Morning Coffee

When I go, I want to go on a euthanasia-coaster. A look at the history of Science Fiction. Icons Zootomicae. Admit it, you want to look at 1960s Paris fashion. What did you do when YOU were nine? (Probably not…

See, it WAS the cell phones. What your literary tote bag says about you (as a writer for the Rumpus and an employee of a non-Green Apple sf bookstore, this conflicts me). It is accidentally illegal to have sex in…

Sometimes people care about things like literary hair. Vintage art machines are neat! What people draw when they draw about being happy. Patents, you know? Polish posters for American westerns (are pretty much my reason for living).

Today in exciting concepts: Dolphin Talking! Roller Coaster Science! Zombie Ants! Early Aviation! Soviet Kids Textbooks!

Today in old books: The Cabinet of Curiosity and The Key of Hell (!!!!) When people hold underwater photography contests, everyone wins. Did someone say space boat? Japan sure does like baby robots. Human-powered helicopters are pretty neat too.

Life in a cult used to be so much cooler. Competitive Swinging is an art installation I can get behind. Similarly I am a big fan of typographical illustrations. Life gives you broken china, make broken china brass knuckles. These…

Maybe we all came from this dude. Life aboard a spy plane (way to go world). Similarly: let’s all check out James Bond first editions. How to swim in the 17th Century. Lastly: BIRD HATS.

Something’s in the air, feelin’ pretty sciencey. But first here are some pictures of clouds. This totally explains how my identity got stolen by a koala. Maybe we all came from asteroids! Maybe animals can breathe for us. Maybe we…

First things first: DON’T EAT ARMADILLOS. Norway, Photochrom style. The Social Animal is a really weird book. Here are some things made out of staples. Also Ottoman architecture is pretty great.

Every day is a good day to look at antique mug shots. Did you know there are architects capable of designing art museums today who are NOT Frank Gehry? Drawing Autism (this is really fascinating, fyi). Wait, did someone say…

It’s a Monday so I can link to things like baby aardvarks and Werner Herzog voiceovers to get you through the day. I really hope the Finger-nose stylus takes off. In Portland, bikes are more important than money. It is…

Sup with all these tornadoes, bros? Behold the Google pedicab. Serbian children are way more surreal than you or I (this is assuming that you are not a Serbian child). Emotion-based drawing machines are pretty cute. If I am reading…