This is Tim. He's the head of security at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. While everyone else is social distancing, Tim stands vigilant, protecting things like John Wayne's… Read the rest of the article: Tim the Security Guard at the National Cowboy Museum is the wholesome content you need right now

It's already been reported that Trump is getting antsy about all the social-distancing quarantines intended to flatten the curve of coronavirus deaths, and that he's eager to return things to… Read the rest of the article: Right-wing websites are weighing the pros and cons of letting people die from coronavirus to help the economy

John J. King is a playwright and all-around awesome and clever dude; we were playwriting fellows together at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and I also contributed some music… Read the rest of the article: This groovy tune will help you pick your work-from-home outfits while in quarantine

Laura Gao was born in Wuhan before moving to the US at the age of 3. An experienced graphic designer who now works for Twitter, Gao has been — understandably… Read the rest of the article: An American artist illustrates a webcomic love letter to her hometown of Wuhan

Vermicide Violence is one of several bands that essentially function as musical sub-genre standup routines for comedian Jarrod Alonge. Their newest "single" (for lack of a better word) is simultaneously… Read the rest of the article: Get pumped up with this brutal deathcore song about coronavirus

I had the privilege of interviewing Buzz Aldrin a few years ago. The second man to step foot on the moon (and first to pee on it) had just released… Read the rest of the article: Quarantine survival advice from Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts

Metropolis Kid by Model Decoy I've known Doron Monk Flake and Ari Sadowitz since high school, and it's been an honor to watch their musical prowess grow and grow and… Read the rest of the article: "Metropolis Kid" will make you dance like Superboy

Sure, he pretended it was all a "Democrat hoax" for the last 2 months; neglected to do anything but downplay the virus for those 2 months; repeatedly used the pandemic as… Read the rest of the article: More than half of Americans actually think Trump is handling coronavirus well

While there were certainly more people out than I expected to see … there weren't that many. Which somehow made it even weirder than the Boston Marathon Bombing Lockdown, when at… Read the rest of the article: I filmed my socially distant bike ride through the ghost town of downtown Boston

A few days ago, I wrote about the transformation of WWE Smackdown into a beautiful work of Beckett-esque absurdist theatre once the audience was removed for coronavirus safety. I didn't… Read the rest of the article: WWE minus the audience is even better with the music from "Twin Peaks"

On March 11, 2020, the hooflickers of the Pembroke Pines Police Department in Florida posted an ominous message to their Twitter page, warning residents about a rogue heffer who had… Read the rest of the article: Florida cow arrested by police after months on the lam

Animorphs was a YA sci-fi series that took the mid-90s Scholastic book fair circuit by storm. Written by K.A. Applegate, the books focus on a group of kids who gain… Read the rest of the article: The entire Animorphs book series is now available for free online

Instead of watching your stocks go up and down right now like a terrifying roller coaster, let's see what some Certified Financial Planners have to say about investment planning for… Read the rest of the article: It's a-me, Mario's retirement plan!

With no visitors coming into Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, some of the rockhopper penguins have been given free reign to roam and explore. While Wellington seems really into the Amazon fish… Read the rest of the article: The penguins at the Chicago Aquarium are not practicing social distancing

Don't get me wrong — it's fun to be in the audience during a big, zany wrestling match, cheering on the drama both despite and to embrace the kayfabe. But… Read the rest of the article: WWE Smackdown without an audience is a like Beckett-esque absurdist theatre

My favorite thing about joke D&D alignment charts is that I am always, always Chaotic Good. I just can't avoid my nature, and everybody knows it. View this post on Instagram… Read the rest of the article: Tag yourself on this social distancing D&D alignment chart

"Vegas Dave" Oancea is a bit of a celebrity bookie for sports betting; or at least, that's how he's been described by my friends who care about such things. But… Read the rest of the article: Professional sports bettors are desperate to capitalize on coronavirus, too

The New York Times has an excellent, harrowing story about Matt and Noah Colvin of Tennessee — two of the many people who have tried to exploit the coronavirus panic… Read the rest of the article: Amazon and eBay punished coronavirus price-gougers by making it harder for the rest of us to get hand sanitizer

Over at Slate, Dan Kois offers an incisive look at the status quo frustrations that have long affected daily American life — and how they're now disappearing, because we're in… Read the rest of the article: How the coronavirus response reveals the arbitrary bullshit of so many US policies

I wrote An Baile na mBan: a story of mothers, monsters, and war a few years ago for an anthology called Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History.… Read the rest of the article: A free short story about Irish history to read while you're quarantined over St. Patrick's Day