Culture
Zach and the Homeless Woman
Here is a really heartwarming story about Zach Galifianakis’s friendship with Elizabeth “Mimi” Haist, a laundry worker he met 20 years ago.
The Crazy Bag People Inside of Us
Quick, how many plastic bags do you have under your sink or stuffed in a drawer in your home? Probably a lot.
Google Island
This, by Mat Honan, is kind of incredible.
The Business of Being Bluth
At Businessweek, Will Leitch examines the Bluth family business and gets us all excited to see what kind of scheming the Bluths will be doing when Arrested Development returns on Netflix later this month.
Rob From The Rich So You Can Be Rich
Are Spring Breakers, The Great Gatsby, and the Bling Ring simply hedonistic? Or are they SUBVERSIVE? (“Like Daniel Lugo and his band of thugs, who kidnap a businessman and steal everything he owns, Ms. Coppola’s adolescent burglars are taking physical possession of what they feel already belongs to them.”)
How Star Trek Does Money
In what must be the nerdiest nerdgasm posted to the Internet in the last 24 hours, Slate economics blogger Matt Yglesias has watched every episode of every series of Star Trek and shared his thoughts about what makes the series’ great.
How F. Scott Fitzgerald Did Money
Fitzgerald, we also learn from this terrific American Scholar piece, was also paid no less than $1,000 per week during his Hollywood years and had an annual income of roughly $500,000 a year when adjusted for inflation.
Justin Bieber Crowdfunds His Next Album
I’m Justin Bieber, and I think it’d be sweet it if y’all paid for me to record my next album.
The Last Mile Program
It’s Demo Day for participants from The Last Mile, a program designed to train selected inmates for eventual employment in Silicon Valley.
On the Weed Trail from California to New York
WYNC has a fascinating interview with a guy named “Chuck” a marijuana dealer from San Francisco, Calif.—where marijuana has been decriminalized and is legal for medicinal purposes—who came to New York, where marijuana is 100 percent illegal, to sell weed and quadruple his income. They also talk to special agent who is trying to stop the illegal flow of marijuana.
