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In the second of two parts, guest blogger Eric Roberts continues his summary of the search for the whereabouts of John Lennon's White R...

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This past week I happened to see two movies from different decades and noticed that the electronic novelty, the SONOVOX , serendipitously ap...

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In Chapter Nine of Philip K. Dick's We Can Build You , Sam Barrows dismisses the Lincoln simulacrum's desire to "speechify...

Angelus Novus (1920) by Paul Klee Theorist and critic Walter Benjamin owned this watercolor for many years. In his essay, "Theses o...

I told you about the walrus and me, man. You know that we're as close as can be, man. Well, here's another riddle for you all: A g...