Meet the strange attractors behind Dangerous Minds

When Dangerous Minds does dig for a bone, moreover, it digs deeper than the others. For instance, one day Metzger was spelunking through the net for La Dolce Gilda, a black-and-white short film he remembered seeing on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s. I couldnt believe no one had put it on YouTube, he says. I discovered that the director had also done a feature film that was never released to home video. It starred Bill Murray. So I found it on an underground torrent tracker. Dubbed in German.

Mere days after that 2014 Dangerous Minds scoop, complete with a link to the full lost Bill Murray movie Nothing Lasts Forever, articles on the film popped up in the Chicago Tribune, Yahoo!, and Slate. It was front-page news for Britains The Telegraph newspaper. For Dangerous Minds, it was just one of 13 articles posted that day, among them Make Your Own Marcel Duchamp Chess Set with a 3-D Printer; Scenes from Marc Bolans Funeral; and Freaky Armadillo Purse.

Richard is an anthropologist of high weirdness, says David Pescovitz, a partner and editor at the popular blog Boing Boing, which is like an older, cyber-oriented brother to Dangerous Minds. He doesnt judge. He doesnt exploit. His fascination and obsession is infectious.

"Weird, Inc." by Laurie Pike (Cincinnati Magazine)