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Goodnight Hotmail, You Sweet Prince
A eulogy for no one’s favorite email service.
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We Listened to Random Access Memories
Is the new Daft Punk record the ultimate internet album?
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Three Questions for Timmy the Galaxy
A quick chat with one of the universe’s brighter galaxies.
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Weapon of Mass Crustacean
“Perhaps some psychologist can tell me why it feels so good to inhabit a colossal cosmic crustacean and wreak havoc across the solar system. But I don’t particularly care why.”
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Notes from the Bigoted Ornithologist Association
Presenting new research from the most obstinately intolerant scholars of birds.
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Recommendations, 5/10
This week: eating chocolate, mediocre genre TV, radio plays, and absurdist 3D animation.
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The Garden State Soundtrack Will Change Your Life
“Indie music never belonged to anyone, but at least in the early ’00s, it was easier to pretend it did.”
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The Metamorphosis: On Amanda Bynes’s Twitter
“Watching the videos Bynes posts on her Twitter doesn’t feel like watching someone giving a poor performance. It feels like watching someone lose her mind.”
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Progress
So this is growing up.
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Some Luck
“The transgender community is all about hierarchies: how well you pass, how much surgery you’ve had, how much strife you’ve been through. The age you came out at is just another ladder to count rungs on.”
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Sam the Answer Man
An advice columnist goes to desperate lengths to reconnect with an ex-girlfriend.
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Border Cops to the North of Me, Border Cops to the South, Here I Am
“The mustache cop had the idea that I was a suicidal drug smuggling weirdo on a dark mission to Canada.”
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Pizza Power
A comic about David Shatraw, the voice of Michelangelo in the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles touring show.
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The Undead Will Always Be There For You
Enter DayZ, the ultimate zombie survival horror game, which is unlike every other zombie survival horror game.
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The First Names of Every Tom Cruise Role
Or how to name your white, male baby.
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Recommendations, 4/26
This week: improv comedy, underrated period films, comparing NBA players to obscure Playstation games.
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Andrew Johnson, or How I Put Myself Back Together
Sometimes the cure for heartbreak is the biography of a disgraced president.
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An Illustrated Guide to Louis Armstrong’s House
The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York preserves the tricked out domestic trappings of one of America’s most influential jazz musicians.
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Call Girl: What I Learned During My Year as a Customer Service Representative
“If you think you’re talking to an expert when you call a customer service center, you’re probably not.”
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The Cruelest Month: Reading William Wordsworth
Can a poetry skeptic appreciate the most dreaded of all verse: a high school English classic?
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How Arrested Development Saved My Relationship
If there’s no I in Teamocil, then there’s no I in “long-distance relationship.”
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Plan B From Outer Space: Touched Screen
The first installment in a new serial time-travel romance. This one involves a sex tablet.
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Close Up: Georgia Webber
Comics artist Georgia Webber talks about crowd-funding her comic series DUMB, her process, and being unable to talk for six months.
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Rhetorical Wrestling
Little-known fact: the first wrestlers modeled their moves on Greek rhetorical devices.
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The Cruelest Month: Reading Frank O’Hara
For National Poetry Month (and to celebrate Mad Men‘s return), editors Darryl and Jonathan discuss a poem by Frank O’Hara.
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Recommendations, 4/12
This week, our staff suggests new comics, Kickstarter’d magazines, and the practicality of life-size replicas of science-fiction spaceships.
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Does Give Up Hold Up?
The Postal Service’s Give Up is ten years old. How does the album sound today?
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The Six Months I Worked in a Brothel
Prostitution is legal in Canada, but working as a booking girl isn’t.
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Manic Pixel Dream Girl, Part 3
What happens when you take the games away from a gamer?
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The Cruelest Month: On Being a Failed Poet
For one afternoon long ago, Jonathan Gourlay was a poetic genius.