The Public Domain Review introduces the 1913 parody children’s book railing against modern art, The Cubies’ ABC. (Including full text scans from the Internet Archive.)
The Jewish folk song everyone in Japan knows
Noah Oskow discusses the complicated international history of the folk song Mayim Mayim. (SL Youtube)
Everybody knows her by the nickname of la Chona
The catchy 1995 Norteño/pop hit song
“La Chona”
by Los Tucanes de Tijuana has been
covered
hundreds
of
times
by
both
professional
and
amateur
musicians.
There are
also
remixes
and
parodies.
Of course, one can also
just
dance
to
i…
Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal
The hide and seek skills of a two year old. (SL to a long and silly twitter image thread.)
を手掛かりに、コンクリート遊具のしくみ、歴史、中の人インタビューなど徹底的に調べてみました！
Nagoya, in central Japan, has many playground
slides shaped like Mt. Fuji. Twitter user @223playmount and others are documenting them. There’s an online index, a book, and even fashion accessories.
Don’t ask us to attend, ’cause we’re not all there.
If you’ve ever wondered what the bit players in Kids in the Hall would do if they were given their own series, there’s a six episode answer that’s hard to buy but is now on youtube [note: includes some things that haven’t aged well, including using n…
No one helped me. No one. Well, maybe a bit of cigarette smoking. . .
A daytime TV talkshow host interviews successful business entrepreneur, a cancerous tumor. [SL: 8 minute video; includes brief but cavalier references to suicide and unhoused people.] [Disclaimers: this was made by a friend of a friend. There are good …