Restaurant Éthéré: The Invisible Tasting Menu Experience
Restaurant Éthéré offers a unique tasting menu experience. Food is obsolete and flavor is a mindset. The menu is composed entirely of aromas, narratives, and… Read More
Book of Daze: Deus ex Machina Day
When ancient Greek playwrights painted themselves into a corner and were stuck for an ending, they employed a maneuver of staggering genius known as deus… Read More
The AI Romantic Liability Waiver Agreement
Silicon Valley, having created the world’s most attentive, eager-to-please conversational partner, the AI chatbot, has now developed The AI Romantic Liability Waiver Agreement, a disclosure… Read More
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Gandi’s Shortcomings
The question of Gandhi’s shortcomings is, for many, an unwelcome one. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948) occupies a position in the global imagination normally reserved for… Read More
When Going Viral Ruins Your Life
One tweet about sandwiches should not ruin a life. Unfortunately, social media excels at turning small accidents into permanent identities via the phenomenon known as… Read More
When the cosmos offers you a theatrical limp and a strategically placed bandage, do not question the aesthetic of your own fragility.
Candid Horoscopes
Today we present candid horoscopes. The usual cosmic claptrap has been replaced with the kind of blunt disclosure normally reserved for tax attorneys and ex‑spouses.… Read More
Book of Daze: WW III Readiness Day
Nations once marked the calendar with harvest festivals, saints’ days, and commemorations of battles they insisted were victories. Now, in a gesture of global unity,… Read More
Gratitude Journals Are a National Health Threat
Gratitude journals began, like most national emergencies, with a pastel notebook and a suggestion from a morning talk show host. “Three bullet points a day,”… Read More