When I used to live in a fourth-story apartment, I thought that a cool invention would be a charcoal grill that you mount outside your window frame so that you could enjoy the delicious, smoky flavor of meat slow-cooked over compressed briquettes of petroleum waste without any need for a patio. The obvious disadvantage is that a window-mounted grill might fall out of the window and plunge four stories into somebody's baby carriage, incurring the wrath of consumer safety watchdogs. Still, the s
Flickr user toddius has created a set of the worst possible 33 1/3 book covers, which piggybacks off an idea originally done by this user, jima.
Flickr toddiusMy personal favorites include Prince's Purple Rain, by Tipper Gore. Her book, Raising PG Kids In An X-Rated Society, spoke of Purple Rain thusly: "I couldn't believe my ears! The vulgar lyrics embarrassed both of us. At first, I was stunned--then I got mad!"" Ah, classic. There's also The Beatles (aka The White Album) by Charles Manson, a