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.
Great news everybody! Cockroaches are (maybe) about to start flying around New York City! Did you Cloud Atlas in the US? It turns out you read a startling different book…
An incredibly important story to start your week: Wawa vs Sheetz. The untold story of neuroscience’s most famous brain. I wish someone would grow ME a comb jellyfish. Elsewhere in…
You should read the New York Time’s intense and epic reporting on the splintering of the Arab World and 13 years of the Iraq War. How will Pokemon Go change cities…
I wish I could go to a Victorian artist seance. In the meantime let’s all take a trip inside Oneida: the christian safe sex utopia! The future is an artificially…
Hey remember that time we almost blew up the world over a solar flare? “Fun” fact: the site of Trump’s call to assassinate Hillary yesterday was also home to a white…
Brazil’s fading love hotels is my favorite thing today. What happened to Babylon? Congratulations everybody! We ran through our resources even earlier this year! Speaking of things being awful: photographing…
Here’s your Monday morning photocrome. Flossing (maybe) doesn’t do anything WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Exhaustion as status symbol. The crows are way too smart and are coming to get us WAKE…
It’s Friday, so let’s start off with a trip through the history of tiki bars. Architecture in the age of mass shootings (everything is horrible). Don’t worry though, the universe…
Australia isn’t (quite) where you think it is, and that’s going to throw everything off. Niels Helmink’s Shopkeepers is your photo series for the day. As a West Coast child…
Not ready to leave the conventions behind, let’s compare the state roll call brags. Wait,why are all the corpse flowers blooming now? I’m going to miss the lil slimers but…
It’s hard to explain just how much time I spend thinking about hoisin sauce. Today is super cool fun news: climate change is literally unleashing anthrax now. Meanwhile, studying forgotten…