Much as we’d all like to be casting $1,800 varnished masterpieces, there are a whole lot of rods people can get a hold of without taking out a third mortgage loan. Some are perfectly suitable for delicate trout fishing, while others would feel more comfortable in an urban industrial park, or i...

The stereotypical skeptic / true believer discussion is one with the true believer insisting that something is real while the skeptic denies it. The true believer sees or experiences something remarkable and the skeptic is the wet blanket saying it couldn't happen. The skeptic insists it's impossibl...

The residents of North Devon, England don't know what to make of the fanged creature found on a local beach. Seal? Sea lion? BEAST OF EXMOOR, PERHAPS? The Beast of Exmoor is a black big cat, a puma or panther maybe, believed by some to have eaten sheep and farm animals in the 1970s and into 1983, wh...

this is the longest i have every worked on a post. had many a big belly laugh going through  the last year of the bliz. a lot of new loyal readrers and a lot of continued love (and content) from some of the old timers. so much love. observe and respect yourselves. january first we checked out ...

Oh what a year it was! We had some big, boffo posts, primarily about monsters (Cruise, Palin, O'Reilly and Montauk). Yay for riches. Enjoy! #1 - The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried to Suppress #2 - Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk #3 - Sarh Palin's Personal Emails #4 - Top Ten...

by Claudine Zap Top of the Buzz to you. Montauk monster (+570%). The mystery monster — part dog, part fish, all hoax? — has made it to the big-time with a cameo appearance in a Brazilian car commercial. Private jet (+428%). Sagging Wall Street economy be damned — there are just some things cod...

Saturday. This is the day the Lord set aside for good people, like myself, to point out and mock horrible people, like Steve Guttenberg. In churches and other holy sites, it is known as Asshole Fuckface Roundup day. In a perfect world, there are no Asshole Fuckfaces and the movie Twilight was never ...

So it's happened: the Montauk Monster has sold out. This Brazilian Volkswagen ad purportedly features a "dogfish," but its true identity is clear. You've come a long way, Monty. Video proof after the jump: [via Adfreak]...

The 2008 Park Slope 100: 100 stories, 100 ways of looking at the world, 100 inspiring people, places and things. The list is in alphabetical order. There are no repeats from last year. There are always serious omissions. I left two slots open for latecomers. The link above is the list's very own blo...

After causing over 21 million dollars in damage to the large hadron collider with their clandestine experiments in September, Cell 144 is releasing the first images of the fruit of those labors, object 144:12. (more detailed image here) This image was taken during our recent convergence in Massachus...