Morning Coffee

This weekend is Memorial Day and I’m heading off on tour with my band The Yellow Dress to play Camp Daze fest in Missoula, we’ll be taking a short break…

When all is said and done, and rock and roll is all about forgotten, who will historians remember? So much Soviet Brutlist architecture. The death and birth of American Dam.…

Disappearing London, 1870s style. Here’s that 1890 map of indigenous American languages you were asking about. Here’s that beatnik dictionary you were asking about. Very old beer. Meanwhile, something new:…

A brief history of the giraffe. Very important world scrabble competition news. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines ok cool thanks great. And so it begins: scientists are controlling the…

Mainly just trying to not be a jerk since 1984. It is imperative that we invade these five fictional balkan countries. The bizarre and sordid life of Harrison G Dyar…

For four days, Portugal was (kind of accidentally) the greenest country on earth. Today in the Anthropocene: the shape of cities shape the weather. Art of Paris 68. Going back…

We’ll be back tomorrow morning bright and early. Everything is everything. Thank you for being here.

If you think I’m not going to link to pictures of the dawn of the Soviet space program you clearly don’t know me. Can we meet halfway here and just…

Actually we’re probably just in a draught forever. #moletruth. Bummer news: the Bavinger House is no more. A rainy year in the UK means brand new sink holes and rediscovered…

Every day is a good to appreciate Moscow’s metro stations. Hey look, they’re summiting Everest again! Hey look, old computers. Asmara is the fascist modernist architecture city of your wildest…

The transcendental revelations of astronauts (file under: great, thanks). Catch panoramic map fever! Sometimes your AI class TA is an AI because that’s the world we live in. Rethinking how…