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Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog is best known for his obsessions with the monumental issues of human existence: technology, art, beauty, death, the unforgiving brutality of nature, and the exploration of the unknown. But he also considers—and complains about—the banality...

There's something familiar about Trump. The hair. The self-importance. The misogyny. The up-failing ways of a man given too much status and too little grey matter. He bears a striking resemblance to Futurama's Zapp Brannigan, a character creator David X. Cohen has...

If you're a Neutral Milk Hotel fan, you're familiar with Jeff Mangum's dreamily, occasionally pleasantly almost-monotone voice and simple acoustic guitar riffs. You've swayed to "Two Headed Boy" and probably have some kind of late nineties coming-of-age memories with "King of...

We had great ambitions for this post. Then thought: you know what? Fuck it. Who needs this anyway? We're knocking off early for some burgers, some beers, a few laughs. Yeah, fuck it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9U5Fu4v2k

More Americans are smoking weed than ever, or at least they’re being more honest about it. Thirteen percent of U.S. citizens currently smoke marijuana, according to a new Gallup poll. That figure has nearly doubled since 2013, when just...

Have you pronked today? How about having a good stot? The verb "pronk" comes from the Afrikaans verb "to show off," and "stotting" derives from the Scots and Geordie verb meaning "walk with a bounce." Alpacas and llamas do it,...

In this rare David Bowie footage uploaded by YouTuber Nacho Video, he sings “Cracked Actor” from the 1973 album Aladdin Sane, during the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour. This is Peak Bowie: Clutching a skull, he swoops and sways with a...

We’ve come a long way from Nancy Botwin’s suburban kitchen--and we’re miles from Cheech and Chong’s hijinks in TJ. In television’s “golden age,” networks are delivering the most compelling production and plotlines since that time your date showed up...