Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everything is terrible but sometimes a sea turtle carries out a dying person’s wish. God is a bot (the city I live in is the very worst city). Tiny architecture…
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Dan Weiss
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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.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Highly highly recommend listening to Five Thirty Eights podcast on next weeks Wisconsin Gerrymandering Supreme Court case. The future of the military is a giant armed nervous system and what…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Jelani Cobb on ungrateful as the new uppity (this is great and important). Elsewhere in the New Yorker: Archaeology in an East Village classroom. What is life but a fancy…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Lakes of mercy and human sacrifice: Teothuacan reveals itself. Sometimes you just want to look at old chrome decals. Sometimes you just want to look at a jet fly through…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mapping the (striking lack of) accessibility of the world’s metro lines. The remarkable patience of the Staten Island bat watchers. On the bizarre 200-year disappearance and reemergence of Vivaldi. Hey…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Great news! We can look inside (maybe) Jules Verne’s time capsule. Snopes is the true unsung hero of our age. The bizarre case of New Zealand’s Exploding pants. Fill your…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important: let’s all go be firefighters on Antarctica. What the hurricanes bring up (mostly sea monsters). Everything is still very bad but at least the ozone is repairing itself.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Michel Foucault, high on LSD, in Death Valley. The important questions: are wolves better problem solvers than dogs? Let’s all explore Pripyat before and after their nuclear accident. Here’s your…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe civilization is actually the worst? Water towers of Luxembourg. I didn’t know my dream job was to be in charge of killing spacecraft, but now you know. So you…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Eileen Myles on the dreamy, erotic art of Jack Pierson. Did you know that last month Curbed profiled at the great forgotten post-war architects? They did, it’s true! Can we…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Surely the secret oasis under Antarctica will save us all! Won’t somebody think of the parasites? Lighthouses of North America (are nice). What is life but a sewer-clogging fatberg? Here…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On Taylor Swift, Medievalists, and what to do when the Nazis love you. Remember that time congress worked to make antibiotics ineffective? Fare thee well Cassini. The best mysteries involve…