​Have you long suspected that your boss is a psychopath? Maybe not the kind who's killing prostitutes in a rain coat to the musical stylings of Huey Lewis and the News, but...actually, now you're thinking of it, maybe that? You'll be the opposite of relieved to know that if you work in a corporate environment, your boss has a higher chance of being a psychopath than someone in a non-managerial position, according to a new study.

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The C train lumbers into a station.

​The annual "State of the Subway" report by the Straphangers Campaign is out today. The J and Z lines came out on top, a first for them, and the 2 and C lines were rated worst out of all, to no one's surprise. It's the third year in a row that the C, colloquially known (among someone somewhere, probably) as a "shitwagon," has come in last.

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​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

You're Nearly There: Christian Sex Education for Preteens

Author: Mary Kehle
Date: 1983
Publisher: Harold Shaw, Wheaton, Illinois
Discovered at: Midwestern yard sale
The Cover Promises: You're nearly there, so think about baseball. Also: Boys should wear shirts made of girls' skirts. Also: It's time for your Godly sex-talk, so bring the dog!

Representative Quote:

"Usually around twelve or thirteen, a boy will notice a 'growth spurt' and the penis and scrotum will grow larger and resemble those of his father." (page 28).

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​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

If Roast Beef Could Fly and Leading With My Chin

Date: 2004; 1996
Publisher: Harper Collins; Simon & Schuster
Discovered at: Goodwill
The Covers Promise: The intimate thoughts of a man with no apparent capacity for self-investigation

Hey, Can You Tell Which Quote Comes From the Book for Four Year Olds?

"As you can probably tell from my burger story earlier, I have a deep love for meat, and it began early."

"Ironic but true: McDonald's was responsible for my career in comedy."

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​Doesn't it seem like everyone's writing about relationship politics these days? Not that that's any different from ever before. Now we've got this: an article arguing that although 20-something men are mainly slobs in dirty sweatpants watching Onion Sports Dome, they still have the upper hand in sexual relationships with women their age, who are statistically more successful and together than they are. Wow, shocker. Men have the upper hand in sex? Or at least, they're perceived to have the upper hand?

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​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

Is He Straight? The Checklist for Women Who Wonder

Author: Bonnie Kaye, M.Ed
Date: 2004
Publisher: iUniverse
Representative Quote:

"If your husband spends excessive time on the internet viewing gay websites or porno, or if he watches gay porno at home, you have reason to be concerned." (page 40)

"When gay men are looking to excusethose homosexual urges, they may use the 'Abuse Excuse' when discussing the situation." (page 48)

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​According to a new study, those lame hashtags like "#worstpickuplines" and "#rulesforgirls" and "#stuffifoundinmynose" or whatever tend to catch on much more quickly and become more widespread than the serious ones, like "#jan25" or "#egypt". And apparently you're more likely to buy a new gadget if a tech blogger tweets about it than if Ashton Kutcher does. Oh, also! "An earlier Stanford study found that bloggers, over time, had more influence than mainstream publications in areas like technology or entertainment." Hell. Yeah. Blogging is not dead.

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​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

Look, I totally understand the modern hankering for the handmade and the pre-industiral, for children's toys that look like they might have been crafted by elves in a workshop rather than shat out of one of those Mattel's Chinese lead-and-woe factories.

But good Lord in heaven, that's no excuse for the horrors of How to Make Soft Toys & Dolls. What is the appropriate age for furry prisoner-rendition cosplay?
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​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

What Girls Can Be

Author: Dean Walley, words; Maria Hughes, art
Date: None given; probably the late 1960s
Publisher: Hallmark
Discovered at: Read "Write" Training Center & Book Store, Moriarty, New Mexico
The Cover Promises: "Oh, The Places You'll Go . . . Within the Strangling Confines of Tradition."

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​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.

The Living Animals of the World: A Popular Natural History Magazine

Date: 1901
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Discovered at: Antique mall
The Back Cover Promises: "This work was three years in preparation; everything has been done to make it PERFECT IN EVERY WAY."More >>