- The Rocky Horror Picture Show; now and forever; the cast (even Meatloaf) reunites for the 40th.
- New York in the ’70s: “…everyone who read Andy Warhol’s Interview knew one another.“
- Brazenhead, the bookstore in an apartment, comes back to life.
- Print and read: How to buy a bohemian escapade; or, why libertarian moguls just love Burning Man.
- For hetero normative couple’s night, your best choice for a movie would be either Lord of the Rings (any of the series) or Wizard of Oz, based on this.
- Captain Marvel, feminism, and Bitch Planet.
- This Uber driver’s average hourly earnings: $5.83.
- Fantasy sports fans rendered as a crazy guy with a knife.
- Print and read: Bernie Sanders, “…the last person you’d want to be stuck on a desert island with. Two weeks of lectures about health care, and you’d look for a shark and dive in.“
Category: Omnium Gatherum
Weekend Reading: October 9, 2015
- After each gun massacre, the new hospital pizza tradition.
- Fewer guns, fewer shootings—it’s not that complicated.
- The lieutenant governor who thinks that “Fellow Christians who are serious about their faith” need to own a handgun.
- The ever-shrinking number of Americans who owns guns still control the debate.
- Ben Carson, superhero.
- Stephen King, pro gun-control gun owner: “Can’t put a seatbelt on a semi-automatic.”
- No, a gun-owning citizenry wouldn’t have stopped the Holocaust.
- 90 people a day.
- Here are the people who could do something.
- Print and read: The idea that valiant gun-owners can defend everyone from mass shootings is a myth.
Weekend Reading: October 2, 2015
- It’s time: Translating Shakespeare into English.
- So, the idea is to…?
- Ikea for refugees.
- Unfortunately for all the Lynne Truss types out there, punctuation is, has been, and will always be frustratingly inconsistent.
- Is there water on Mars? If so, it’s all part of the liberal agenda.
- The Martian: One astronaut’s review.
- Diagnosis: Gay marriage derangement syndrome.
- 20 or 30 years ago, Americans eating and exercising exactly the same as they would today gained less weight.
- Print and read: “Yesterday’s poets are today’s detectives”—An excerpt from Patti Smith’s new book.
Weekend Reading: September 25, 2015
- Is your ad-blocking app destroying journalism?
- Yes, it could happen.
- The doomsday seed vault is opened for Syria.
- Coming soon to a drone near you: Lasers.
- Ignoring new Pope when they feel like it.
- Refugees and fragile states as the century’s defining issue.
- A few Scandinavians are responsible for pretty much all hit music; Or, how to get from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Kelly Clarkson in one chorus change.
- Making the classics all smutty.
- Print and read: The “Forgotten Battalion” fights to save themselves from suicide.
Weekend Reading: September 18, 2015
- Here’s what to do about St. Louis; the full report.
- The billionaires who wanna be president.
- When trying to make yourself a martyr ends up hurting your cause.
- The surprising millennial fastidiousness when it comes to grammar and spelling.
- Which candidate thinks African Americans are not actually (legally speaking) citizens?
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The glorious weirdness of Soviet bus stops.
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“Complaining about book prices: $20.00” and other great bookstore signage.
- Print and read: When Ted Bundy’s mother talked to the mother of one of his victims.
Weekend Reading: September 11, 2015
- Political pundits on the (maybe) verge of extinction.
- Scarlett Johannson’s attempt to stop the publication of a French novel about a woman who appears to be Scarlett Johannson, fails.
- And the cycle of evil is now complete.
- A chart of where in Europe the refugees are going.
- New language: American.
- Print and read: The banlieues of France, where bleak postwar architecture meets alienation, religious fanaticism, and occasionally hope.
Weekend Reading: September 4, 2015
- Over half of the psychology papers being published maybe shouldn’t be.
- The link that wasn’t: Dre, Tupac, and Burning Man.
- “We are not a big city anymore.”
- When it came to autism, Dustin Hoffman didn’t help.
- Bonnet rippers and other tales of the Amish publishing mini-boom.
- No, there won’t be a third Harper Lee novel.
- Print and read: Totally awesome excerpts from Cameron Crowe’s original Fast Times at Ridgemont High book.
Weekend Reading: August 28, 2015
- The 1815 Tambora eruption caused darkened skies, apocalyptic gloom, blizzards in June, and changed art to boot.
- In China, plenty of new cities, just no people to fill them.
- What’s “hybrid war“?
- Maybe it wasn’t Brownie’s fault. Says Brownie.
- How would you even deport 11 million people?
- Something else that the Stanford Prison Experiment didn’t consider.
- Print and read: El Salvador’s murder rate is nearly 1 out of every 1,000 people.
Weekend Reading: August 21, 2015
- Ferguson, St. Louis, and how it feels to be ignored while being gawked at: “We are a showcase of shame, with no end in sight.”
- Who’s watching the drone that almost crashed into the plane you’re on?
- Back in vogue: “Illegals.”
- New in defense: Blimps.
- This week in espionage: Hamas detains dolphin.
- Trump’s bill for Mexico.
- The average American life, quantified.
- A good reason to stop buying prawns.
- Print and read: Trigger warnings and the culture of intellectual infantilization of American colleges.
Weekend Reading: August 14, 2015

