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.
Sad news my friends: after (very) briefly thinking we here at DWMC could make this work on a shortened schedule, it’s become very clear that due to new jobs and…
For the love of god, someone please save the narwhal. When does history start anyway? There is water, on the bottom of the ocean (the ocean is under the surface…
We’re going to be scaling things back over here at DWMC for a bit to three posts a week. Thank you for being the people you all are. Virginia Heffernan…
Important news: whale sharks are the greatest. Fare thee well Chicago’s only waterfall. SNAKE NEWS. We do love Soviet design and ingenuity though. So you want to run on the…
Let’s all take a deep dive into why there won’t be a Nobel Prize for literature this year. Black afterlives matter too. In the future, we’ll all be living inside…
Seals are doing their part. Here’s your Soviet Ukranian architecture for the day. What is life but a fish poop-based white sand beach? Jupiter has, like, so many moons. Everyone…
Maybe you’ll care about climate change when it wipes out the internet? On the other hand: it’s very good for archaeological discoveries. Important human origin news. Very old bread. Were…
Happy birthday (yesterday) Buckminster Fuller. Let us now compare the orientations of city streets. Every day is a good day to talk about the LA River. I guess it’s time…
Would really rather not live in a world with 3D printed guns. Don’t even think about dying on PayPal. Asking the important questions: sup with corpse flowers? Palm Trees in…
At least we still have new dinosaur news. Listen to the sounds of Saturn. The moon is the ultimate Rorschach test. Who’s driving Tokyo? Let’s take a trip to the…
Medieval monsters are the original propaganda. Searching for the Tasmanian tiger. Things that happened in the USSR and also Silicon Valley. It only takes three US presidents to encompass all…