This Week: Don’t go outside
Tues | JUNE 24 A Long Beach man calls the cops to serve as witnesses to a local gas pump claiming to have dispensed seven gallons of gas—at a total of more than $30—to fill up his five-gallon gas can, shorting him by about $10. An investigation by the county Department [...]

This was an especially terrific Christmas and not just because I finally got the Lee Van Cleef box set I’d been asking for all year.  No, what made this Christmas so great was I never had one of those nightmare parking experiences at the mall you normally expect during the holidays.
I was happy. Of course, [...]

Catch them while you can
A Wednesday trip to the Naples canals to view the famed Christmas displays yielded a few interesting sociological notes: A) Self magazine was right—women here are mizzzzerable, as every single woman who passed our little group pouted even while holding her boyfriend’s hand. So even the chicks with dudes are unhappy! [...]

If you caught Heavy Metal Vomit Party last month at Koo’s (or our interview with him), you could not have missed Skullphone’s ten foot tall silkscreens debuting his line of gilded — and glittery — ornaments. As it turns out, I am currently the proud owner of one of said ornaments. And as the only [...]

Nevermind that the U.S.S.R. was supposed to be a godless state–folks knew how to make some Christmas cards.
(Via BoingBoing)

Good Morning Pups!
I know this can be a very stressful time of year and it’s important to keep things in perspective, so I’d like to offer these words of some comfort and wisdom, courtesy Prof. Hubert Farnsworth:
“Everyone’s always in favor of saving Hitler’s brain, but when you put it in the body of a great [...]

Keith Dobbins plays Santa for the money and the kids. Also, he’s a Parrothead

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
The last time Keith Dobbins met Santa Claus, the fat man was handing him socks. For a kid growing up in Pitt Gas, a coal mining town located along the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania, socks were a practical [...]

Southern California Christmas at its best.
Via the Junk Food Blog

Putting the Big C in Christmas
Attention holiday shoppers: can’t decide between toys larded with lead and toys coated with a date rape drug? Well, now there’s another option: a toy that gives the gift of lung cancer. And it’s the perfect present for kids who want to be David Caruso when they grow up (assuming [...]