Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Mother’s Day is coming up, maybe you should buy a flying hovercraft.

Here are some delightfully morbid 19th century biology book illustrations.

This Jewel Caterpillar is pretty neat.

Document roadkill, for science!

Patents for unusual houses, 1930s-2000s. Huzzah.

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Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.

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