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Welcome! It's Year # 16 for this site, and it's pretty much the same drill: a blog, some scans, some postcards, a drizzle of rote snark and sodden sentimentality. Perhaps you're here for THE BLEAT, a blog that's been rambling on since 1997; if you want ugly meat and ten tons of pop-culture detritus, you'll want the INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEER.
But don't stop there. It's a big place. Take your time, and I hope you enjoy the visit.
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The Bleat - updated M-F. Dashed-off tripe, with links to all the ongoing updated projects. Now in real blog format, with comments. Huzzah. The Bleat Archives contain years of blather.
Flotsam - sporadically updated blog devoted only to site updates.
Twitter- Of course.
LINT- Posterous blog for detritus. |
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Home of the Gallery of Regrettable Food, the Gobbler, Art Frahm, the Ad Archive, Comic Sins, 100 Mysteries, and so very, very much more. Twelve years old and still updated weekly! Retro heaven: comics, pamphlets, WW2 ads, drug-company brochures, cigarette ads, 70s fashion. Trust me: you can waste a lot of time here. |
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The American Motel Dozens of motel postcards from around the country, all from the 50s and 60s.
Coffee & Chrome Restaurant and Diner postcards from the 50s and 60s. Updated in the early weeks of 2009. |
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The Diner My old KSTP AM-1500 radio show is back in podcast form. Over eighty half-hour episodes available - with some original shows from the 90s as well.
Small Films Movies from buzz.mn & lleks.com. Additional 80s KTCA films viewable at my YouTube site.
Bleatophany remixes and compositions.
Podcast Archive Old stuff. |
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Your Host Bio, family stories, dog photography
Travel Where I was
Photos What I saw.
Contact Where I am. |
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Matchbook Museum.Lovely examples of commercial art in its smallest, most portable form. Currently in the process of a long-awaited upgrade, arranging everything by genre.
Comic Covers. Unusual or risable examples of old comic book cover art. Part of Comic Sins. Updated Tuesdays.
StarTribune. Column on Friday and Sunday.
Miscellany.For those things that go nowhere else.
Black & White World An ongoing look at movies that decided color was just so obvious
The 20s. Pop-culture of the Jazz Age.. NEW in 2012.
The 30s. Devoted to the detritus of a misunderstood decade.
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Minneapolis Hundreds of pages and pictures documenting downtown Minneapolis then and now.
New York City Over 80 pre-WW2 postcards; a study of Times Square through the century, and photos from many visits.
Fargo 1950 Everything you know is probably wrong.
Must Credit Acme Extreme closeups of old wire-service photos. Warning: gigantic pictures
Ghost SignsFaded painted ads from New York, Minneapolis, and other locales. |
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YouTube - Just a few things.
blip.fm - some music.
the Hughniverse. Paid content.
Ricochet. Center-right blog. |
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