The Daily
A newspaper for the obvious
The Kitchen Desk · The Kitchen Desk
It is not caused by how much ice cream you eat. It is caused by how fast, and by where the cold lands. The pain you feel is not happening where you feel it.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs · By Design
Portland General Electric's residential customers used 20% less electricity in 2024 than in 2000 and paid 141% more for it. The appliances worked. The savings were collected by the unit price.
By Hollis Carver
The Kitchen Desk · The Kitchen Desk
Water boils cooler as you climb, so the seven minutes that produced a hard egg at the trailhead produces a raw one at the summit. The pot is not the problem. The sky is.
By R. Dunmore
The Kitchen Desk · The Kitchen Desk
Six forks between the cupboard and the table, and the best branch at each. The history is made up. The oven temperature is not.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs · By Design
It costs a good deal more than peanuts, and the Peanuts are the only reason to pay it.
By Hollis Carver
Diversions · Diversions · The Strip
The paper's first comic strip. It is silent, it is weekly, and it concerns a routine municipal inspection. We are told it has an ending. We have chosen to trust the process.
By The Editor
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The Kitchen Desk · The Kitchen Desk
Chunky or smooth, purist or loaded, sized to the table before anyone double-dips.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs · By Design · Autumn/Winter
Flannel season is in full force, and the work shirt is finally getting the runway review it never asked for.
By Hollis Carver
From the Editor's Desk · From the Desk
Nine reference pages, four hundred and twenty-one lenses, and a compiler who has held almost none of them. The interesting column is the empty one.
By P. Lotor
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
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What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.