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.
Hey dudes, let’s talk about cracks in the universe. The next weekly Rumpus meeting will be spent on underwater scooters, right Isaac? Halloween is so close, so it is time…
It is hard to beat flight pattern photography sometimes. Mondo-Bloggo has kindly reprinted the entirety of their recent post on 1950s college kids flying kites, and we are all better…
The first new carnivorous mammal in more than two decades was just discovered. Just so you know. Hey, check out Walter Green’s schema for the Believer! The internet is awash…
Start your week off right with some toxic Hungarian sludge. Lapham’s Quarterly on floating cities, real and imagined. Concrete canvas is totally amazing. Vintage coffee tins! Hurray! Um, have you…
I am endlessly fascinated by these amazing pictures of Dubai. Almost certainly the most whimsical Japanese bank I’ve seen today. I don’t usually like links in other languages, but there…
I am fascinated by this sort of thing: the failure of empathy. (via Gerry Canavan.) I’m not entirely sure why you’d want a garden on top of a bus. Bubble photography.…
Another day, another batch of Census of Marine Life photos. Lydia Davis on translation. (we are intellectuals.) This is what the internet has come to: famous graphic novels as dime-store…
Incredible pictures of human landscapes in South West Florida (seem like a good way to start a week). (via Michael Zelenko.) This pasta is also a whistle for some reason.…
Is the stegosaurus in trouble too? (which reminds me, have talked about the “bone wars” recently?) Oh hey, probably habitable other planet, sup? Space station technology brings you the hip…
It sure is hot today. I am entirely in love with this Argentinian trailer house. Anthropological surf photography. Thrilling SWAT action from the great white north. Fun fact: Germany is…
New developments on the science of heartbreak. (via @rosieate.) Movie trailers as stand-alone pieces of art. Keeping this theme going all week long: designer animal houses. Today’s relevant wikipedia entry…