I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hopโs past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
defector.com/lost-recipes
I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hopโs past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
defector.com/lost-recipes
I don't think I am but this seems incredibly affordable for a piece of Hollywood history
Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car
I knew I recognized the name - the "Brick by Brick" genius: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sqg...
Randy Lewis, a professor at the University Texas, talks about his new book "Bummerland," the state of higher education, and much more: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/living-in-an...
this one is a little flavor-forward and I'm not sure how I feel about it
I appreciate you, @archive.org
When I bought the Beach Boys album LOVE YOU on vinyl like 20 years ago, I noticed (one of?) the previous owner(s) had also sold a bunch of articles stuffed in with record. I finally uploaded them to archive.org:
archive.org/details/stil...
archive.org/details/rex-...
archive.org/details/craw...
This was the greatest sketch of all time
I love that this is the picture they used on the official Cape Verde island website to show where they're located. www.capeverdeislands.org/islands/loca...
thank you for posting Aargh! and friends, it unlocked memories
I was happy to be featured on the What Makes Austin Weird podcast: www.whatmakesaustinweird.com/episodes
piece about sleep apnea: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/hereditary-s...
couldn't do much of an Austin angle with this one
even when they weren't, "Orange Crush" was played on the classic rock station in San Antonio, late 90s even
at my old old job, you could get a colonoscopy covered by insurance (I learned this during a presentation BY the insurance company) ONLY if they found something in there. If you just did a preventative screening and they found bupkis, you'd get a bill.
really interesting reflection on Infinite Jest. I read it a couple of years ago and aged out of, I hope, the maximum pretension bracket, though I still find it fascinating.
1980 Winter Olympics poster featuring Roni, raccoon mascot
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Great excuse to rewatch @stanzipotenza.bsky.social's very awesome short.
www.youtube.com/shorts/md9i1...
and this is a wonderful design beerleaguesweettees.com/product/lscc...:
Tracie here did the same, and had a great experience: the-austin-tadarida.ghost.io/i-wanted-to-...
Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage.
If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to hello@flamingydra.com
Team resources is why worker-owned media collectives are so important. It's not gonna fix everything, especially the problem of readers only having so much cash, but everyone can't go it alone.
for connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier โ you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News
For two years, I've been investigating claims that Texas A&M University has been overtaken by the forces of gay race communism. The truth is a little more complicated: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
I recorded an interview with the What Makes Austin Weird podcast today, and the episode will be out in a couple of weeks. We actually spent a lot of time talking about Minnesota, understandably.
www.whatmakesaustinweird.com
A news report screenshot. There's a grim reaper. The chyron says "Yikes! Stay tuned."
Me every morning in this fucking country