Haruki Murakami has a giant T-shirt collection, including some he doesn’t wear outside. “There are limits when you’re over 70.”
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From NPR, interviews with Black Americans about what it’s like to live in Japan instead of the United States. “We’ve been trained, we’ve been programmed, that people are afraid of us. Here, I don’t get that. I feel good here.”
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Thierry Mandon’s performance art involves living on the outside—literally the outside—of buildings.
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Waterfront residents of Lake Geneva, Wisc., receive their summer post from “mail jumpers.” Each jumper makes 45 to 60 jumps a day.
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Whence the Chinese takeout container? It was patented in 1890 to carry oysters, a popular snack.
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Some nice timelapse footage of Yosemite’s Half Dome being hiked at night. Though you’ll probably want to mute the sound.
San Francisco is spending millions to custom-produce 3,300 public trash cans that are prettier than what’s commercially available.
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Lauren Oyler goes shopping and discovers “table season”—when vintage shops see a surge of tables big enough to seat holiday meals.
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Nisha Chittal cops to enjoying pumpkin spice lattes sincerely, even if it suggests she’s “mall” or a “basic bitch.”
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