Beware, Artists: Lisa Frank Is Hiring
If you love unicorns and questionable labor practices
Inside the Rainbow Gulag: The Technicolor Rise and Fall of Lisa Frank
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…
Sasha Obama Causes Nationwide Unicorn Sweater Shortage
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.)
The bizarre history of our obsession with unicorns
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?
Adorably Terrifying Unicorn Exhibit Invades the L.A. Zoo
I'm not sure what I would do if I saw this thing running at me — either punch it or hug it. Mothers, hold your children a little closer tonight.
No Unicorns Were Harmed in Making This Craigslist Couch (Probably)
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…
This Cat with a Unicorn Horn Hates You and Every Other Human
Poor Spyke the cat! Tortured in the name of advertising some ridiculous inflatable fake unicorn horns. You will all pay for this.
Unicorn Lair Discovered in North Korea, Says North Korea [Updated]
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.
Does Ke$ha Know Something We Don't?
Ke$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
Sarah Silverman's Emotional Make-Out With A Unicorn
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!
The Extinction Of Unicorns: The Year In Fantasy-Book Covers
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.
55 Bad Unicorn Tattoos
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]
All Of Lisa Frank's Nightmares Are Coming True
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 Writers Make Sex After Forty Sound Pretty Good
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
We So Horny
[Epsom, England; June 5. Image via Getty]
One Horn To Rule Them All?
Two really insane unicorn videos today. (Both embedded after the jump.) What does it mean? [BoingBoing, World Of Wonder]
Purple Rain
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]
Cornify: Like The Internet Through Mariah Carey's Eyes
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]
Journeys In Foreign Advertisements
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…