Wow, you look different. So, uh, how's things? You're not dating anyone? The facelift looks great! You had barrel-reduction surgery? Wow, it — um, yeah. No, you look great! Hey, how'd you find my apartment again?

It looks like the Traffic Barrel Monsters are rising. We saw one earlier this month in North Carolina and now a reader spotted one in Michigan!

The Traffic Barrel Monster is one of our favorite stories this year, so when we saw him hanging out at the North Carolina State Fair we had to stop for a picture.

Our favorite traffic barrel monster-maker is back after a short, umm... incarceration and stint of community service, and look, now he's given his monster a girlfriend! Don't they look cute together?

NC State student Joseph Carnevale, the vigilante artist behind the traffic barrel monster, has been sentenced to 50 hours of community service because of his "crime." Perhaps, as a community service, he should make more.