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Wooden Block Dispatches: July 17, 2024
July 17, 2024
Happy Hick Pix Day! On this day in 1935 Variety Magazine published one of the most famous headlines of all time. One can imagine that today’s New York Times’...
Greetings from the Wooden Block Labyrinth!
July 11, 2024
Hello, faithful subscribers! It’s been a minute since we last reached out to you, and we hope that everyone is staying cool and safe within another...
Winamp Wednesday: A Well-Timed Smile
January 31, 2024
Winamp Wednesday is our continuing feature spotlighting all the MP3s I downloaded in the wild-west days of the early internet. B-Sides, live shows, off-air...
Winamp Wednesday: Make Me a Promise
January 30, 2024
No, it's not Wednesday, but we're still playing catch-up! Here's January 24th's entry; we'll hopefully be back on track tomorrow. Until then, enjoy! Winamp...
Winamp Wednesday: Lean Pristine Transparency
January 27, 2024
Welcome to the first Wooden Block Labyrinth dispatch from Buttondown! It's good to still be in your inbox. Apologies for the delay and dust as we move to the...
Winamp Wednesday: Treat You Like a Queen
January 10, 2024
It's a history report, not a future report.
1999 at 25: A New Year's Box-Office Hangover
January 6, 2024
What we were watching as the calendar rolled over, and why America picked the wrong Robin Williams movie.
Winamp Wednesday: He's in Every Film
January 3, 2024
And sometimes wearing a towel.
What's Ahead for 2024 Inside the Wooden Block Labyrinth...
January 1, 2024
Music! Comics! Video Games! And One Incredible Year!
Winamp Wednesday: What You Became
December 28, 2023
A trip on a Black Balloon to end the year.
Holiday Shopping at an Infamous Ohio Dollar Store
December 23, 2023
All right, let’s get the most important detail out of the way first: I went to the Evil Stick store. Seen Inside: Zero Evil Sticks! This place caused a minor...
Winamp Wednesday: Both Arms in Plaster
December 20, 2023
A toast to St. Joe Strummer
A Very Wooden Block Labyrinth Christmas!
December 18, 2023
Watch these and know me better, man!
Winamp Wednesday: And What It's All About...
December 13, 2023
I'll love you! I'll miss you!
Watching a 1998 Broadcast of The Living Daylights!
December 8, 2023
15 Days of 007, 25 Years Ago...
Winamp Wednesday: Closer Together
December 6, 2023
Christmas starts with an all-time 90s classic.
Winamp Wednesday: Shouting All About Love
November 29, 2023
For the ones who say it all.
Winamp Monday: It's Not for Me
November 27, 2023
Evolving and devolving to find something newly traditional.
Five MST3K Episodes for Turkey Day
November 23, 2023
These movies are as elusive as Robert Denby!
Winamp Wednesday: The Point of Getting Out
November 15, 2023
On being someone else for a while.
Winamp Wednesday: Ever Since the Day We Met
November 8, 2023
A perfect one-hit wonder and a wild belief about this world...
Winamp Wednesday: Such a Price to Pay
November 1, 2023
It's got the best of me...
Winamp Wednesday: Time is the Season
October 25, 2023
On unusual Halloween melodies and the essence of cool.
Pardon Our Dust...
October 24, 2023
We go now live to the WBL...
The Girl on the Curb
September 10, 2023
What I remembered about 9/11, before and after, at seventeen and twenty-seven.
Digging Your Scenes.
September 4, 2023
On Smash Mouth, Labor Days, the people we were and who we want to be.
Vacation Days at the WBL
July 3, 2023
Meanwhile, at headquarters...
Winamp Wednesday: It's All Up to You
June 28, 2023
You could be better than you are...
Ranking the Posters of the 1998 Summer Movies
June 22, 2023
Does Size Matter?
Winamp Wednesday: Six for Solstice
June 21, 2023
A longest-day countdown!
Winamp Wednesday: I Can Play This Here Guitar
June 14, 2023
And I Won't Quit Til I'm a Star...
Astrud Gilberto (1940-2023)
June 8, 2023
Each one she passes goes...
Winamp Wednesday: Now That You're Older
June 7, 2023
SAVE FERRIS
The Greatest Characters from the Greatest Movie Ever Made, i.e. Rumble in the Bronx: Part One
June 5, 2023
"WHO killed LANCE?"
Winamp Wednesday: No Future or Family Tree
May 31, 2023
Time to learn what a prince and lover ought to be...
Winamp Wednesday: Ooh, Talk to Me
May 24, 2023
Who Needs Guitars, Anyway?
Card Readings: Scream Real Loud!
May 19, 2023
Wish? Did somebody say wish?
Winamp Wednesday: I Saw It Written
May 17, 2023
"Pink Moon" is on its way...
Wooden Block Origins: Forbidden Planet
May 13, 2023
Where do we become the people we always were?
Winamp Wednesday: Living in a Bubble
May 10, 2023
Spaceballs: The Substack Post!
Winamp Wednesday: Drawing Stick Figures
May 3, 2023
In Memory of Greg Howard
Winamp Wednesday: I Sit Here Alone
April 26, 2023
Time to go absolutely Wilde...
The Five Best One-Scene Characters in The Princess Bride
April 24, 2023
They're as real as the feelings you feel...
Winamp Wednesday: There Are No Words
April 19, 2023
So let us Venture forth...
Card Readings: It's All Right...
April 18, 2023
Whoa! Okay, time out (to read a Substack)!
Winamp Wednesday: Sharif Don't Like It
April 12, 2023
By order of the prophet: ban that boogie sound!
Card Readings: Hangin' Tough
April 11, 2023
Put your Tarot down and do a New Kids Dance!
Winamp Wednesday: I Wanna Hear the Cannon!
April 5, 2023
Not the loon...
Things I'm Watching: COVID Edition
April 4, 2023
Only three years into a pandemic...
Triple Play for Opening Day
March 30, 2023
Hurry up and come on down...
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