Morning Coffee

Does the iPad have an app that can simulate this walking bookshelf? Thing I have never wanted to see: Charles Burns’ Black Hole in real life. Starlee Kine wants you to cry. People in infomercials can’t do anything right.

Old Robots. New robot. Or maybe we’re the robots, man. Maybe we’re the robots. Apollo 11 launch in slow motion. The Best Show on WFMU gives us Rambocky.

“An outrageous conversation” between Playboy and David Bowie, from 1976. “An Oral History of the Insane Clown Posse Parodies.” “The 100 oldest registered dot-com domain names.” (via brainpicker) The end.

To celebrate my second week filling in for Dan Weiss, I present this tote bag. There are drawings in here of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a jazz combo. We should leave aliens alone because they are probably “nomads,…

Banksy visited Valencia Street in San Francisco. (You can read the Rumpus conversation with Banksy here.) Our new hundred dollars bills are so ugly. Someone out there could probably make them look nice though. Pictures of people who have sit…

I’m Walter. I’m going to be doing this while Dan Weiss is on vacation. But also, Dan Weiss told me to tell you to “look at this dang ol’ ant.” Last words. “You all brought me here to be executed,…

I’m going to be out of the country for a few weeks, I promise you you’ll be in good hands. This is what quantum physicists do for fun: negative twenty questions. At the intersection of art, architecture, and typography, you…

Bettie Page: FBI Consultant. Not feeling so hot these days? Google is watching out for you. A psychedelic (and awesome) look at the Glass House. Design as performance art. Objectively reviewing the animal kingdom. This all seems strangely familiar.