It is most likely a proven scientific fact that tiny versions of big things are delightful. Allow me to introduce you to the world of Re-Ment, a Japanese toy company that specializes in make-your-own miniature kits, whose name often stands in as a catch-all for mini-anything. Whee!
Read MoreA series in which we delve into a foreign slice of NYC life. This week: Chinatown Gamers. On the first block of Elizabeth Street, #6A, Nebulous, is a store and tournament center for Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh! card games. I walk by there every night, and every night it is packed with gamers. I decided to visit on a Friday night to understand the place's popularity, and its population.
Read MoreThink math and poetry have nothing in common, aside from parallel lines? Think again. Celebrate Pi Day (March 14 = 3.14) by reading this selection of geometry-themed verse — and a pi-encoding short story.
Read MorePlastic surgery, youth obsession, technology overload climate change: all of these subjects havel been touched upon in the world of The Twilight Zone. Here is a compilation of episodes that were ahead of their time and served as a possible harbinger for modern America.
Read MoreVoice of Lizzy Bennet and she of zero tolerance for bullshit Jane Austen once said, "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” I'm not saying people who make stuff out of book pages are stupid. I'm just saying people who buy stuff made out of book pages might want to pause and buy a copy of Pride and Prejudice instead.
Read MoreThey are an ubiquitous part of NYC culture, plowing through the streets with abandon alongside mommies, nannies, and strollers, and the impossibly cool NYC native teenagers who are dressed better than you will ever be. They walk among us, often with two, three, or seven canine companions. They are the walkers of dogs.
Read MoreRead as a whole, the Twitter of writer and friend of the Internet generation Tao Lin is very much an extension of his longer published work. The guy himself is a literary meme, so it seems fitting to reproduce his most meme-able writings in kind.
Read MoreHoroscopes
are meant to be prophetic, but why can’t they be poetic? Instead of
reading your stars this month, try reading some Allen Ginsberg with
these Poetic Horoscopes taken straight from his work.
In a world teeming with tweets, Tumblrs, and status updates, poetry isn't exactly the most modern form of expression. Or is it? Read on for some choice incarnations of web-savvy poetry.
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