Personally, I find champagne to be the giver of unwanted morning trauma and limit myself to a single glass. If you’re serving up the bubs this New Year’s Eve, however, take this bit of seasonal advice from the Associated Press and wipe those glasses with a natty towel:
In the latest dispatch from the frontiers of […]

Despite continued admonishment about the power of imagination, Walt Disney World is mostly an assembly line of identical experiences. Not so the Adventurer’s Club, a faux association of early 19th-century explorers, aviators, vaudevillians, and their treasures from a thousand exploits.
The Adventurer’s Club is on Pleasure Island, Disney World’s “adult” section of the park complex, filled […]

…but only sort of. I’ve returned with Susie from the land of synthetic joy: Walt Disney World.
It was actually sort of awesome—I’ve got a neat find that I want to share with you guys tomorrow, once I’m actually firing on all cylinders again—but for now I just wanted to raise my hand and wave it […]

As far as misogynist black-and-white advertisements go, this one isn’t all that bad (if you ignore the intimation that your wife—when not done taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and greasing your Eames-era office chair—has a duty to providing you carnal pleasure).
But hey, at least they acknowledge that women, according to trained refrigeration […]

Sample these posts—some personal favorites of ours—and tell us if they need more salt.
• The Truth of Diner Coffee
• Nalewka Babuni 2.0: Super Anti-Oxidant Health Booze
• We We Pipe: An Introduction
• The Hat, and Why It’s Mine
• Dapper or Crapper? Harness Boots
• Sex Advice from a Dungeons and Dragons Player
• Choose Your Own Adventure: The […]

Flickr user “bittercinema” has scanned an inspiring collection of men’s magazine covers from the ’50s and ’60s, the sort of proto-porn that our fathers and grandfathers used to spank it before Playboy made it okay to own pictures of actual breasts. While I can’t say I’ve ever really read any girly mags from this era […]

Combining two of the dominant trends of the ’80s—the A-Team and Shrinky Dinks—into the vehicular sensation of lower Dutchistan.

Xeni points us to this wonderful article discussing the backstory to David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s 1977 duet, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy.” [Linked via youtube above.]
While Bowie is someone we’ve never given ample attention on Dethroner, it’s Crosby I am most taken by today. The duet with Bowie, recorded as part of a Christmas […]

Several of you have popped into the wiki to punch in potential themes—we have several dozen really strong topics, enough to take us well into next year. If you’d like to add you suggestions, it’s as easy as editing the page (the edit password is “hairclumps”). Feel free.
The next step would be to flesh out […]

A fistulated cow is a cow with an intentional hole in it for scientific research. In 1822, a Canadian suffered a wound that refused to heal, but the man otherwise was in fine health. His doctor discovered that the digestive process could be observed directly through the hole. The discovery spread, and for over 150 […]