Collectible.

NY Times: The new symbol for midlife crisis is the skateboard.

Now do the same with Laser Discs.

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Mental Floss

For the most part, they look pretty bored.

An ancient Mayan skull stolen from Tibet by Nazis – said to have magical powers to enable humanity to survive the December 2012 apocalypse – has been dropped by a lab assistant in eastern Germany, chipping its chin.

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Jamel Shabazz’s photography comes to life in this fresh video from Mr. 4Letters.

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Richard Check worked at Bethlehem Steel for 44 years, this is his story.

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Good List

It’s all about community.

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For a fee, “Dominic Deville stalks young victims for a week, sending chilling texts, making prank phone calls and setting traps in letterboxes.” All with the goal of smashing a birthday cake in the kids face, while simultaneously ruining any pleasant memory of clowns forever.

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The Perfect Strangers Game

(thanks Kiji!)

Vice meets the legendary punk artist

Here’s a recent lecture covering the anthropology of Hip-Hop plus a Q&A at St. John’s.

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Surprised these haven’t made it to Brooklyn yet… Anyway, more at the Afghan Box Camera Project.

Bouncin’ off buses

Written under duress by Hunter S. Thompson in 1970

Peep what’s on the inside cover.

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I’m Rich: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake! Dude’s got a way with words.

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