The Carpet

The Carpet

Home
Podcast
Archive
About
Inside a Japanese village on the brink of disappearance
The surreally beautiful, vanishing towns of Miyoshi
 • 
Stephanie
10
The dick pic in the comedy group chat
Is everything fair game in the business of being funny?
 • 
Stephanie
1
What the Libs can learn from scrap metal truckers
Lessons from an unlikely crisis PR masterclass
 • 
Stephanie
20
Art is your birthright. Don’t let them tell you otherwise
On university chaos, old friends, and why my favourite photographer is a toddler
 • 
Stephanie
2
Radio’s Most Cynical AI Experiment Just Got Exposed
ARN tried to cut costs with a fake host. They gutted their credibility instead.
 • 
Stephanie
12
Meet Thy – the radio host I don’t think exists
Have AI personalities already infiltrated the Australian media?
 • 
Stephanie
Why aren't millennials rioting this election?
Lazy political distractions aren't addressing the bigger issues
 • 
Stephanie
7
Am I the only one really depressed about AI art?
On despair and finding hope in dinnerware
 • 
Stephanie
9
I audit the predictions of Australia's most famous futurist
Bernard Salt wrote a lot about 2025. Did he get anything right?
 • 
Stephanie
2
Surfers Paradise and their weird shrunken heads.
The gruesome Gold Coast attraction
 • 
Stephanie
1
In defence of glorious failures
Coppola’s Megalopolis is a disaster, but at least it’s his disaster.
 • 
Stephanie
The world is a mess – here’s why you should look to a pigeon for guidance.
A lesson in quiet resistance
 • 
Stephanie
3
The Carpet
The Carpet
The Carpet is a humorous weekly society and culture newsletter written by an award-winning journo with a taste for the weird.

The Carpet

AboutArchiveSitemap
© 2025 Stephanie Coombes
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture