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The idea of nuclear catasrophe has haunted my subconscious since I was five or so, probably some kind of a relic from my mother’s fervent no-nukes protesting in the early 1980s. So when I finally stumbled upon the old educational film, Duck and Cover, I figured it was time to watch. You should too! I [...]

“A long, long time ago — the early nineties — I was into blogs before there were blogs,” writes Simon Dumenco in New York Metro. The article features headshots and profiles of various high society bloggers, including one of my favorites, and one of the only bloggers I’ve ever met in real life, Maud Newton.

It was 1994, I think – my junior year of high school. Things were fucked up then, and they were about to get even more fucked up. But that year, Halloween fell on a Sunday and it was just me and Esther on the Metro North, heading back to New York from Connecticut, where we’d [...]