Floppys still in service, Sputnik intercepts, and Good To Go
Chuck E. Cheese shows still run on diskette (You can click the image or the link up top to bring up the tiktok video) All you really need to know you get...
Fresh Bananas! Perspective Shifts
Three stories (plus bonii) relating to shifting your perceptions.
Three Banana Thursday Special Dispatch
Hi, I've almost started this thing back up a couple of times now. But right now I'm thinking through what I can do with it, that will better connect up to...
Ecology, twerk rigs, and mystery
Pulling back to a broader context. One of the books I read earlier this year was Rust Belt Arcana, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. You’ll learn...
TBT returns: Sleep before brains, that explains
Welcome back to Three Banana Thursday! We’re off Substack now and on Buttondown.email, and coming to you from a new “from” email address. Please add...
The Freddy litmus test, bathroom waters, and more corvid exchanges
Nightmare fuel, or an antidote to nightmare fuel? I can’t decide if wacky Freddy Krueger and friends is the former or the latter. Please click in to this...
Comb jellies, glowing monotremes, and ocean acoustics
This last couple of weeks, I’ve been soothed by what’s going on with our biodiverse neighbors on Earth. As it happened lots of bananas relating to wonderous...
Green means 'whoa slow down'
The next bunch needs some more time to ripen. See you next week! (These wonderful illustrations were made for us by Kyle Brooks) With a stop light, green...
Workshop TikTok, Soundhouse, and Can
One internet, many TikToks. If you’re not-very-online, when you see stories in the news about the various social platforms it can be extremely difficult to...
Floating Odessa, 28 otters, and design fiction
The short tale of the floating potato sorter. This ethereal, Studio Ghibli-esque photo of what purports to be an abandoned Ukrainian potato sorter crossed my...
High chicken aspirations, Aristotle, Twitter radar
“Welcome to stay where she wants to be is a high chicken aspiration.” With this quote, manure and compost farmer Karl Hammer captures a sentiment that a...
Ric Flair's epistle, the crocupine, and telemelt
All the honors that you’ve won in the past can’t buy you a drink at any bar in this country. @NoContextFlair, the twitter home for clips from wrestler Ric...
Wire work, city pop, and thermal prints
The whole town walks on wires. Kevin Lawrence writes in Splice Today about a place called Tsovkra-1 in Dagestan, which is particularly remarkable for its...
Olive Garden ads, prison cheesecake, and the surprising merits of the thick human skull
I’m adding something new this week. In my ongoing effort to evolve this newsletter into a podcast organically and deliberately, I’ve been thinking about how...
Joyful song, future grief, and chicken care
Phone book or the bible, it doesn’t matter. If you’re not familiar with the late, great Toots Hibbert, and you don’t have access to just about any recording...
Melodies, habits, and a watermelon
“It’s the oldest song we know.” A recording from 1931 that captures a woman singing a short folk song becomes a thread that connects the Gullah Geechee...
Muppet promos, cellphone trees and UFO's
Imagine if your job was more like being in a contest or loyalty club. Imagine if the rules of the way you received each task in your work, and got paid for...
Nurdles, shrink-wrap, and mysteries
The world is always changing: the origins of shrink-wrapping records. I saw a tweet about nurdles a bit ago. Tristan Baurick @tristanbaurickLittle nurdle...
Ghost apples, library foxes, and useless jobs
Our banana harvester, Dave, is under the weather this week, so he passed me a basket of unripe bananas and let me pick three to share with you all. Socially...
Neuromusicology, Lego UI, and Cissy Strut tips
I’ve been at half strength or less this week, but I didn’t want to leave you all empty handed. Here are three raw, unprocessed bananas to hold you over....