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.
Today is a good day for tumblrs (if you enjoy scientific illustrations or old children’s books). The answer is Gliese 581d! Let us now consider Texas State Fairs from the…
Here are your illusions for the year. Hey dudes, there is hella water on the moon yo. Good uses of tubes. Avant-garde books are pretty neat! This makes a lot…
On a similar vein as yesterday: touring the abandoned New Orleans Six Flags. Um, have you guys been following this Area 51 stuff? Here are some pictures. East and West…
Everyone loves owls right? Austrian “conceptual devices.” (via Aqua Velvet.) Airplanes-taking-off-photo porn. Michigan Central Station in ruin 360. (via Gerry Canavan.) Bears vs Lions! (Prehistoric shit is GOING DOWN.)
Sometimes it is hard to keep track of all the rad new animals. Speaking of: wild animal sex! Let’s all watch BART get built, yes? Beautiful parking lots (seem like…
Have you read Slate’s fascinating (and relevant) article on what happens when doomsday prophecies fail? You totally should! 70’s Italian collage super cosmic action fun times! Victorian alert: Peter Pan in…
As it turns out, the most important question (evolution-wise) may be “what’s that smell?” I really like these Winnipeg skating shelters. I’ve been worried about this sort of thing for…
It is safe to assume that today will be another day. Today in: things you can do with abandoned factories. Robot libraries of the future! Cool it chimps! Dutch detective…
The internet was invented so I could go through the NYPL’s gallery of scientific and medical pictures. Istanbul’s urban sprawl makes for a good picture of the day. Yesterday was…
The future of public transportation is shaped like jellyfish. Amazing (and sort of gross) pictures of food. I’m sure you’ve always wondered why tarantulas poop silk out of their feet.…
When I go, I want to go on a euthanasia-coaster. A look at the history of Science Fiction. Icons Zootomicae. Admit it, you want to look at 1960s Paris fashion.…
See, it WAS the cell phones. What your literary tote bag says about you (as a writer for the Rumpus and an employee of a non-Green Apple sf bookstore, this…