🐟 A Doorbell for Fish | Bulletin #150

This week: Five Wes-signed prizes up for grabs 🎁

March 25, 2026

Thala Beach Reserve 📍 Oak Beach, Australia 📸 Julia Jacqueline

More than 3,000 coconuts are dispatched each year from the tiny Hoolehua Post Office in Hawaii - no box necessary. Visitors write an address on the husk, slap on some postage, and ship them as far as Easter Island, Kazakhstan, or the Swiss Alps. While most countries require protective packaging for mail, the US Postal Service is ok for coconuts to travel au naturel. The practice turned into a tourist attraction in 1991, when a postmaster on the island of Molokai created the "Post-a-Nut" program. To date, not a single coconut has been returned to sender for insufficient packaging. 🥥

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WES-SIGNED PRIZES HIDDEN BELOW

To celebrate 150 Bulletins, we're giving away 5 prizes that Wes himself signed just for the Community - including copies of our books and posters from his films. Find the Secret Link below! Fifty winners total, five grand prizes. Start hunting.

THIS WEEK IN AWA AWESOMENESS

🐠 A doorbell for fish
🌸 Spring has sprung
🥂 Why we clink
🎁 Wes-signed Giveaway

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, spring has sprung (well… kinda). Here's an ode to some of our favorite springtime stories while we patiently await sunnier times!

🍫 Springtime sweets
☃️ Exploding snowman marks spring
🛌 Dreaming of florals
🌸 Japan’s 1,000 year flower party

WHY WE CLINK

That instinctive clink of glasses before taking a sip? It's older than you think. Some believe it traces back to Medieval paranoia — guests would cheers hard enough to slosh wine between goblets as proof no one was trying to poison one another. But historians say the real origin stretches back even further, to a time when toasting involved actual toast, offerings to the gods, and a word borrowed from the French that has nothing to do with drinking at all…

Brewery Feldschlösschen 📍 Rheinfelden, Switzlerand 📸 Urs Aeberhard

THE BREWERY THAT REFUSED TO MELT

Switzerland's largest brewery nearly went bankrupt in 1877 - not from bad beer, but because winter refused to freeze. Desperate for ice essential to fermentation, the founders made a costly gamble - send a team of horses and carts on an extreme journey to harvest ice from a frozen lake. Save the brewery, or lose everything…

LET THE FISH IN!

A canal in the Netherlands has a doorbell - for fish. Every spring, finned friends swim through the city of Utrecht's waterways, but a manually operated lock blocks their path to calmer waters. The Dutch built an underwater camera and handed control to the internet: spot a fish, ring the bell, let it through.

What's better than one secret link winner? FIFTY! In honor of Bulletin 150, we're picking 50 winners - including FIVE GRAND PRIZE WINNERS who'll get their hands on Wes-signed AWA gold: AWA: The Book, AWA: Adventures, an Asteroid City poster, AWA Postcard Book, or a Phoenician Scheme poster - all signed by Wes himself! Happy searching!