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Various And Sundry

|December 26, 2014 | Various And Sundry

* A history of British folk horror

* Most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890 – 2014

* Some interesting new discoveries about Louis Armstrong, and therefore about New Orleans, jazz, America, us

* Some record covers

Various And Sundry

|December 19, 2014 | Various And Sundry

* All about UFO

* Probably mainly of interest to people who are from Chicago and were teens in the 1980s : Medusa’s

* All about designing a logo

* How some video stores are thriving in the age of Netflix : Not Dead Yet

* 15 days crossing the Pacific Ocean on a cargo ship : ” Why are you on this vessel?” said with raised eyebrows and an amused smile that suggests, You’re a fucking moron. Slow Boat From China

* An unsteady history of drunkenness : Blurred Forms

* Canada‘s only record-pressing plant is closing, moving to the USA

* One million mummies : also, graffiti from Pompeii

* On, among other things, America’s burgeoning condiment monoculture

* All about Dee Dee

* Some fantastic goddamn signs

* All about modesty

* What did ancient music actually sound like? This, maybe

* “Something happened that nobody can make a movie between $500,000 and $80 million. That can’t be possible.” The death of mid-budget cinema

Also, this motherfucking jam, which was, hearing it on the radio, a magical song to me when I was, I don’t know, 12 years old. They did not play it very often.