Tag: nostalgia

• Funky old music-room posters (September 28, 2026)

  I recently dropped into a musical-instrument shop in downtown Bangor, Maine while visiting family. On the wall of a storage space in back hung a collection of circa-1980 posters by Tom Batiuk featuring Harry Dinkle, the monomaniacal high school band director from the American comic strip Funky Winkerbean. These were clearly designed and sold for display in school music rooms, and they made me ache with unexpected nostalgia.

• Stacks, a modern Hypercard player (September 26, 2026)

  Stacks by Jeff Halter is a modern macOS application for loading and playing ancient and wonderful Hypercard stacks. It includes a browser of the Internet Archive’s Hypercard collection, which is how I have here queued up The Manhole, the Miller brothers’ 1988 precursor to Myst. (Via Daring Fireball )

• V (July 25, 2026)

  Bill shared this after someone else mentioned Sydney Greenstreet:

• Through off-white plastic, darkly (August 19, 2025)

  I found myself remembering the first nightlight that I had in my childhood bedroom, depicting Pinocchio and a goldfish. Perhaps there is only one image of it on the internet, but DuckDuckGo nonetheless led me quickly to the website of Jack’s Mart, a store in Japan that specializes in 20th century Americana. Whoever writes up their item-description pages puts some real care into it, enough for search engines to send me to the Jack’s Mart page about the nightlight.