May 14, 2021 - Links

Friday links

Photographer Brad Walls takes aerial pictures people engaging in sports, and they’re pretty cool. (Kottke)
An amusing and smart popular cultural history of the archetypical Bennington girl. (Guernica)
This video—by Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones—might make you cry. (NY Times)
This history of diversity in the aviation industry is pretty fascinating. To wit: the first Black flight attendant was a Cameroonian princess. (Messy Nessy Chic)
The biggest snubs and surprises of the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. (Vulture)
I liked this interview with graphic novelist (and inventor of the Bechdel test), the great Alison Bechdel. (Vulture)
This is awfully funny. (New Yorker)
And this story—about the downfall of Soul Cycle—is fascinating. (Town & Country)
Cool: the Royal Tennenbaums house is for rent. (Curbed)
I love this photo essay on the lowriders of L.A. (The Guardian)
“Expiration dating” is apparently a thing. (Vogue)

May 7, 2021 - Links

Check out the world’s most beautiful gas stations. (Kottke)
These vintage photos of London punks are just great. (Messy Nessy Chic)
Are these the 100 best sitcoms of all time? (Rolling Stone)
This is just charming. (Kottke)
Well this is good news: Broadway is set to reopen in September. (Town & Country)
These photos from the reopening of Disneyland are a trip. (Vogue)
This oral history of Madonna’s Truth or Dare really took me back. (Vulture)
This is a movie waiting to happen: Secrets of the world’s greatest jailbreak artist. (GQ)
And this is fascinating and just a little bit weird. (New Yorker)

Apr 26, 2021 - Links

Monday links

Guys, please accept apologies for the thinness of posts last week—I’ve been having another bout of pretty serious insomnia lately, and then there’s been some (actually pretty great) stuff going on too that I’ll tell you when the time is right. Meanwhile, check out this awesome 3-D printed home. (Colossal)
And here’s the Ted Lasso season 2 trailer.
This is cute: all of the Paris tourist cliches in one retro cartoon. (Messy Nessy Chic)
11 great NYC sandwiches (Eater)
Inside Jay Z’s weed laboratory. (GQ)
The great Frances McDormand’s ten best roles. (Vogue)
Good lord, is this dark. (Vulture)
The Oscars were last night, unbelievably—here’s how to stream all the major nominees right now. (Town & Country)
This is fascinating: The glam lady gang that ruled London during the turn of the last century. (Bitch)
Is languishing the dominant emotion of 2021? (NY Times)