Happy Memorial Day, everybody. Just a short list of links today.

This Ode to a Props Master, by Marissa Bidella, is quite fun.

Magazines from the Future shows off some of the covers of magazines which appeared in the background of the film Blade Runner.

Propnomicon has attempted a gaff of a Mongolian Death Worm using only the traditional materials that the original gaffs were made of: paper, flour, cotton fiber and glue. A “gaff” is a fake “speciman” of an imaginary creature used by carnivals to get people to visit their sideshows. PT Barnum made some of the most famous gaffs, such as the Feejee Mermaid.