American Gothic is a painting Grant Wood created in 1930, after he was inspired by a small, white house in Eldon, Iowa.

The painting depicts hard work and domesticity in the 19th century, but frankly, we find it a little boring.

Here are 25 improvements on the classic work of art.

The most credible theories surrounding the apocalypse center around the involvement of kittens.

Many conspiracy theorists believe that the meteorite which struck earth millions of years ago, causing extintion of dinosaurs actually contained millions of tiny kittens.

And these funny kitten pictures might prove these theories right.

I hate to be the one to bring this up to all you people out there but yes, winter is on its way.  And while I can’t stand the cold weather and the freezing my ass off, there are certainly some perks to winter.

Most of those perks come in the form of snow.  You’ve got snowballs, slushies, lovely pictures of trees, and of course our beloved snowmen.  Though some people have a little bit of fun with their designs.

Check out these 25 awesome snowmen.

The thing about being super rich is that you eventually run out of things to buy. You can only live in so many houses, or drive so many cars, or pay to have so many enemies killed.

Fortunately, before you ever get so desperate as to, say, give money to the poor, there is a whole industry devoted to inventing ridiculous things to waste it on.

Here are seven great products for telling the world you’re a rich dick.

Quentin Tarantino loves Japanese stuff almost as much as he loves railing eight balls, so it’s no surprise that he got recruited by Softbank for a series of Japanese cell phone commercials. As always he’s a ball of sweat and nervous energy and a lot of fun to watch.

Luckily out boys at Filmdrunk got a hold of some video footage.  Enjoy!

This weekend, the release of Roland Emmerich’s 2012 will usher in the cycle of the Mayan calendar that foretells Hollywood running out of shit to make big budget movies about.

Of course, it’s going to take a whole lot more than a complete and total absence of good ideas to get them to stop.

So Cracked asked its readers to photoshop some natural disasters and come up with rejected ideas for disaster movies.  These are pretty awesome.

Looks like Roland Emmerich is at it again. Of course, if you watch cable news like I do, the end of the world certainly looks inevitable. Perhaps Mr. Emmerich will be taken more seriously when he’s called a Documentarian.

At least that seems like a better title than “Prophet of Doom.” Either way, he loves coming up with ways to destroy crap.

See exactly how Emmerich is ending the world

Winning a championship is widely-considered the pinnacle of a pro sports career but many sports purists would argue that an athlete hasn’t achieved anything unless they have their own candy bar.

They believe an athlete must achieve a level of success so great that people are willing to eat a milk chocolate candy bar filled with caramel and peanuts with their name on it to be considered immortal.

So check out the 15 greatest pro athlete candy bars