The Killerest Cowabungas Ever Uttered

On Monday, the world lost Edward Kean, songwriter for RCA Victor Records and Golden Books, and chief writer of popular children’s television show Howdy Doody. Moreover, Kean invented the word “kowabunga,” which would ultimately evolve into “cowabunga” and get invoked by some of the biggest pop-culture icons of all time....  read more

Awesome of the Day: Bart Simpson's Blackboard Lines on One Wall

A floor-to-ceiling blackboard runs the 22-meter length of an office at London marketing agency Work Club. Every six months, a different emerging artist draws on it, but cleverest is Mat Williams. Over the course of two days (and 20 white markers), he wrote out 288 lines first scribbled by Bart Simpson during various Simpsons intros, from “I WILL NOT WASTE CHALK” to “I WILL NOT RUN OUT OF BLACKBOARD JOKES.”...  read more