Friday Links: Best of Luck to This Rat

Just keep humming the Mission Impossible theme, it gets funnier pic.twitter.com/Js2wBdBoWX

— Science Cat (@DrScienceCat) October 17, 2014

• Astounding shot of a death-defying rat trying to shimmy between two trash cans. [Sciencecat on twitter]
• The only link that seems into Halloween this year is this photo of Taylor Swift wooking wike a sad unicorn. 🙁 [The Cut on Twitter]
• Toast editor Mallory Ortberg, the brains behind such art-historical lists as “Women Having a Horrible Time at Parties,” breaks down her thought process. “You read these [classics] in high school and the big question you ask is, Is Hamlet mad? Another big question to ask is, Is Hamlet an asshole?” [The Cut]
• Metal heads steal the metal head of John Denver. [SF Gate]
• It’s that time of year when your inbox becomes nothing but press releases for what’s happening at next month at the Miami art fairs. Today’s tip: Ryan McNamara will enact his much-lauded 2013 Performa commission, “MEƎM: A Story Ballet About the Internet,” during Art Basel. [Art Basel]
• Planning on going out tonight for Halloween? Why not memorize some of the worst jokes to tell at tonight’s parties? [Reddit]
• Another year, Kelly Crow predicts another auction frenzy. Who cares. [Wall Street Journal]
• The clowns must be stopped. The small French town of Vendargues has banned scary clowns “fueled by a clown craze on social media.” Are they referring to Juggalos? Or just scary clowns? [BBC]
• You can do as best a job as a parent that you can do. You can still have less-than-genius kids. [DailyMail]
• There is now an artist residency program on a cargo ship. Artists will have their own cabin while the ship resumes its normal commercial activities. [Smithsonian via the Paris Review]

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