Morning Coffee

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…

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.…

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…

Today in actual important news: we appear to have officially hit the climate change breaking point. Fun! As long as we’re feeling freaked out, this frog from Panama is gone…

I don’t usually link to obituaries, but I can’t believe I missed Herschell Gordon Lewis’s passing. Herschell would probably appreciate knowing just how murderous animals are. Good news everyone! the…

You get so caught up in the presidential debate that you completely miss that Europa has geysers of water. TBH Europa has always been a game changer. But also sometimes…

Don’t worry, there were viking cats. It me. On the ecosystem in waiting of escaped pets. Forget the Dyson Sphere, we need a Dyson Swarm! What is life but a…