Old Is The New New

“See! Now! Our sentence is up.” That’s the last line of the last page of the last issue of The Invisibles, Grant Morrison’s pop magic comic book master work. That final issue came out right around Y2K, but it’s set on the December solstice of what was then the freaky-sounding future year 2012. All this [...]

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I started blogging ten years ago tomorrow–January 1st, 2001–with a quote from Parappa the Rapper, a welcome to my newborn niece, and the default Blogger theme. I wasn’t a very good blogger, but in 2001, who was? I’d make all these little placeholder posts, with the idea of going back and finishing them later. Heh. [...]

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I may make the big upgrade to WordPress 3.0 tonight, or soon. So if it all goes awry and this blog goes up in digital smoke–well, you won’t be reading this!

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“Do not fancy that an intermission of writing is a decay of kindness.”

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Timothy Burke on old weird eugenics.

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The Golden Age of Blogging is over; bring on the Silver Age.

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On slowiness.

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Three ways to leave your lover.

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Toasting the essential digital history blog.

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Slow and low, that is the tempo. Hat tip to Dan Cohen.

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