Morning Coffee

Look at these dang super galaxies! Look at this dang gender fluid lion! The new official world’s oldest man is an auschwitz survivor, which is pretty dang poignant. Bonobos are…

America needs y’all. we ALL need y’all. “Oh, it’s a lamprey.” Important news: European recycling centers are nice to look at. Hey look, it’s more of the Silk Road. The…

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Nina Simone’s face (is a thing I bet you’d like to read). Same: storks are just trash birds now. Criterion goes inside the Cronenberg archives and we’re…

Very important T-Rex news (all T-Rex news is important T-Rex news). Here’s your surreal 1970s erotica for the day. Where’s my Pussycar??? Maybe you’d like to look through Paul Klee’s…

Things might seem pretty bad right now, but at least wild horses are back. Bad sex in the animal kingdom. A brief history of allergies. Let’s all go eat invasive…

In my next life I’d like to come back as one of the Flying Cholitas. The Defense Dept. was SO PISSED about email (being created). Photographing life in the Russian…

And you may find yourself (listening to recordings made) at the bottom of the ocean. We’ve entered a new golden age of side saddle. Seems like a good time to…

Everything you know is wrong: the idea of taste zones comes from a mistranslation. Some birds are as smart as apes (all birds are terrible though). Today in ruin porn:…

We’re back, let’s all enjoy some horrible 1980s art. On the physics of Hell. I sure hope the world we live in is one with chimpanzee spiritual rituals. When schizophrenics…

After today we’ll be taking a long weekend, see you all on Tuesday, try to keep a clear head about things. Not to be all alarmist, but it’s feeling like…

So, what did the year in space do to Scott Kelly’s body? The Prohibition Party is still out there fighting the good fight. Never forget all the crazy ways we…

Give a moment of your day to remember the life of Claude Parent, the supermodernist. Oh hey look, it’s a mummy. My actual favorite things: relics of the space age. And…