Half a century ago, an English farmer lost his watch.
Monthly Archives: June 2024
Dept. of Unlocked Catalog Memories
My 80s youth was awash with catalog companies. In the absence of the Internet, paper-based distance-shopping was immensely popular! There were tons of these; the most well remembered were firms like The Sharper Image that eventually became a sad mall store, but my old favorite was the DAK catalog — which, somehow, I forgot about entirely until I saw this blog post that’s been sitting in an open tab for six months.
Enjoy!
He gets them from the sheep.
I present the wrongest Christmas carol ever, safely now in June:
Thousands of tiny white things inside of his drum.
teeth #sheep #drum
The Most Important and Earliest Self-Referential Texts
Well, for me, anyway:
The Monster at the End of This Book, obviously, but also and more thrillingly
Duck Amuck, which you probably haven’t seen in far too long. But it’s on YouTube. Enjoy.
I have a strong feeling that the affection GenX obviously has for breaking-the-fourth-wall — e.g., Deadpool on page and filme — has at least some of its roots in these two documents.