Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to discuss roadside mermaids. Radio bursts from beyond the galaxy! Here are Einstein’s timecards. Also: science guns. This is why we can’t have nice…
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“The First Boy To See Something Electric In Me”
For smashing new website The Toast, Anne Helen Petersen writes about the particular exuberance of half-childish first love and—this is not a spoiler, it’s announced in the piece’s second paragraph—how she…
“There Is No Prejudice Here Against Women”
There are more women in executive jobs today than there were fifteen years ago, five years ago, or a year ago, and men’s reluctance to give them executive rank seems…
A New Way to Read Comics
Only a small percentage of blind people commonly use Braille—and that number drops even further when it comes to reading comic books. With a new Braille-based comic book, Danish designer…
Notable San Francisco 7/8-7/13
Monday 7/8: The SHOUT is on in the East Bay, join local raconteurs and submit your own story for a six-minute wildcard spot on stage. 7:30 sliding scale, Grand Lake…
Not Your Average Mexican Tourist Destination
I can’t afford a $3,000 American tooth implant, but luckily, I’m spending this summer at my Somali aunt and uncle’s house in Yuma, Arizona—a town only ten miles away from…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
As the last of the smoke from the 4th of July fireworks drifts away, you rub your eyes, and there in front of you, you see…the weekend Rumpus roundup. On…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Russian Billionaires will (try and) outlive us all. Important news: birds are hella smart. We are still paying for exactly one Civil War veteran’s pension. Here we go… Sky Deutschland…
From Your Mother
Sylvia Plath is known as a writer and a poet, but she almost became a visual artist instead. Plath’s daughter, Frieda Hughes, who is also a painter and a poet,…
Happy Independence Day!
We’ll be taking it easy around here today, but we hope you’ll find some time to read Roxane Gay’s excellent interview with Terry Tempest Williams. The discussion, which touches on democracy, community,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’ll be laying low for the Holiday. Morning Coffee will be back next Monday. Happy Birthday America.
From Manic Pixie Dream Girl to Stable Banshee Real Woman
“I’m fascinated by this character and what she means to people,” writes Laurie Penny about the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype, “because the experience of being her—of playing her—is so…