What do Pyrex and pancake mix have to do with malt shops and homosexuals in bitchin’ 50’s cars? Answer: they’re things the media wants us to freak out about. Read on for some vintage paranoia, courtesy of Sid Davis.

Baby monkeys are cute — in the wild, or at the zoo. In your house? Not so much.

The world of high fashion has always been catty, but this is taking things a little far: Design company United Bamboo is releasing a calendar featuring its latest collection . . . as modeled by cats.

Aaron Neathery of Austin, Texas, has created a wry and brilliant webcomic, Endtown, about what happens after the apocalypse. This is not your standard Mad Max scenario: the ‘good guys’ live in an underground suburb called Endtown, where they live on whatever canned food (mostly beans) they can scrounge from the shattered cities on the surface. Mutagens in the atmosphere have turned the majority of them into animals, making Endtown a fun mashup of Looney Tunes and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.  Neathery riffs on such cartoonists as Chuck Jones and Walt …