• A father and his daughter bond through tales of homoerotic he-men in their underwear and the Japanese adventures of superhuman hydrocephalics.
• "Lindsay, tell your brother he has a beautiful body."
• The erotic art of Mariano Vargas. I'm particularly enamored with his take on Da Vinci's Lady With Ermine, a painting that held me rapt the very first moment I saw it in the varnish.
• Da Vinci's less known follow-up to Lady With Ermine.
• A gallery of old soda cans. Boy, a nice cold can of Anna Banana sounds good about now.
• Boing Boing has spent a great deal of the last week focusing on the garish ineptitude of ice creams and cookies that are meant to look like pop culture icons.
• "Always a romantic about herself, Leni Riefenstahl promoted the idea that all men were slavishly in love with her."