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On Sunday newsreel archivist British Pathé uploaded 85,000 films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel. An incredible, if sometimes a bit stodgy, resource that…

In 1990 Marianne Faithfull was filmed in concert at St. Anne’s Cathedral in Brooklyn along with a crack band consisting of The Band’s Garth Hudson,…

Earlier this month, the Colorado Department of Transportation rolled out a series of PSAs to discourage folks from driving while they’re stoned. While I agree…

A few months ago, Tara posted a tantalizing snippet of the curious 1987 ABC Afterschool Special “The Day My Kid Went Punk” — asking plaintively,…

Over the weekend, the sweet story of Cassidy Lynn Campbell, a trans teenager from Huntington Beach, CA, who was elected homecoming queen during a high…

For a brief period of time I had a job that required me to descend deep into the bowels of DIY crafting website, Etsy, in…

Edwyn Cohen YouTuber broccoliz has his wires scrambled but this might actually work, if Leonard Cohen decided to cover Edwyn Collins’ pop classic “A Girl…

The meme is strong with this one. The evil genius behind this is Ethan Persoff. Via WFMU and Nerdcore

Bolan with girlfriend Gloria Jones (who wrote sang “Tainted Love” in 1965), and son Rolan. Yup… Rolan Bolan. I suppose Rolan had play-dates with Zowie…

When you work on a blog, you have to deal with the occupational hazard of Internet trolls on a daily, even hourly, basis. Being told…