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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. |
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Blog O' Things - newspaper blog, updated several times a week. |
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BleatPlus - tidbits once a week for the paying customers. |
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Posterous - the iPhone-only photoblog. |
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Twitter- Of course. |
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Matchbook Museum. Lovely examples of commercial art in its smallest, most portable form. |
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Comic Covers. Unusual or risable examples of old comic book cover art. Part of Comic Sins. |
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100 Mysteries. Chewing through a big box of public-domain Hollywood mystery movies, one at a time. |
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StarTribune. Column on Friday and Sunday. |
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Black & White World An ongoing look at movies that decided color was just so obvious. |
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The 30s. Devoted to the detritus of a misunderstood decade. |
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Comic Ads. Delightful examples of comic book ads. Part of Comic Sins. |
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Miscellany. For those things that go nowhere else. |
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Home of the Gallery of Regrettable Food, the Gobbler, Art Frahm, the Engraveyard, 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. Updated in 2008. |
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Coffee & Chrome Restaurant and Diner postcards from the 50s and 60s. Updated in the early weeks of 2009. |
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Minneapolis Hundreds of pages and pictures documenting downtown Minneapolis then and now. Plus the lakes. Updated throughout '09 |
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New York City Over 80 pre-WW2 postcards; a study of Times Square through the century, and photos from many visits. |
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Fargo 1950 Everything you know is probably wrong. |
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Must Credit Acme Extreme closeups of old wire-service photos. Warning: gigantic pictures. |
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Ghost Signs Faded painted ads from New York, Minneapolis, and other locales. |
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Urban Variety Pre-Mall downtown signage; 60s churches; 70s malls |
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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. |
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Bleatophany remixes and compositions. |
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Small Films Movies from buzz.mn & lleks.com. Additional 80s KTCA films viewable at my YouTube site. |
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Podcast Archive Old stuff. |
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YouTube - Just a few things. |
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Flickr - a few photos. |
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blip.fm - some music. |
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the Hughniverse. Paid content. |
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Behold: the ancestral bowling shirts. The Lileks Oil Company team played at Red River Lanes, and brought home a trophy or two over the years. My dad’s second from the left. I don’t know the identity of the iconoclast who had to go with white shoes and brown pants. I do know this: you can probably find the motivation for much of this site in this very picture. The post-war era. Fargo. Family. Chrome. Diners. This was the world of my childhood, and by the time I was old enough to look around and start taking notes, it was already disappearing.
Whoa, dude! Bummer! No. This is not a site that weeps over the bygone, and wishes it was 1953 again so we could have sock-hops and short hair and tailfins. When the artifacts of the past deserve a stern mocking, by God they will get them. When they deserve awe and love, likewise.
But it's not just a post-war pop culture site. It's just . . . stuff. Lots of stuff I scanned, or wrote, or composed, or shot. You can start at the Bleat, a blog that's been running for 15 years, and work your way through everything at your leisure. It's a huge site, as these things go; a single innocent link may open up a site with 400 pages. Take your time. Enjoy!
Lileks
03.28.10
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