The High Cost of Dying in New York

Al Jazeera piece on Muslim funerals in New York, including some interesting details about transatlantic shipping for funerals.

Victorian Drag Queens

Hooray for vintage pictures!

Sylvia Moreno Garcia on Authenticity

Small but fun essay. I enjoy what I've read of this author's work- there's a particularly fun Malinche-themed sci-fi story they ran from her over at Escape Pod- and I've never felt any of it was inauthentic, but I've also spent some time down in Mexico. I get really tired of seeing it depicted as a completely sepia-toned desert full of gangsters and witches (I love you, Breaking Bad, but really, man, really?)

Visual Displays of Punctuation

I enjoy when people take a look at the nuts and bolts of prose. I'm not sure this is hugely informative, but it is fun.

Bolivia's Indigenous Millionaires and Their New Houses

Not everyone loves them. I think they look neat.

Creepy Doll Factory Pictures

What it says on the tin.

"How I Wrote Neuromancer"

William Gibson lays it out.