Japan Inside a sleep pod in a Japanese railway station Gareth Branwyn

henn na hotel Robot-staffed "Weird Hotel" in Japan unveiled today Carla Sinclair

politics JD Vance brags that he told his 7-year-old to "shut the hell up"about Pokemon when Trump called him (video) Ellsworth Toohey

autism Young woman overcomes fear to order breakfast Mark Frauenfelder

Comic Books Review: "Boys Weekend" is like a queer "Cabin in the Woods" for the CryptoBro era Thom Dunn

hotels Diet water, melted ice cream, and other unusual room service requests David Pescovitz

art The Last Supper Museum in Douglas, Arizona, has hundreds of Last Suppers on display Jennifer Sandlin

burning man I spotted the Temple Bus, a famous Burning Man mutant vehicle Jennifer Sandlin

Boing Boing Gadgets This luxury bamboo sheet set is discounted just in time for your annual spring cleaning Boing Boing's Shop

Comic Books Freaky finds: shopping for comics at Bizarro-Wuxtry Lee Keeler

animation Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a stop-motion, comedy-adventure docu-drama Elías Villoro

documentaries New documentary about the 1990s Athens, Georgia underground music scene Jennifer Sandlin

music The Music of the Beatles as Channeled in 1958 by the Echo Lake Home for the Potentially Clairvoyant is a fascinating experiment Thom Dunn

oscars There's nothing in the $137,000 Oscar gift bag I'd want. Here's my fantasy gift bag Mark Frauenfelder

colonialism There are only two US states where it's legal to own the ocean Thom Dunn

los angeles Humans displaced as L.A. cleans beach-side handball courts Jason Weisberger

music Interview with musician and artist Genesis P-Orridge Sarina Sinclair and Case Esparros with Kane Lafia

happy mutants Coming soon to a city near you: HUMP, Dan Savage's amateur smut fest, banned from Facebook! Cory Doctorow

pizza Irish people have a very strange understanding of "pizza" Thom Dunn