Friday Inspiration, Vol. 229

You will probably enjoy Wes Tank rapping Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax” over the Dr. Dre beats for Still D.R.E., California Love, and Lil Ghetto Boy (video)(thanks, Dave)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a Philadelphia restaurant owner will video chat with you to take your food order, and then after it’s delivered to your house, will call you back via video chat to ask how everything is, and you know what, that’s pretty great.

This album has really been working for me lately, and it might work for you if you’re looking for something very chill (I put a video of Side A of this cassette on Instagram last week)

Photographer Justin Hamel documented 375 post office murals across the U.S. over a two-year span

I promise this Mental Floss article titled “Why Are Sloths So Slow?” is worth your three minutes.

Shelter-in-place coping levels measured in cartoon bears

Photographers speak about the making of their photos of hip-hop musicians in Vikki Tobak’s book Contact High (audio tour)(thanks, Ben)

An illustrated history of a New York pizza legend: Carmine Notaro (thanks, Syd)

—Brendan