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The future is here! And by future, I mean 1892.
From a New York Times article on Wednesday. Wednesday, June 3, 1892. (Not a joke.) A HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR; PROMISED RATE OF TRAVEL FROM ST. LOUIS TO CHICAGO. DR. WELLINGTON ADAMS TELLS ELECTRIC CLUB...
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“Uh oh. Pump up the jam.”
We’ve got Olympics fever, but it’s for Lillehammer, 1994 and one magical performance…
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R.I.P. Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton– precocious frontman for the Box Tops and then leader of the influential power pop band Big Star– has died at age 59. Here a 16- or 17-year old Chilton performs the Box Tops’ hit “The...
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This Week In Meta-Nostalgia
Pitchfork Media has published ”The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s.” This nostalgic look back at the videos of the 1990s includes “Buddy Holly” by Weezer (1994), a nostalgic spoof of “Happy Days,” a...
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DEBUNKED: Time Traveler In Chaplin Footage From 1928
Image Source: LiveScience An Irish filmmaker’s claim that footage from a Charlie Chaplin movie premiere in 1928 reveals a time-traveling woman speaking on a mobile phone has been debunked: “As you can...
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Jack Kerouac, Conservative
In this video from William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line,” beat novelist and poet Jack Kerouac declares himself a lifelong Republican and chews out a hippy: From the website of “The American Museum of Beat...
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Paul Ryan is pictured here as prom king in 1988. While in high school, Ryan delivered pizzas for Señor Pizza and spent summers mowing lawns to save up for a telescope. (That is, until he made a deal...
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I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. Does it exalt dunderheads, cowards, trimmers, frauds, cads? Then the pain of seeing them go up is balanced and...
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Twice.
“We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L....
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“Protect and Survive” – Disturbing British Nuclear Survival Videos (1980s)
Few things are as uncomfortable to watch, on so many levels, as these videos from the U.K’s “Protect and Survive” public information series from the early 1980s. (And maybe it’s just me, but I get an...
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Pitchfork Media has published ”The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s.” This nostalgic look back at the videos of the 1990s includes “Buddy Holly” by Weezer (1994), a nostalgic spoof of “Happy Days,” a...
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“Protect and Survive” – Disturbing British Nuclear Survival Videos (1980s)
Few things are as uncomfortable to watch, on so many levels, as these videos from the U.K’s “Protect and Survive” public information series from the early 1980s. (And maybe it’s just me, but I get an...
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Pitchfork Media has published ”The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s.” This nostalgic look back at the videos of the 1990s includes “Buddy Holly” by Weezer (1994), a nostalgic spoof of “Happy Days,” a...
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