I have been a huge fan of James Lileks’s site for a long time. Culling vintage images taken from varied print sources, James has a lot of fun laughing at their crudeness and naiveté. This stuff is freaking hilarious.

And if you like James’s site, you’ll love the weight watchers recipe cards site.

I’ve written about Wendy’s crazy weight watcher’s cards site here before, and now there is a cult following cropping up. People are actually making these bizarre and often frightening recipes and posting the images at the flickr MAKE THE MACKEREL! area. I love how they’re finding weird vintage objects to put in the background as well. I wonder how many people are actually eating their creations.

Oh, how I adore this site. This woman named Wendy found all these old weight watchers recipe cards from the seventies in her parent’s basement and scanned them in, and then put captions to them. It is laugh-out-loud funny.

Atomic Ed & The Black Hole is a great film about a former Los Alamos National Laboratory machinist who collects atomic junk and sells it in his shop. I really need to visit this place. He has so much cool debris from the atomic era, and the FBI actually raided his store at one point to take some of it back. A lot of artists come here to find junk for their art.

In our vending machine at work, there are these weird cupcakes that look so artificial it’s staggering. They are so brightly colored and so processed and so filled with preservatives. So why are they called Mrs. Freshley’s?