A few months ago, I posted the video for Donald Fagen's 1982 now-classic track, "New Frontier." At the time, I said that I couldn't get this tune out of my head. It hasn't left. Here is a group of quarantined musicians doing a wonderful cover of it. [H/t Steve Silberman] Image: YouTube
From the Denver Post: Colorado recorded a 40% decrease in suicides in March and April as social-distancing policies aimed at slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus kept residents home, according to provisional death-certificate data from the state health department. The data helps paint a complex picture of the mental and emotional toll of the […]
Nate Powell is the writer and artist behind About Face, a brilliant webcomic about America's obsession with fascist fashion. His latest comic, Hide Out, is less of a macro-scale political analysis, and more of a quiet, reflective, internal piece about life in apocalyptic scenarios — but it's just as powerful, and just as much worth reading. […]
Earlier this spring, more than 20 members of Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos pan flute orchestra left their homes in Bolivia and embarked on a European tour. They arrived in Germany on March 10, right as that country's government imposed a ban on large gatherings to fight the spread of coronavirus. Within days, their bus […]
This is an awesome woodworking project gallery — making a table out of dowel rods. You can follow the creator Make Things on YouTube and IMGUR.
Some people take their libations and isolations very seriously.
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut — which, as far as teenage work went, was pretty formative and fantastic. While the campus is based in Eli Whitney's original factory, the museum itself is more of an experimental learning workshop that uses alternative teaching […]
Someone beat Hemingway's challenge by a single word. pic.twitter.com/qtgzYo2zkK — mugrimm (@mugrimm) April 29, 2020 Top image: JD Hancock / Flickr (CC 2.0)
I've had a busy few weeks of moving and renovating my home in the middle of a pandemic while also trying to work a full-time. So naturally, I decided to relax by … making a 4-song live EP of protest songs about unions and workers, to raise money for the Massachusetts COVID-19 Relief Fund for […]
"So how were they? Not bad. Some of them were kind of dry, but for the most part they tasted how you'd expect."
"They want us to where a face mask??? I DONT THANK SO." "I'm not gonna be ruled by common sense precautions to keep everyone safe and healthy!" Brent Terhune does a very good Southern Redneck Guy Who Watches Fox News, and he's recently taken on the MAGA/White Nationalist/???? types gathering in weird astroturfy rallies around […]
Hey, when life hands you virii, make cosplay. Zoidberg cosplay.
All for the love of Animal Crossing in the coronavirus pandemic.
Zero reason to be "bored" out there, people. Take inspiration from the Heller family who made –in their "spare time" — a shot-by-shot recreation of Journey's "Separate Ways" music video! It's SO GOOD.
Wow, man. Some of us take on more extreme projects during the Great Coronavirus Quarantine than others.
Cannabis use in America reportedly reached an all-time high in March, 2020, as lockdown measures aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus went into effect in many communities throughout the country.
I'm a lifelong fan of Radiohead, and I feel like so much of their music foresaw the emotional tone of the moment we're in now.
