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h3xe
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Sep 24, 2026
Does Vinyl sound better in the club?
Vinyl vs digital Audio in a club context.
audio
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music
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
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Jul 17, 2026
A Future Fortune
The anxious body is an oracle with bad sources. Eren Yeager drank his future and mistook the seeing for a sentence. The tarot was a card game for three hundred years before anyone called it a holy book. On divination, dehumanization, the beast at the doorstep, and why every fortune ever told points back at the person asking.
personal essay
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philosophy
taco 'bout it
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Jul 16, 2026
the garbage fire group chat: why the absolute worst groups of people make for the absolute best television
there is a very specific type of tv show where you realize about three episodes in that there is not a single person on screen you would willingly choose to be in a room with, much less share an Uber with, and yet you cannot look away because watching a collection of absolute monsters ruin...
archer
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comedy
taco 'bout it
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Jul 15, 2026
the crib curse: can adding a baby ever actually save a tv show?
it is an ancient, undisputed law of television that the exact moment a long-running show introduces a positive pregnancy test, the writers have officially run out of ideas and the series is circling the drain. it usually signals the absolute death of casual hanging out, the sudden disappearance of main characters into background daycare voids,...
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comedy
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new girl
taco 'bout it
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Jun 30, 2026
got that grimace cup, fam
fast food
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grimace
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Oct 31, 2025
Frost On The Pumpkins
Coming back for a second helping of pumpkin spice pop culture as a way to try to get relief from these trying times.
halloween
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pop culture
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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May 10, 2023
News of the Monoculture
For those who weren’t there, a quick explanation as to why MTV News was once something worth giving a crap about.
mtv
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mtv news
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Feb 1, 2023
███████ Alert
The history of everyone’s favorite attempt to keep the suspense going for just a little bit longer, the spoiler alert. People who spoil things are obviously evil. Obviously.
spoiler
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spoiler alert
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Sep 28, 2022
Sell Out With Me, Oh Yeah
Musicians selling out isn’t really that big a deal anymore—except when it’s done really poorly, as in the case of Beck’s odd NFL ad that made Neil Young mad.
beck
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nfl
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Apr 1, 2022
Low-Hanging Fruit
The Razzie Awards made a big mistake this week, and honestly, it makes me question the idea of pop-culture mockery for sport. Perhaps some empathy is necessary.
bruce willis
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golden raspberry awards
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Nov 24, 2020
Turkey Hotline
A celebration of turkey and pop culture just in time for the holidays—including how a telephone hotline somehow combined all three.
turkey
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thanksgiving
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Apr 2, 2020
Culture In A Dangerous Time
Finding comfort in a scary cultural moment from the modern digital landscape. Thankfully, we still have the internet to saturate us in offbeat popular culture.
covid-19
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coronavirus
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Oct 24, 2019
Pumpkin-Spice Pop Culture
The spooky, symbiotic relationship between Halloween and pop culture. We’ll be right back, after these messages.
pop culture
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halloween
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Dec 13, 2018
The Bagdasarian Effect
How one man’s discovery of a clever sound effect gave us Alvin and the Chipmunks, one of the most enduring novelty musical acts of all time.
novelty
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pop culture
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Jan 22, 2018
The Lazies
Is the great icon of bad film awards missing the boat in the modern era? Some thoughts on the overly broad, overly obvious Razzie nominations.
awards
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bad movies
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Dec 27, 2017
The New Millennium Blues
The pop-culture panic leading up to the year 2000. Did all the Y2K TV movies, musical parodies, and animated homages make the problem worse?
y2k
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new year's day
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Dec 11, 2017
Christmas In Clay
Pondering why a well-received Claymation holiday special, turning 30 this year, hasn’t become a lasting holiday classic like most of the other junk on TV.
animation
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california raisins
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Sep 20, 2016
The Big Data Jukebox
When AllMusic launched 25 years ago, it wasn't an obvious big data play. But it became one. Hidden in its millions of entries is music's collective history.
pop culture
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music industry
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Aug 6, 2015
A Tale of Creative Destruction
In the early '90s, a UK acid house duo called The KLF briefly became the country's biggest act. Then, they threw it all away and burned the money for art.
music
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music industry
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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May 28, 2015
Livin' on the Edge
People will always push the edges of creativity when they can—that's why we have Marilyn Manson. Today's issue analyzes art and decency.
psychology
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music
Ben Werdmuller
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Jan 30, 2013
Disrupt the mainstream
"Mainstream culture," as a concept, needs to die. A little pre-history. The Diamond Sutra, a sacred Buddhist text and the world's oldest surviving printed book, was produced in China in 868 AD. It took another couple of hundred years before moveable type was invented, and another four hundred years for the printing press to be invented. Almost six hundred years after the first printed book was created, it became possible to mass produce literature. Two hundred years after that, the first newspa
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