Old Is The New New

The Two Man Gentlemen Band: Taft is an easy target, but I do like these guys.

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Build your own alternate universe.

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With Buster Keaton as Mario, Mary Pickford as Princess Toadstool, Harold Lloyd as Luigi, and Fatty Arbuckle as King Koopa.

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“In search of America’s great, forgotten history.” (In the NYT.)

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Quick, does Taylor come before Polk, or vice-versa? Artist Justine Lai is painting herself having sex with each U.S. president. NSFW USA.

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I was Watching the Watchmen, I swear, but then I looked away and missed them.

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Just in time for Watchmen: Jon Savage on the history of the smiley face.

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Luc Sante is my hero.

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Google posts millions of images from the Life magazine archives.

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Is this real? Bowie, Vonnegut, Pat Benatar, and Cicely Tyson shilling coffee in 1984? Really? For real? Is it? (Hat tip.)

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