Morning Coffee

So what happens if a third-party candidate keeps anyone from a majority in the electoral college (we’re living in weird times folks)? Give a moment of your day to appreciating the humble recorder. Same. On the architecture of afrofuturism. Let’s…

I bet you’d like to know more about that secret society of hunters. Let’s all take a tour of an unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright house. Beautiful toilets of old Paris. Actually literally the opposite of opposites attract. Leaving you with…

The question we’ve all been wondering: what books did Shackleton bring to Antarctica? California Topiaries is your photoseries for the day. Lake Michigan is, like, SO clear right now buddies. What is up with the Forest Grove mystery noise? And…

Victorian era cosmetic arsenic eating (is a thing that happened). Glad to know I’m not the only person who’s wondered if you can suntan through a window. Very important vintage (mostly) Australian travel posters. Maybe dogs can see magnetic fields?…

Start your day with the sound of millions of hungry jellyfish (as one does). Very bad news weird Chinese architecture fans. Meanwhile: let’s all take a trip back to the alternate universe of modernist houses. Why do people so badly…

In the end aren’t we ALL just 43 giant presidential busts rotting in a field? Getting harder and harder to keep this thing from being political, but in honor of JEB, Politico has a good roundup of America’s greatest political…

Good news! Rumpus alum Jon Adams has solved homelessness. Here are some very important pictures of Germans with people dressed as polar bears. Thinking a lot about Mirny. Sounds to me like we’ve got ourselves the beginning of a horticultural…

Hey look! It’s some lost JRR Tolkien poetry. Today in important bummers: online shopping is killing the world. Photographing the neglected modernist estates of Paris (is a thing you could do). But, like, where do puffins go in the winter?…

Actual space graffiti. (Hurray!) Flying kites with Alexander Graham Bell. The future is all parasitic architecture. Let’s all go on a tour of the Utopian Dystopia of Kazakhstan buildings. Important news item: the eye is pretty neat!

Look, if you want to watch octopuses bone you’re going to have a LITTLE bit of cannibalism. Not to get to Political, but it’s good time to revisit the lessons of Abe Fortas. It’s always a good day to think…

Start your weekend with some 1930s Russian book jackets. “But can I look at some Australian children’s books too?” Yes you can look at some Australian children’s books too. Very important (and disappointing) mammoth meat mystery news. Here are your…

Look I know I’m not supposed to link to this sort of thing but don’t you want to know about Bubbles the Chimp’s twilight years? Birds are going to burn us all alive. Another Vietnam. Let’s all take a moment…