'clipping each word so it faced the world alone'
"I've no fixed place on account of I'm often late from my shift." "Churched" by Maria...
inspired by a fabricated image of the past
The truth is, the Marcos victory was largely a democratic outcome in the narrow electoral sense,...
If you think you recognize this song, you're right
!!! (chk chk chk) reinterprets a familiar REM tune in a way you wouldn't expect.
A robot walks into the woods..
Matthew McCormack describes encountering a delivery robot in the woods. That is all.
Le Vidéo Club de David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg goes to a video store and talks about some of his favorite movies. (23-minute...
One way to start a stampede
The Calgary Stampede has released its lineup of midway food for 2022. From Bad-Breath Lemonade ("ice-cold...
Leave the Sweatshirt at Home. Dining Dress Codes Are Back.
A number of restaurants are betting that Americans want to get gussied up again, but not...
'I think I'll be OK if I don't get the album back'
The young Yankees fan who lost his autographs [ESPN]
Ukraine war, month three, tides are turning
The war continues. The illegal and criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine nears the third month of...
Newton's cradle, Gangnam style
SLYT, ~2 min. Metal spheres swinging and bouncing off each other in increasingly inventive ways, all...
New Look, Same Great Look
Art professor Kim Beil in Lapham's Quarterly on the advent of color photography and the complicated...
Welcome to cluttercore
While I was scrolling deep in the trenches of TikTok one morning, I had a visceral...
The best page in the Transformers Wiki
The diminutive Wheelie is an Autobot child / But don't let your guard down; he gets...
An Entirely Serviceable and Entertaining Debut Album
Buried in These Hands for Years: Thomas Dolby's 'The Golden Age of Wireless' Turns 40 Europa...
Daily Duotrigordle
Put your skills to the test and solve thirty-two Wordles at once! You have 37 guesses...
Weird covers for weird people
RAMMSTEIN - Amerika (WAY TOO AMERICAN Cover) This is what happens when it two Italian multi-instrumentalist...
The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
"The only reason it's sold is to have some alternative [to pseudoephedrine] to offer consumers, even...
A Movement That’s Quietly Reshaping Democracy For The Better
Imagine you receive an invitation one day from your mayor, inviting you to serve as a...
I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die
If It Feels Like a New Dark Age Is Falling... That's Because It Is. Why We're...
Shift your vibe
These days you don't need to worry about not knowing stuff. Just type your personal failings...
'No, the real explanation was more simple: our songs were bad.'
In last night's Eurovision Song Contest [Fanfare], the UK came second with the entry sung by...
the one where the branding is a disgusted emoticon
Windows XP - 2022 Edition a mock-up mash-up of the Windows XP and Windows 11 design...
A Seattle School Fundraiser Is Questioning School Fundraising Itself
Challenging the school PTA fundraising norm, 12 of south Seattle's most diverse and low-income (Title 1)...
I will be off soon
Olivia Colman Greatest Award Speeches | Compilation is ~17m long, but is an entire human journey...
Hell Creek
Dinosaur Apocalypse Newly found fossils may reveal an unprecedented snapshot of the day the dinosaurs died....
Trader Joe's Annual Customer Choice Awards
US grocery retailer Trader Joe's this year announced the winners of its 13th Annual Customer Choice...
The World’s a Mess
The World's a Mess. So They've Stopped Saving for Tomorrow. "No, I'm not saving for retirement....
'Thank you for looking for me'
Last February, Polygon published an article about the Video Game History Foundation's search for the creator...
Amid Bay Area housing crisis, tiny bunk bed 'pods' offered for $800/mo.
While the $800-a-month rent may seem steep for a stacked bunk bed pod, the average rental...
Love can build a bridge/Don't you think it's time? Naomi Judd 1946-2022
Naomi Judd, one-half of the musical duo The Judds with her daughter Wynonna, died April 30,...
Shall I mourn your decline/With some Thunderbird wine
Remembering Ian Dury on what would have been his 80th birthday. Shall I mourn your decline/With...
Spinal Tap II
Set to be released in 2024, 40 years after the original 'Spinal Tap': 'Spinal Tap II'...
The fates already f*d me sideways
Ethel Cain, Hayden Anhedönia's dark, evil twin, has released her first album, Preacher's Daughter, described by...
Indian Biscuits: 1947-2022
The story of the Nation State in five biscuits: Parle G, Milk Bikis, Karachi Bakery's Fruit...
Remittance by the Barrel
"I send barrels home every six months," says Niko Bristol, who relocated from Grenada to Brooklyn...
Distant sound of thunder, moving out on the moor
The band Sub Sub, with Melanie Williams on guest vocals, scored a hit with Ain't no...
a piece of sports equipment, not lingerie
Lisa Lindahl, Hinda Miller, and Polly Smith are among this year's inductees for the US National...
Revisiting The Rolling Stones’ Unsurpassed 'Exile On Main Street'
Upon casual listening, a magnificent spontaneity seems to permeate The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street...
The center of our galactic home
The "earth-size" Event Horizon Telescope has captured a second image of a black hole and this...
War, death, destruction
La Conquista is an opera based, more or less, on a lost an score by Vivaldi...
she doesn’t trust the words to do their work
What Makes a Great, or Terrible, Audiobook Performance? The case for doing less. Those of us...
The Russians and John McCain
Political strategist Steve Schmidt, who worked on campaigns for GW Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and most notably...
‘Oh, my gosh, I’m playing the Clash... in the White House!’
The Untold Story of the White House's Weirdly Hip Record Collection Jimmy Carter's grandson is unlocking...
How to Find Lost Objects
Professor Solomon gives us twelve principles for how to find something you've lost. Possibly one of...
Restaurant for Vultures
When they arrive in Thailand, the migratory vultures are often very tired from a long flight....
Helen Keller, Socialist
Helen Keller's Socialism Has Been Whitewashed. The politics of Helen Keller: Socialism and disability. How I...
an impressive simultaneity of bloody faces and noisy enharmonics
Luigi Russolo's Cacophonous Futures is a thoughtful introduction to the Futurist composer and his mechanical noise...
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Joseph Pulitzer is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established in 1917 as a...