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 in the dystopia: here come the giant laser magnifying glass weapons. Unbuilt Robert Moses. No, you aren’t living in a hologram (probably). Yes, we all used to be ass-less…
It’s hard to find the balance between not letting this column get over taken by anger with the world and our new administration and not wanting to look like I…
Everything is really dark, weird, and bad, but sometimes the light shines through. Anyway this would be a good time to donate to the ACLU and the IRC. Geological time…
So this is all still as terrible as we could have imagined huh? BTW you’re reading that voter fraud study all wrong. At least we’ve got Philip Glass Week. The…
Tech elites (and other super rich) are preparing for the apocalypse. What a fun time we’re living in! BTW what would happen if North Korea nuked us? Want to be…
Psst… Uber is pretty awful. So you want to be an asteroid miner. Maybe it’s time for some new deep sea footage to remind us that not everything is awful.…
Welcome to 2017, featuring such fascinating questions as “is it wrong to punch a nazi?” But, like, what if New York was in PARIS? What is life but the world’s…
Look I don’t want to exaggerate, or seem like a whiner, but today is a bleak day in American history. We’re taking a day off over here. We encourage you…
What is life but a thomasson? Beware the doomway. Important news: the ocean is still filled with weird scary things! Meanwhile I’m just over here dreaming of the hyperloop future.…
Start your Wednesday with some talk about Antarctic bases. Against Battles (this is very good). News item: Venus is, like, so weird. What is life but an island on a…
Here’s your FedEx based glass art for the day. I wonder what Pablo Escobar’s son thinks about architecture (because is an architect). Melted metal is the most metal thing. Hey…
Maybe viruses are responsible for, like, everything? Great news everybody! Vampire bats are actually starting to drink human blood! Great news everybody! Hackers can probably steal your fingerprints just using…