Old Is The New New

Actionable Offenses, a collection of indecent and illegal phonograph recordings from the 1890s, recovered from the Edison Archives and now available on CD. (Edit: I scooped the New York Times!)

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Turkelectronics, a worry free histo-tainment experience, that episode of The A-Team where Boy George played himself.

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Gilded Age gaming at the Museum of Lost Interactions.

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A Mad Libs-style game book from ca. 1912.

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Gilded age memetics, intellectual history as improv jazz, and the secret of the sphinx revealed.

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As for me, my bed is made. I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water. … The bigger the unit you [...]

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Scratching and needle-dropping, ca. 1917. Plus: Gloria Swanson looking gothy.

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Squirrel nut zippers and Necco wafers: the golden age of the Cambridge candy trusts.

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