Wicked cool

The men who make houses explode (all for the sake of art)

It's about 2 men who go to homes that are about to be demolished and rework the wooden siding, trim, etc., so that the houses look like they've exploded, imploded, and on and on.

Christmas is scary

Codex (from the web series The Guild) during a tribute to "The Night Before Christmas".

The Guild was a fun series that I like without apology (well, there's nothing to apologize for except the geekiness).

Discussion on art protests from PBS

Conversation: Why Do Americans Protest Art?

Steven Tepper, a sociologist and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, has written a book entitled, Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest Over Art and Culture in America which is the first thing I've ever run across that seems to discuss why people protest certain artistic expressions (from Huckleberry Finn, Angels in America, et al.) from a sociologist's perspective.

He looked at over 800 protests in the late 1990s and the conclusion that he reached in the book was that these protests seemed to have occurred because of changing social standards in the given towns and cities. Usually, he intimated in the interview, following large influxes of immigration that left people wondering, "who are we?"

Interesting way to look at it. Better than "they're not educated," or just, "they're jerky."