People, which we brought to your attention a while ago. Usually these kinds of projects dry up faster than a pet newt you forgot to water while on a three-day bender, but nope, not this one. We decided to ask him a few questions and take a dive in a pool of secretarial sex-appeal circa 1978 and adolescent despair.
Mike Sacks is a guy who writes funny things for different magazines and put together a blog on his site of pictures he's taken off his TV. (He's either got Tivo or the quickest shutter finger of all time or has missed out on a mountain of insane shots to have built up the collection of zingers he's got.) Most of the pics are little chucklers from commercials or the local news but about halfway down the stack is this still from the all-time greatest episode of A&E's Intervention that ever aired. Did you ever see this one? The video stream from A&E's site is pretty wonky, but we guarantee it is worth dealing with the trainwreck of a player to watch this trainwreck of a Californian family. It is easily the strongest indictment of shitty West Coast parenting since River's Edge.
Have you ever liked a record so much you wanted to eat it? Well, we may have found your new favourite restaurant. Obacchi Jacket Lunch Box specialise in sculpting perfect copies of record sleeves using bento box ingredients. Just imagine the painstaking effort it takes to craft these musical meals; the delicate seaweed scalpel work, the millimetre-perfect application of egg noodles, the risky glaze of soy sauce...
Uncle Dirty is an 86-year-old former bodybuilder who spends his days watching TV, making model trains, and creating DIY porn. Oh, he also sews his own thongs, which he stuffs with various objects and parades on the beach (until the cops ask him to leave). Despite these disturbing antics, Uncle Dirty is really quite endearing, mainly due to his devotion to Auntie Alga, his 91-year-old, mentally handicapped wife. See photos.
Ever since they helped us write the Special Issue, the How's Your News? gang have gone from strength to strength. They've just started recording a new six-part TV series and they're blogging all about it. They were just in Las Vegas covering the Miss America pageant and interviewing Sly Stallone. Next week they'll be playing at South by Southwest, so if you're in Austin try to look them up.
It's rare enough running across anything online these days that hasn't already been blogged and re-blogged and linked to and forwarded to you by one of your parents at the bottom of a bunch of pictures of funny car crashes and served as the template for literally caboodles of depressingly unfunny parodies, but something that hits the obnoxious-web-riff trifecta of sexual fetishes, antiquated hobbies, and photoshop humor and doesn't even show up on Google? How is that even possible?
Christian Lander is like the Jacques Cousteau of caucasians. His blog, Stuff White People Like, offers the most accurate analysis of
middle class crackers available on the internet. We dropped in on him to poke fun at honkies (it's cool, I'm white).
Japanese kids somehow manage to offload the shittiest bits of their pop culture on to us while keeping the best stuff for themselves. While we're stuck playing Pokémon cards, they've only gone and invented the best game in playground history. It's called bug fights and it's such a huge craze that certain beetle species are becoming endangered because of it. Our friend Kyle Benzle has taken the radness of bug fights and poured awesome all over it. His website, Japanese Bug Fights, pits powerful, exotic insects against each other in a terrarium. Turns out watching a praying mantis trying to kill a giant hornet is one of the most compelling things you will ever see. We asked Kyle to tell us a bit more about insect cage-rage...
Jon hates the face he makes before he yawns. He also hates small talk with taxi drivers and being involved in audience participation. These and other amusing morsels of misanthropy are discussed on Jon's blog, 1000 Tiny Things I Hate. Bits of his list lit up our black hearts with mutual bile, but then he said he hated Halloween, which made us want to kick his whiny ass.
Uncle Dirty is an 86-year-old former bodybuilder who spends his days watching TV, making model trains, and creating DIY porn. Oh, he also sews his own thongs, which he stuffs with various objects and parades on the beach (until the cops ask him to leave). Despite these disturbing antics, Uncle Dirty is really quite endearing, mainly due to his devotion to Auntie Alga, his 91-year-old, mentally handicapped wife. 
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