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.
We’ve always been afraid of dead people (voting). To get political for a second: hey but don’t forget there’s a real attempt to rig the election going on, and it’s…
In the midst of such a dark year some actual good news: the Justice Dept. is going to start tracking police killings. Let’s all take a moment for the nightmare architecture of Hans…
Things seem real dark and scary but at least this terrifying prehistoric moth doesn’t exist anymore. Welcome to the age of future silk. It’s time to get ready for a…
I know you’re sick of reading about the Trump tape, but you should really read Jill Soloway on the tape and toxic masculinity. Wait, hold on, new fault line? Here’s…
Picturing the lost Baghdad. Welcome to the world of modern mummification. How bad can the world really be when it contains leafy seadragons? North Koreans restaurants (are certainly a thing…
Here’s your mid-90s Scientology handbook to get you through the weekend. Brutalism today, Brutalism forever. Let’s all go to Helltown (Ohio)! Inside the bowling alleys and karaoke bars of warn-torn Afghanistan.…
The bigger the brain the longer yawn. Dept of things that make my head hurt: why does time go forward? Meet the Ishmaels, America’s “worst” family. On refugee architecture. What…
Photographing the anthropocene. News item: buttons are totally sick dude! We all want to go to Soviet statue theme parks sometimes. From whence came the flat iron steak? Long story…
Swiss banks are OUT now it’s all about storing your money in secret Alpine gold vaults. Violating all of my self-imposed Morning Coffee rules to offer up this terrifying thought:…
In honor of the High Holy Days let’s talk about the Jewish American accent. A bit of good news: Measles are gone from the Americas (but please don’t mess this up…