Eric says: "I just took this photo on the corner of Broad and Beaver Streets in FiDi, NYC. I am alarmed to consider what might be on the bill-of-fare if this is a delivery vehicle." Previously: Disney's coprophilic cookbook - Boing Boing...

Our pal Drew Friedman painted this great moment in freak history. This recent piece is a depiction of my old friend (and favorite artist) Robert Crumb presenting his original "Cheap Thrills" comic strip cover art to Janis Joplin, (with various members of "The Holding Company" lurking behind), backst...

On Saturday the Federal Communications Commission the Orange County Sheriff's department raided a pirate radio station called "Street Heat" that ran ads for gangs and provided information on where to get drugs and prostitutes. Police said 20-year-old Balthazard Senat's pirate radio station had illeg...

This is beautiful! I think it is from Indonesia. From the eBay listing: I saw this at the flea market and it was drawing so much attention, I knew I should buy it before it got snapped up. The hand tooling on this thing is amazing. It is covered with fancy designs and also heavy equipment, including...

"If Mirrors Could Speak" is a super creepy educational film from 1976 in which misbehaving kids are presented in clown make-up. In hopes of keeping kids' attention, social engineering films would often use supernatural elements to make their points. In this film, we see a magic talking mirror that r...

Thomas Leopold, a 42-year-old college professor principal wanted for downloading child porn is on the lam. He's especially dangerous, say authorities, because he underwent radiotherapy treatment for a thyroid condition before fleeing Britain. Judge John Price said: "Please warn officers that when he...

My unexpert analysis concludes that these photos of a 100-foot long river snake from Borneo are as phony as a politician's smile. Grainy images of a large snake in Borneo's Baleh River have some locals afraid the mythical Nabu snake is back. Is Borneo's 100-foot river snake—reported yesterday ...

Interesting to compare this film of Balinese life in 1910 with this video of London at around the same time. (Warning: video contains scene with topless people.) (via Filled With Chocolate Pudding) Previously: Mardi Gras, about 70 years ago, New Orleans LA. - Boing Boing...

The Ditmas Park blog has an interview with William Smith, the owner of Hang Fire Books, which deals in used and rare books of the high weirdness trash culture mutant variety. Hang Fire Books - what is it? Hang Fire Books is the name of my used and rare bookstore. I generally have between three and f...

In November 2007, Reason magazine's Radley Balko published a long investigative story on Steven Hayne, a doctor who for the last 20 years has done the vast majority of Mississippi's forensic autopsies. Critics say Hayne and his sidekick, "bite mark expert" Michael West, cornered the market by doing ...