Before Jaws, monsters were myths. Frankenstein. Dracula. Godzilla. Fantastical creatures. Jaws made the monster real. Great white sharks exist. We just hadn’t thought to fear them.
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Tag: nostalgia
The Goonies are still good enough 40 years later
Let’s just pretend that the greatest movie ever the GOONIES is playing at the Schuylkill Mall tonight and it is June 7, 1985.
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The Gray Fade: On Fast Food, Isolation, and the Disappearing Color of Connection
Everything’s gray. Monotone. Lifeless. The buildings look more like bank branches or prisons than places to eat or hang out. Actually banks look more fun.
It doesn’t stop there. We stopped being fun, too.
Reimagining Centralia: What Might Have Been
AI helps visualize a Centralia that never had a mine fire..
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Sara Gilbert was on the big picture. What did the big picture exist?
Pretty sure this existed in my school. Maybe yours, but I can’t find any traces that it did.
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All the presidents’ heads
I am on a mission to find and buy presidents’ heads. Let me explain.
I’m talking about those iconic, oversized heads of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln that used to adorn classroom walls in the early 1900s. You know the ones—giant oval cutouts that loomed over children as they tackled their studies, offering a silent, patriotic presence, and in the case of honest Abe, a slightly melancholy and distinct stare..
But everyone I talk to says they are gone for good…
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