- BerkShares to Bowie pounds: The advent of artisanal currency.
- Remember the Columbia House mail-order record deal? (11 albums for a penny, get a 12th for free!) This is how they could afford to do that.
- Why is the reaction to the current heroin epidemic and the crack epidemic from decades ago so different?
- There’s a purge going on in North Korea that’s claimed over 70 officials.
- Trump’s secret gift to the GOP.
- Signers of the Designers’ Hippocratic Oath promise to stop working on evil-causing products.
- Busy making the streets of Ferguson even more troubled.
- What the Corn Belt’s fertilizer addiction does to the climate.
- A short history of a very odd art.
- There are now almost 16 million fewer Americans without health insurance.
- Print and read: Why did it take so long for the West to comprehend that the Holocaust was happening?
Weekend Reading: August 7, 2015

- The kids of summer who can’t swim.
- Everybody agrees: Eleanor Roosevelt for the $10 bill.
- Corporate comic heroes of Marvel and their anti-capitalist message.
- The Daily Show’s greatest Jon Stewart hits; an oral history (with video!).
- Why women are always freezing in the office.
- Did you know chocolate can help you lose weight?! Well, it can’t. The story of an all-too-easy science journalism hoax.
- Now Tom Brady and the Patriots are learning what kids in Baltimore and Ferguson already knew: it’s not fair.
- Print and read: Ah, boredom.
Weekend Reading: July 31, 2015

- Yet more examples of polls getting everything wrong.
- Minorities have moved to the suburbs and whites are returning to urban cores, but segregation has actually increased since the 1960s.
- Film studios and doomsday preppers, together at last in the salt mines underneath Kansas.
- He read eight books by Trump so you don’t have to.
- What happens when all the traders go home?
- The week’s most unintentionally hilarious headline.
- New Pope ticking more people off … in a good way.
- The love affair between Japan and moss.
- The birth and long life of the blood-curdling “Wilhelm Scream,” a film sound editor’s last, best cliche.
- Print and read: Hunting a pirate fishing ship around the world.
Weekend Reading: July 24, 2015

- Greatest movie soundtrack playlist ever?
- Silicon Valley’s whiteness problem; or, can you hack racism?
- China is building a new mega-city near Beijing that’s going to be the size of Kansas. No, there don’t appear to be any good restaurants yet.
- And Kasich makes … 16?
- You can use satellite photography to figure out how well your local Chipotle is doing.
- This car is no longer under your control.
- Print and read: Finding Nemo to WALL-E; Pixar films as exhortations to efficient capitalism.
- Bonus print and read: Douglas Coupland — eventually we might just be our data.
Weekend Reading: July 17, 2015

- Secrets of the Illuminati revealed! Sort of.
- Come to Cuba, everyone else is.
- Your bacon is too cheap.
- According to the town of Whitesboro, this official seal is not racist.
- The biggest threat to Americans isn’t terrorism but this….
- The return of Bloom County?
- Print and read: Ta-Nehisi Coates as the new James Baldwin?
Weekend Reading: July 10, 2015

- Piketty: Germany never repaid its war debts, so where do they get off lecturing Greece?
- People are still giving lots of money to Ted Cruz.
- Denver weed growers using too much power.
- Homer Simpson meets Donald Trump.
- Scribd, which offers unlimited ebooks for a monthly fee, sharply cutting back on romance and erotica “because readers are gorging themselves.”
- Future of American military aviation: The trillion-dollar fighter plane that can’t dogfight.
- If you’re arrested in New York for a nonviolent crime, no more need to post cash bail; here’s why doing that in the first place might be unconstitutional.
- In Texas textbooks, the Civil War apparently had little to do with slavery.
- Print and read: Do you need to know what “stagflation” means? Or, the uses of cultural literacy.




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