Dan Weiss

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 not coming from the left. After 1,000 years, is it…

In search of a true blue M&M. For far too long we have been denied twin London Bridges. And while we’re on it, why DOESN’T the Statue of Liberty have a glowing wrist watch? When things go down, let’s all…

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 Poelzig. The best roads are roads to nowhere. It’s time…

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 new world’s tallest tower. Aitor Estévez has your ruins porn…

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 your Orientalist Art Nouveau dinner invitation cards for the day.…

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 worth looking at). On the hunt for an Alaskan bumblebee.

The world is falling apart and here in California it’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day so we’ll be back tomorrow morning. Everyone just try to breathe. 

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. A secret history of women in the CIA.

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 the world needs is a new history of Esperanto.

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 short, if you have kidney stones .

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: If trump wins this election he will be added to…

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 by not vaccinating). We’re so close to Jurassic Park being…