Just another reason to love Japan: Kyoto’s Iwatayama Monkey Park. The sweetest montage video you’ll see all day. Pretty darn fantastic dirty car art. (via Flavorwire) Ok, this video is…
The stay is lifted, sort of. Judge Vaughn Walker decided today that same-sex marriages can resume in California on August 18. You can read the final stay order here. Why…
Tony Judt, the British historian and social critic, died last Friday at 62 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Although it left him nearly…
America: home of jet busses. My love of old books may not be as innocent as I’d assumed. Everyone loves a good 19th century panorama. Giant frozen lake art huzzah!…
This week we kick off a new blog where Brooklyn-based singer/writer Alina Simone teaches us how to use the Internet for its penultimate purpose: chatting with random men. Beginning with…
Vintage Tokyo subway manners posters (yes)! This is a literary website sometimes, so we should probably link to these newly redesigned F Scott Fitzgerald covers. I’m not going to lie…
The Great Typo Hunt chronicles the journey of two conscientious vandals, Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Hurston, as they attempt to reform our nation’s signage. Listen to the story at Talk…
This week Roseanne Cash remains Composed, Mark Cohen is Beat, Martin Amis makes it to NY!, 826NYC presents Here We Go Magic with a reading by Chuck Klosterman, Brooklyn is…
On the one hand the world is a little less magical, on the other it’s pretty cool to understand how the Bermuda Triangle works. A little Chilean architecture porn to…
Please enjoy this look at “It’s Great to Be Alive!,” a safety manual from back in the day that “contains straightforward advice for children and shows in rather graphic detail…
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, Nerd Nite, the first episode of Literary Death Match with new producer, m.g. Martin, Ferris Plock’s latest solo show, and a pretty sweet looking lineup…