Wooden Block Dispatches: 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!
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
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
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
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
It's a history report, not a future report.
1999 at 25: A New Year's Box-Office Hangover
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
And sometimes wearing a towel.
What's Ahead for 2024 Inside the Wooden Block Labyrinth...
Music! Comics! Video Games! And One Incredible Year!
Winamp Wednesday: What You Became
A trip on a Black Balloon to end the year.
Holiday Shopping at an Infamous Ohio Dollar Store
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
A toast to St. Joe Strummer
A Very Wooden Block Labyrinth Christmas!
Watch these and know me better, man!
Winamp Wednesday: And What It's All About...
I'll love you! I'll miss you!
Watching a 1998 Broadcast of The Living Daylights!
15 Days of 007, 25 Years Ago...
Winamp Wednesday: Closer Together
Christmas starts with an all-time 90s classic.
Winamp Wednesday: Shouting All About Love
For the ones who say it all.
Winamp Monday: It's Not for Me
Evolving and devolving to find something newly traditional.
Five MST3K Episodes for Turkey Day
These movies are as elusive as Robert Denby!
Winamp Wednesday: The Point of Getting Out
On being someone else for a while.
Winamp Wednesday: Ever Since the Day We Met
A perfect one-hit wonder and a wild belief about this world...
Winamp Wednesday: Such a Price to Pay
It's got the best of me...
Winamp Wednesday: Time is the Season
On unusual Halloween melodies and the essence of cool.
Pardon Our Dust...
We go now live to the WBL...
The Girl on the Curb
What I remembered about 9/11, before and after, at seventeen and twenty-seven.
Digging Your Scenes.
On Smash Mouth, Labor Days, the people we were and who we want to be.
Vacation Days at the WBL
Meanwhile, at headquarters...
Winamp Wednesday: It's All Up to You
You could be better than you are...
Ranking the Posters of the 1998 Summer Movies
Does Size Matter?
Winamp Wednesday: Six for Solstice
A longest-day countdown!
Winamp Wednesday: I Can Play This Here Guitar
And I Won't Quit Til I'm a Star...
Astrud Gilberto (1940-2023)
Each one she passes goes...
Winamp Wednesday: Now That You're Older
SAVE FERRIS
The Greatest Characters from the Greatest Movie Ever Made, i.e. Rumble in the Bronx: Part One
"WHO killed LANCE?"
Winamp Wednesday: No Future or Family Tree
Time to learn what a prince and lover ought to be...
Winamp Wednesday: Ooh, Talk to Me
Who Needs Guitars, Anyway?
Card Readings: Scream Real Loud!
Wish? Did somebody say wish?
Winamp Wednesday: I Saw It Written
"Pink Moon" is on its way...
Wooden Block Origins: Forbidden Planet
Where do we become the people we always were?
Winamp Wednesday: Living in a Bubble
Spaceballs: The Substack Post!
Winamp Wednesday: Drawing Stick Figures
In Memory of Greg Howard
Winamp Wednesday: I Sit Here Alone
Time to go absolutely Wilde...
The Five Best One-Scene Characters in The Princess Bride
They're as real as the feelings you feel...
Winamp Wednesday: There Are No Words
So let us Venture forth...
Card Readings: It's All Right...
Whoa! Okay, time out (to read a Substack)!
Winamp Wednesday: Sharif Don't Like It
By order of the prophet: ban that boogie sound!
Card Readings: Hangin' Tough
Put your Tarot down and do a New Kids Dance!
Winamp Wednesday: I Wanna Hear the Cannon!
Not the loon...
Things I'm Watching: COVID Edition
Only three years into a pandemic...
Triple Play for Opening Day
Hurry up and come on down...