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  • Frankly, My Dear I Don’t Give a Hoot When classic movie lines invade everyday life

    Have you ever delivered a beloved movie quote with the kind of misplaced gravitas typically reserved for funerals and Oscar speeches? If so, congratulations! You, are the living embodiment of an unscripted, caffeine-fueled film festival playing exclusively inside your own head. You drop lines like, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” to the pharmacist at Walgreens and whisper…

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  • A Farewell to Flavor Mourning 25 sandwiches that betrayed taste during the Great Depression

    In an era when soup lines stretched longer than congressional filibusters and flavor was something you remembered from your dreams, America held tight to the one thing she could still make at home without a permit. The sandwich. These were not your mile-high masterpieces or artisan sourdough statements of privilege. These were Depression-era survival slabs. Culinary betrayals pressed between slices…

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  • New Threads for an Old Goose An illustrated odyssey through childhood’s most epic misadventures

    Once upon a rhyme, when “streaming” was what creeks did and “clouds” were merely sky décor, nursery rhymes ruled the universe. Armed with nothing but breath and mischief, our ancestors spun these unhinged, verbal Molotov cocktails, and lobbed them into their children’s bedrooms just before wishing them “Pleasant dreams!” They were the original PowerPoint presentations. Short, loud, easy to remember,…

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  • From DMV to Your Couch America’s Most Dreaded Bureaucracy Has Finally Gone Digital

    Ah, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Society’s favorite reminder that despite our drones, AI assistants, and phones smarter than the Apollo missions, bureaucracy remains blissfully entrenched in the Stone Age. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Dante rewrote Inferno as a choose-your-own-adventure set in a strip mall, well, the Department of Motor Vehicles is the place for you.…

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  • Requiem for the Unstreamable How six bands found magic in the margins of the music history

    Welcome to Requiem for the Unstreamable, where forgotten bands go to die gloriously, then get resurrected for your morbid entertainment and bootleg hiss. These aren’t bands that faded away quietly. They didn’t get lost in the shuffle. They were the shuffle. Chaotic, unpredictable, and slightly sticky to the touch. No publicists. No strategies. Just pure, unfiltered chaos, delivered by people…

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