Birthdays are always a time of reflection, a chance to look back at what you did well and what you didn’t quite successfully pull off.

Life Magazine is celebrating its 75th birthday. In its heyday, the magazine was a fixture in so many American homes. In the decades before the internet and cable and satellite television, the outstanding photographic journalism in the publication brought the reader right into the world beyond their doorstep. Whether it was covering wars, political movements like the fall of the Berlin Wall or celebrities, Life provided stimulating visuals to accompany the story. Iconic images were the magazine’s trademark. Think about the photo of the sailor and nurse kissing in Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II.

Editors at Life have taken this benchmark anniversary as a chance to note not only their achievements, but also their failures among the 2,200 covers they produced. They’ve put together their 20 worst Life covers ever. Among them is a giant image of a white leghorn rooster.

I have no clue what that rooster did to earn a spot on the cover. Maybe it was the great-great grandpa to the rooster that killed a man or the bird that sounds out a morning death metal cock-a-doodle-do.

Despite what you might think by looking at that giant real-life Foghorn Leghorn, that one’s not the freakiest among the images Life has tabbed.

I’ve never had a problem eating food from a gas station.  Just two weeks ago, I ate a couple of hot dogs purchased from a gas station.  They were delicious.  That’s not the first time I’ve eaten gas station food, and I doubt it will be the last.  There’s nothing like a fun food novelty. […]

Commissioner Roger Goodell gathered 32 NFL owners for one big question.  One of the league’s most wanderlust-stricken franchises is looking to move again.  The Oakland-Los Angeles-Oakland Raiders, tired of gutting it out in a run-down stadium, were once again looking for greener pastures.  Only the Miami Dolphins refused to cooperate.  With a vote of 31-1, […]

In 2006, an injury to Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe opened the door for an undrafted free agent by the name of Tony Romo to take the helm of America’s Team and lead the Dallas Cowboys to an early playoff exit.  Bledsoe went from starter to afterthought in a season.  Now, the circle continues […]

For 89 years, Oscars has never had a major mistake.  The last few Oscars might have had a few flubs, but at least they never got the most important category of the night wrong.  Well, that’s now changed, all thanks to OG Bonnie and Clyde legends Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.  When Faye Dunaway called […]

Tom Brady has been wildly successful, if controversial.  He’s the first quarterback ever to win five Super Bowls and only the second player to do so after Charles Haley.  Unlike Haley, Brady won all his Super Bowls with the same team, the New England Patriots.  The only thing that seems to be able to stop […]

Ben Affleck, no matter what you might think of him, is a talented actor and director.  He’s got the goods, but he’s smart enough to know when he’s in over his head.  All along, since he took on the mantle of Batman, he’s had his eyes on writing, directing, and starring as the Caped Crusader. […]

In May, students for the for-profit American College of Education were running into some problems.  Their access to email accounts and course information was locked down by Google, who had disabled their accounts.  The reason why?  A fired IT worker for the American College of Education locked the school out of their Google cloud account. […]