Note: Written in response to Adam Mastroianni, "The Decline of Deviance." experimental-history.com. October 28, 2025. There's a strange thing happening: people are getting more similar. Teenagers drink less, fight less, have less sex. Crime rates have dropped by half in thirty years. People move less often. Movies are all sequels. Buildings all look the same. … Continue reading Why Everyone Seems So Normal Now (And Why That’s a Problem)
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366 Weird Movies
366 Weird Movies, “Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD!” h/t, feuilleton
Lowering Our Boggle Threshold
"Paranthropologist Dr Jack Hunter, editor of the newly released anthology Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience, notes that psychical researcher Rene Haynes coined the concept of the ‘Boggle threshold’ to describe this phenomenon – “the point at which a researcher says ‘no I’m not taking that, I’m not accepting that any further, it’s too weird’.” … Continue reading Lowering Our Boggle Threshold
Buttfish
"Effortlessly transmitting Morse Code of chess moves to your butthole" —https://github.com/RonSijm/ButtFish Either a sign of the apocalypse or just another Thursday, depending on who you ask.
Always Judge a Book By Its Cover
"Some books win awards, some win our heart, and others... only serve to confuse."-https://alwaysjudgeabookbyitscover.com/ Eating People is Wrong's commentary made me LOL. But, it was the Chuck Tingle book that convinced me to post this website. I don't know why I even know who Chuck Tingle is, probably has something to do with the "weird … Continue reading Always Judge a Book By Its Cover
How to Destroy the Earth
"This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. I can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary. Humanity is wily and resourceful, and many of the methods outlined below will take many years to even become … Continue reading How to Destroy the Earth
Danielle Baskin
"I make viral art, companies, and delightfully weird events."—DanielleBaskin.com My kind of weird. I think my favorite is the stained glass airplane window decal, but there are a number of interesting ideas on her site.
Grovertruk
All you really need to know is that someone decided to document a van life buildout that features a firepit. The fact that this was inspired by Groverhaus, which was a dangerous and crazy decision a guy named Grover and his wife decided to build an add-on to his home without professional help, is interesting … Continue reading Grovertruk
Imagining Chapel Perilous
"Once you are in the Chapel [Perilous], Wilson insisted, there are only two ways out: as an agnostic, or a stone-cold paranoid. “There is no third way.”......Like so many drugs, the Imagination is both poison and cure, and we are not getting rid of that paradox any more than we are getting rid of pop … Continue reading Imagining Chapel Perilous
Ghost Boxes and Psycho-Phones
SPIRIT SOUNDS In 1957 a Swedish painter by the name of Friedrich Jürgenson – a man so famed for his artistic ability that Pope Pius XII had a total of four portraits painted by him at his personal request – purchased a reel to reel tape recorder. 3,247 more wordsGhost Boxes and Psycho-Phones Fascinating.
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