By: Joshua Glenn

Gottlieb’s 1961 “Egg Head” pinball machine

By: Joshua Glenn

Anti-fascist pipe-smoking philosophers.

By: Joshua Glenn

Egghead as “last American virgin” type

By: Joshua Glenn

A 1997 discourse on the lower and higher absurdities.

By: Joshua Glenn

Pipe-smoker warns world of alien invasion!

By: Joshua Glenn

How do you like your egghead cooked?

By: Joshua Glenn

Batman and Robin vs. a giant pipe!

By: Joshua Glenn

He invented pipe-weed but smoked Player’s.

By: Joshua Glenn

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, middlebrows!

By: Matthew Battles

The Hero With a Thousand Price Points.

By: Matthew Battles

Amidst the lulz, awsm goes missing.

By: Tom Nealon

His criticism was easy to parody, infuriating, and brilliant.

By: Joshua Glenn

How can the Middle East win American hearts and minds?

By: Joshua Glenn

Crime writer Robert B. Parker is dead. HiLobrow.com contributor Sarah Weinman, who writes “Dark Passages,” a monthly online mystery & suspense column for the Los Angeles Times, and “The Criminalist”, a monthly online column for […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Chess sets, and Scrabble, certainly. But not Battleship, Mastermind, Risk, Monopoly, Clue? Bicycles, and pipes (the kind you smoke). But not skateboards or cigarettes, muscle cars or cigars? Teapots and typewriters. But not coffeepots or […]