A girl opens a book. She is drawn into a world of imagination. A light hole appears — a portal between reality and story.
Monday, April 13, 2026
Your Opinion, Please
Every week between 1997 and 2007 Montana listeners called Yellowstone Public Radio to respectfully express their views on a wide range of topics.
Straw Face
This is an interesting look. I might lay off the ‘miracle creams’ and wear a bunch of straws on my face instead.
Face through the straw holes
by u/casual_life4 in Damnthatsinteresting
Via Memo Of The Air
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Sunday Links
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Mr. Nag makes a decent poached egg. Mine, on the other hand, “ assume the form of a lopsided Frisbee wearing a Victorian nightgown.” How to Make a Perfect Poached Egg
Noun Sense Is a daily word association game where you guess the most common noun that follows the adjective. There goes my weekend. Via Web Curios
Buy your own Eames House This kit-of-parts product supports the Eameses' overall vision of universal architecture for everyone. Via Things Magazine
A roundup of Weird Lady Lit
In Robert Heinlein’s 1959 short story “All You Zombies“ all the major characters turn out to be the same person, who takes on different roles through time travel and sex reassignment.
Inquiring minds want to know: Worldwide toilet paper consumption
11 Million Coloured Buildings: Bert Spaan has mapped all 11,333,878 buildings in the Netherlands, colouring buildings by their year of construction.
A writer grapples with the troubled advertisement of her family’s steakhouse.
I guarantee that some of these kids were traumatized: Olaf the robot from the movie Frozen dies in front of an audience at Disneyland Paris
“Any of these could be a gold mine” This teenager buys abandoned storage lockers.
In 1535, a senior courtier to King Henry VIII built a nice country house outside London, and nearly 500 years later, it’s still there. See Hackney’s oldest building.
The Lonely Funeral project was started by Dutch poet Frank Starikin in 2002. As of 2018, over 300 “lonely funerals” had been attended by poets who wrote a custom poem about their life and read it at their funeral, offering dignity to perfect strangers. Via swissmiss
Architypes: Lots of photos of French storefronts. I like this sort of thing. Via Web Curios
How To Gain Your Guests’ Approval (You’re welcome)
In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. He still works for Apple. NYT gift link
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Happy Louie Louie Day To Those Who Celebrate It
It’s International Louie Louie Day!! The Kingsmen's recording was the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed, but nonexistent, obscenity of the lyrics The investigation ended without prosecution.
Legends - Trailer
I'm a Steve Coogan fan. It's uncanny how every time I quit Netflix they put on something that I’d like to see.
The Art Of George V
This is a charming film about the life and art of George Voronovsky, a Ukrainian immigrant who retired to South Beach in the 1970s.
Friday, April 10, 2026
Cats Who Kill
Another goodie from Adventures In Sacred Cows. The true star of the show, my cat Carmen, appears on the closing card at the 3:05 minute mark. Now that she is famous she’s become more insufferable than ever.
In This Hotel Your Roommates Are Birds
The biosphere room at Sweden’s Treehotel, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in collaboration with ornithologist Ulf Öhman, is surrounded by 350 birdhouses.
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