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  • The wizards of speed and time

    The wizards of speed and time

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    I. VCR My weird friend Miller got into swap meets and Marie Kondo last year, after moving to the Goo, which I guess is a thing that happens when you move to the Goo. I don’t trade much in swap meets, but I casually mentioned that I was after a working VCR, having somehow managed…

  • VHS Nostalgia, Part I

    VHS Nostalgia, Part I

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    I don’t think you all realize how good tapes were. You’d have a tape. Big, wodgy thing. The size of a book, made of licorice. Inevitably noisy — predetermined to clatter, especially if you dropped one, which, don’t worry, they were basically indestructible, until they weren’t. The machines that handled them were noisy too: sound…