RIP, Sam the Record Man. Your Toronto store was amazing.




Discovery news alert! A giant Roman mosaic has been discovered in southern Turkey, and Lord Byron’s copy of Frankenstein (autographed by Mary Shelley!) has been found as well. Not together, though. That would be odd.



Walker Kershaw’s street art is a new discovery to me, although it’s been around so long he might be Britain’s first street artist.



Nigeria is inventing a new language, with pidgin English at its core. My new favorite phrase is “ginger my swagger.”