X-men logos suddenly appear everywhere in a suburb
Why is someone going around Glen Ellyn spray-painting X-Men logos on people’s lawns?
Pop culture
Why “I Love Onions” is such a wonderfully quirky song
What combines kazoos, scatting, muppet voices, a Billboard 100 appearance, and played on Captain Kangaroo? Answer: this song!
19th century chair as a Transformer
I might have gone too far. I have come up with three different Transformer names for this 19th century armchair in the Art Institute’s collection.
SpongeBob’s great grandfather is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection
Today I discovered Spongebob Squarepants’ great-great grandfather—in an art museum.
International Space Station or Millennium Falcon?
For a brief moment when I saw this image of the International Space Station, it reminded me of my Millennium Falcon photos.
“Mah Na Mah Na” connected to TRON Legacy?
When searching for Mah Na Mah Na on Spotify, the results include Daft Punk’s TRON soundtrack.
Funk Dat as meme for 2021
Let’s make this 1993 song into a meme: “Question [insert some sort of situation] Man, funk dat!”
Peeps costumes for the Pepsi Peeps challenge
If I had a Peeps costume for my one-year-old toddler, I’d be walking her around the block all day long, sipping on the sweet sweet nectar of Pepsi Peeps soda.
The Ferris Bueller vest challenge
Would you like to own the same vest that Matthew Broderick wore in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?” Many online sellers offer imitation vests that come pretty close. Others, not so close.
Ferris Bueller’s running home song
So bizarre when my “Discover Weekly” playlist from Spotify has the song from the end of the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. “March of the Swivel Heads” by The English Beat is the song that plays when Bueller is racing her sister back to their house. It’s really weird to hear the song without the …