Between morning talk show pundits, party canvassers, and New Yorker covers, we don’t know who to vote for in the next election (for the purposes of this post). If only there was a candidate who represented nothing, will work for nobody, but is endorsed by a hot clothing company with a 30% Off sale going on. Rex Vanderwoodsen is Attus Apparel’s nominee for the White House, and he wants you *finger pointing* to buy a shirt. Just enter the promo code: REXFORPRES and he’ll hook you up. That’s just how the next leader of the free world rolls.

Let’s explore a hypothetical: Say you’re at a trade show … like possibly MAGIC in Las Vegas this August. You’re there on the floor of the convention center, eating some fried dough, displaying your laminate with the holographic entitlement sticker, picking up some schwag, when all of a sudden the sales pitch robots at the table gasp in horror. Yes, you’re wearing this shirt. JB Classics Lab was inspired by that same scenario and came out with this colorful quip of a T-shirt for their new “The Dead List” series. The next time somebody in a polo and chinos starts talking to you about shifting your global distribution platform, just tap the front of the shirt and stare straight ahead as you wait in line for Lou Ferrigno to sign your bicep.

Remember the Camp Camp book we were giving away to folks who sent in their pictures of the good ol’ camp days? Oh yeah, that one. Well, it didn’t work. In retrospect we realized the likelihood of having a digital version of your camp year debauchery photos was probably quite low. So with that said, we’re back again with another contest, and this time it’s a hell of a lot easier to enter. Tell us your funniest camp stories, make us laugh or giggle the most and you win. Pranks, first kisses, hazing– we want to hear it all.

Or if you’re just too lazy to tell us stories of your life, go buy the book on Amazon. It’s funny, very funny.

There’s no question that Harrison Ford has played two of the greatest roles in film history. While we might have our own personal reasons as to why we think Indiana Jones is much cooler than Han Solo, no one’s ever really qualified their abilities to answer the burning question, “who would come out on top of this character conflict if they ever met in a dark alley?” Unfortunately, this query has been left hanging up in the air for a generation of nerds to ponder … until now. Thanks to the hard work of Jake Kalish, a freelance writer and humorist who’s work has appeared in Details and Men’s Fitness, we now have some idea who would win this epic battle. In his new book Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights, Kalish pits some of the most revered names in history and pop culture in a series of Icono-clashes and manages to crown winners with the assistance of expert analysts, martial arts masters, scientists, social theorists, and pop-culture philosophers. So if you’re the type who’s ever argued that Gandalf could overpower Obi-Wan, you finally have your definitive answer … sort of.

We love art, it isn't a secret. But what really gets us going is funny art, the kind that makes us giggle uncontrollably. Which is why the title of Tom Friedman's latest exhibition is so perfect, Monsters and Stuff. Without even seeing one piece of artwork you want to see it right? We did. Monsters and Stuff is a collection of landscape sculptures, small drawings and monster-size paper collages. These materials create things like Monster Fly depicting a man being chased by a fly twice his size. The exhibition is up at Gagosian Gallery till the 25th of July. If you can make it to London, you'll probably end up at King's Cross some point during your stay, the gallery is right near by, check it out.

Camp, a favorite (often forgotten) American kids past time. Everyone went — if you didn’t go, you wished you could have. It was the one place on earth where appropriated Native American terminology, competitive sports, social hierarchy, and libido-soaked nights lived in wholesome harmony. From the acclaimed authors of Bar Mitzvah Disco (who hasn’t seen that book?), I give you, Camp Camp, Where Fantasty Island Meets Lord Of The Flies. The book’s a riot — a collection of photos by author and borderline genius Roger Bennett, a founding member of what he calls the Academy of the Recent Past. He’s on a mission to save, catalog, and celebrate the very recent past — things, trends and items that shaped this new generation. You know, like ping pong, bands that tried to rock and failed, and of course, camp.

Fancy a book and don’t want to go buy it now on Amazon? We’ve got three to give away to folks that have great, endearing (and embarrassing) photos to share from their days on the bunk beds and in the pine forests. Send your photo entries to feedback [at] joshspear.com and we’ll pick winners next week.

It’s been a little while since we’ve written about the surreal French gift shop, La Tete au Cube (who could forget the buddy towel or the cowboy flask, great gifts wrapped in classic French noir.) Their new items bring that same strange irony and add a little creepy to the mix. The Mistic Mirror (sic), which acts like a normal bathroom mirror until steamed up to leave behind the knife image, is a wonderfully weird way to surprise a house guest. But, it’s especially convenient for those that overstay their welcome.

