I have a small obsession with tracking weird crimes. Although weird might be too narrow a definition. Unusual crimes. Bizarre crimes. Crimes that make you stop scrolling and think, Wait. What the actual heck? I don’t necessarily want to solve them. I’m not planning to start a corkboard […]
What’s the weirdest movie you’ve ever watched? There are weird movies. There are surreal movies. And then there is Naked Lunch, a movie that makes you wonder whether the filmmakers were on drugs, whether you should be on drugs to understand it, or whether the entire point is […]
There are days when I think the bears have figured out life better than we have. Recently, a black bear wandered into an Alaska shopping mall. Yes.A shopping mall. It apparently walked through the automatic doors, stole a peach, pooped on the floor, and left. And honestly? Respect. […]
I love a news story that makes me stop and think, Wait. What? Recently, someone in Washington called 911 because they heard loud banging in their house and thought they had a burglar. Reasonable. Except when the police arrived, the burglar turned out to be a bobcat sitting […]
I’ve been deep in an email purge lately. Archaeology of the digital kind. Dusting off threads, deleting ghosts, time-traveling one subject line at a time. Somewhere between “unsubscribe” and “why did I save this,” I stumbled on an email I sent to myself back in October 2022 with […]
I recently learned there’s a name for something I’ve been doing for about twenty years. Whimsy-maxxing! Of course there is. Leave it to the internet to take a perfectly organic personality trait and give it a hashtag. Apparently, whimsy-maxxing is a decor trend where you intentionally add joy […]
I don’t know when my morning commute turned into an armory run, but here we are. Some people find pennies on the sidewalk. Others find feathers, “signs from the universe,” or if they’re especially curated heart-shaped rocks. I, apparently, find weapons. Not metaphorical ones. Actual, honest-to-goodness, sharpened pieces […]
Apparently, somewhere in Spain, a physicist woke up and chose chaos. How so? By proving that humans, across cultures, ages, and continents, cannot for the life of us walk in a straight line. We drift left. Universally. Our feet drift left. Like some subtle, collective lean toward mischief […]
There is a new trend out of South Korea that feels both deeply innovative and slightly existential. They are called dopamine sites. You browse. You select. You add to cart. A courier accepts your order.You can even track the delivery in real time. And then nothing arrives. It […]
At approximately 2:00 a.m., which, clinically speaking, is the hour when good decisions go to die, a group of six individuals reportedly emerged from a manhole in Brooklyn. Let me repeat that. They didn’t open the manhole and go down. They came up. Like a plot twist.Like a […]
