Friday Links!
Leading off this week, a beautifully written story about Mike Love, the Beach Boy's asshole: The Beach Boy: My uncanny night watching one of the legendary group’s last-ever shows.
In praise of savage diction: Dead County Fair.
I totally blew out my ankle on one of these when I was in my twenties: The Quirky History of the Osage Orange, Texas’s Ugliest Fruit.
A terrific story: How Mexico's World Cup run brought a small Oregon town to life.
Fascinating: The Brits panning for gold: In remote rivers, prospectors still hunt for treasure.
From Wally, and it's a fantastic article: What Is on Voyager’s Golden Record? LOTR nerds, it's your moment: Every LOTR and Hobbit Movie Ranked By Book Accuracy. A thoughtful defense, even though I'm not usually a fan: On Slashers, Summer Flics, and Moving Beyond Typecasting. Extremely sleazy: Hasbro’s TV Contracts Allegedly Ask Child Voice Actors to Sign Rights Away for AI Use.
From D.G.F, the first of two connected stories: The Seeds of Prairieland. The second: ‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison. The sentences are a heinous injustice and should be overturned on appeal. If not, then the next Democratic president should commute their sentences.
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