It seems like the last thing the world needs now is a new brand of spring water. But if it’s being sold by a puppet dancing to Snap’s “Rhythm is A Dancer,” the folks at Drench spring water have me convinced otherwise. Their minute-and-a-half-long masterwork of a commercial, created by the U.K.’s Chi Advertising, is so exhilaratingly funny that it makes us thirsty for more. The ad features a hydrated hipster (aka Brains from Thunderbirds) who could just as easily serve you some Drench or serve you on the dance floor. We’d go with the former … that puppet’s pretty talented.

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It looks way unconventional, but this clever Walking Bike by Max Night “kicks” at an impressive pace. The enterprising designer outfitted an ordinary bike with eight pairs of sneakers for his pal at Intersection magazine, and it truly does run — albeit at a jogger-with-a-cramp speed. And a word to potential bikejackers: making off with the wheels on this one are likely to earn more on eBay than at the used bike store. Watch the foot pedaling action here.

There’s a certain ennui that sets in right after college graduation. It’s the first time that you’re free from an academic life you’ve been enduring since you were five, but it’s also the first time that you really have to figure out what the hell you’re doing. Harvard film student Kate T. Williamson returned from a year abroad in Japan (where she wrote her previous book, A Year in Japan) to live with her parents in Pennsylvania. Her new illustrated book, At a Crossroads: Between a Rock and My Parents’ Place (Princeton Architectural Press), out today, captures the humor of her stopover in American suburbia. It’s kind of like Dan Clowes graphic novel, Ghost World…but for the quarterlife set. Follow Williamson as she navigates the uncharted waters of Hall & Oats concerts and minor league baseball games, all the while trying to solve the problem of her next step.

We kind of have a soft spot for bunnies. From Watership Down to The Velveteen Rabbit, cute cuddly things in distress bum us out. Which is why Dutch artist Sander Plug’s Chocolate Haas is morbidly fascinating. For those that were more fans of Donnie Darko’s Frank (the music actually kind of reminds us of the score) than Peter Cottontail, one hollow chocolate bunny after another gets the Lost Ark treatment, using heat guns, space heaters, and a hot iron. Sadistic? Kind of. But think of how much worse it would be if they were alive.

By now you may have heard that Airbus’ A380, the world’s largest passenger jet had its maiden voyage from Singapore to London. The 471 passenger big boy is cleaner that a traditional jumbo jet, has more leg room than your traditional jet, and the airline attendants hand out bars of solid gold instead of salted peanuts. But, you know what else has more space? Three jets! UK artist Dominic Wilcox demonstrates that will a little ingenuity and some modeling glue, he too can be on the cutting edge of aeronautical engineering. It also totally beat our concept of having commercial airline passengers fly on Voltron’s back.

I'm a tad bit afraid of even mentioning a certain Tom Cruise-related church in this post for fear of perpetuating my own disappearance. Perhaps my cojones aren't as big as the folks at Barkley, the Missouri-based ad agency who in efforts to promote their Summer 2008 internship program or ‘Mentorship’, created a sublime send-up of those who bow at the altar of L.Ron. Their star-laden site features a video testimonial trumpeting the "good cult" atmosphere at their agency and the virtues of their leader B.Doug Brooker. Ultimately the goal of the site is to recruit some brand new talent to their advertising cult who'd like to achieve a whole other level of understanding what the advertising game is all about. We just hope Tom & Company don't take this the wrong way, and we never end up hearing from the brilliant folks at Barkley again. Did we mention how much we loved A Few Good Men?

Not since Frank Perdue and his poultry-looking family sold us on his “all natural” birds have we been so taken with an advertisement for chicken. Foster Farms has taken Dove’s “Campaign for Real Beauty” ads (the he ones where models of all shapes, sizes, and skin conditions teach us about the trickery of Photoshop), and applied it to tasty all-white meat. The ad is cute, but to be honest, we’re not sure which we’d go for: the untouched sock puppet chicken, or the unappetizing brand logo at the end. Ah, what the hell…it doesn’t really matter as long as it goes in the deep fryer.

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There’s some venture capitalists who’re ready, willing and able to throw their money at whatever crackpot idea that comes their way. Then, there’s the kids with the crackpot ideas who think it’s okay to pitch anyone, anywhere, anytime for their money. As a result, you have a giant freakin’ mess of bad manners, products and attitudes. Nobody is more aware of this than entrepreneurs Andrew Hyde of StartupWeekend and Matt Emmi from OneButtonTouch. Hearing one too many bad pitches (and a rather unfortunate incident in a bar) at the StartupWeekend in Bloomington, Hyde and Emmi figured they could develop, in entirety, a company from start to finish on a single plane ride. After a game of rock, paper, scissors, the two to fleshed out the idea, built it on WordPress and voila, VC Wear was born. Each shirt comes at a price that only a venture capitalist could afford love — $100 a piece — and the option’s open to whomever’s ready to buy the company for a sweet $100K. Ladies and Gentlemen, Get your Amex Black cards ready!