To her fans, Lisa Frank is almost as mythical a figure as her beloved unicorn. For women in their twenties, thirties, and forties, Frank's name alone conjures up a specter of koala bears clinging to rainbow-flavored ice-cream cones, neon tiger cubs frolicking with surfing penguins, and, of course, majestic unicorns…
On Sunday, Sasha Obama wore a sweater with a unicorn on it to a basketball game. By Thursday, unicorn sweaters had gone extinct. (Is "extinct" the word for a sweater selling out? Maybe it should be.)
Everyone's favorite sparkly Internet meme has a long and strangely scientific history – naturalists and scholars have been obsessing over unicorns for over 2000 years. What turned a scientific curiosity of the year 398 BCE into a virgin-loving Christian symbol?
The epic Craigslist ad is quickly becoming the impoverished modern equivalent of the epic poem, and it’s really just a matter of time until some enterprising literary critic launches the Craigslist Ad Quarterly, and the charm of a half-crazed, over-reaching attempt to get rid of a couch “woven entirely from Unicorn…
Well, it looks like we finally found the intersection on the Venn diagram for North Korea and tween girls from the 1970s. Both, as it turns out, are super into unicorns. And making things up.
Ke$ha is confusing. When I first heard "Tik Tok," I thought it was a joke. An unfunny morning radio jingle, in which a white girl was "rapping." When I realized it was an actual song, I was incredulous — is this what people like now? I was bewildered by the human race. A year ago, I wrote
Funny little girls raised on Lisa Frank Trapper Keepers become hilarious women who dream of pianos made of clouds. Who cares that it's a commercial? It's got pathos!
Every year we do a survey of cover art elements for the top fantasy novels published in the previous year. After the jump, some observations on the data, including analysis of the decline in castles and the extinction of unicorns.
Every single one is terrible in its own way — the "White Power" ass-piece is truly tasteless — but the "Hustlin'" 'corn, seen here, is a personal fave. [Damn Cool Pics]
In a world where ponies run free on rainbows, spreading joy and sunshine wherever they go, there's only one creature who dares to rain on the pretty pony parade: Unicorn, Destroyer Of Ponies. It's time to get magically vicious! [BoingBoing]
Two new books — Kate Christensen's Trouble and Gloria Vanderbilt's Obsession: An Erotic Tale — handily refute claims that women can't write about sex
[Epsom, England; June 5. Image via Getty]
Two really insane unicorn videos today. (Both embedded after the jump.) What does it mean? [BoingBoing, World Of Wonder]
Take a walk down memory lane with this gallery of Lisa Frank images. And yes, bring the shades; those unicorns aren't messing around with your retinas. [ColourLovers]
Have you ever dreamed of turning every website you visit into a Lisa Frank-esque nightmare? Well now you can, thanks to Cornify, which lets you adorn your favorite sites with rainbows, hearts, and unicorns. [Cornify]
The pre-paid cell phone advertisement seen at left greeted me this morning at the cell phone store in Saarlouis, Germany where I stopped to buy a SIM card. If the tux and slicked-down hair are fooling you, that's Snoop Dogg, bringing you roses, 100 free text messages, 10 free songs and 10 (Euro) cents a minute phone…
I've been mulling over a few things after a shit storm
We meant to include this clip in our Lisa Simpson feminist montage
After a one-horned deer
A real, live unicorn was spotted in Italy! Well, sorta. It's actually a baby deer that was born-with a genetic flaw of only having one horn in the center of his head-in captivity in a research habitat in the Tuscan town of Prato. Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato said that this is the…
A children's toy is being recalled in Australia after three kids were hospitalized after ingesting pieces of it which were found to contain a chemical that, once in the human body, metabolizes into the party drug GHB. (So much better than China and their lead Barbies.) The toy, Bindeez, is a craft kit made up of…
