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image via Gabby’s Mermaid Postcards

Who among us has not at least once longed for a pink heart-shaped bathtub, a tunnel of love ride, and an underwater mermaid show? Where in America can I find these things? 🧜‍♀️

There was recently a bit of saltiness over an American describing the perfect cup of tea. Much outrage ensued over this international incident, as cheerfully chronicled in rory's post!

John Margolies photo via publicdomainreview.org

Great post by zamboni about John Margolies’ photographs of roadside America

Delia Derbyshire

A polyphony of music past recently in the blue:

11+ documentaries on the history of electronic music; Larry Chung talks about and plays a 1934 Gibson L-5; A three-hour mixtape of Goth history, nearly 50 tracks of early-to-mid eighties Goth classics; Pitchfork's 200 Best Songs of the 1980s; Anton Karas plays the Theme from the Third Man, on zither; Using Spotify plays to quantify how old music has stood the test-of-time; "massive chords of intemperate savagery" – the strange story of Jón Leifs' Organ Concerto; great highlights from This is Tom Jones, a variety show that ran from 1969-1971; "Old Weird America", you say? I got some right here for ya