This Video Raises Many Questions
Such as: 1. Why are there two camels in a tiny car? 2. How does one get two camels in a tiny car? And the most important question:
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Clickety-Clack
“I don’t even know what a computer is. I’ve heard about them a lot, but I don’t own one, and I don’t want one to own me. Typewriters you can…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We try sometimes, but it is pretty hard to complain. Fur coats are French street art. Underwater vacation homes are the best vacation homes. Speaking of: Jean Cocteau and Villa…
Join the Conversation
A fairly intense (but pleasant) discussion has broken out in the comments section of Steve Almond’s essay about editors, ambition, and dependence.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Aaaah! Vintage NASA pictures! Hurray! Will this be a continued theme? Chihuly’s boathouse. I love articles about voids. This is in French, but you know what else it is? A…
The Ultimate in Recycling
It’s just a coincidence that I’ll be teaching the Wendell Berry poem “Enriching the Earth” tomorrow, a poem which ends with the lines “And so what was heaviest / and…
Chats with Random Men #4: James
Note: These are actual chats conducted on Facebook with men who instant message the musician Alina Simone. If you too keep getting scammed for money by Russian women, you won’t…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are a New Yorker you are drinking all sorts of tiny tiny shrimps. Literary jewels. Flavorwire has your crazy wonderful spill photography du jour. A look at Alexander…
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis theorizes that if a language has no word for a certain concept, then the speakers of that language cannot understand that concept. Though this has been disproved,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is going to be a good day I think. Hellof brains in jars. Another day, another set of Russian fruit sculptures. It is always a good idea to talk…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/30-9/5
This week, moving into my new apartment takes much longer than I thought it would, this guy talks about UFOs at Amnesia, The Exploratorium gets spacey new installation art, and…
Notable New York, This Week 8/31 – 9/5
This week in New York Kristen Hersh is a Rat, Karen Hayes and Victoria Bruce are held Hostage, Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates with storytelling, Ian Hobson plays for us, Stephanie…