Thriftstorm #16 – We’re Looking Into the Future, Chuck

To some extent, Thriftstorm misrepresents thrift stores. In my first eight months of writing essays here, the oldest thing I reviewed was from the 1910s, and the newest was from the 1990s. But I used to work at a thrift store, sorting incoming donations, and about half that stuff was from the last five years. Continue reading Thriftstorm #16 – We’re Looking Into the Future, Chuck

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Thriftstorm #15 – You Will Have Good Nutrition if It Kills You

Thriftstorm is Captain Video’s secondhand anthropology project. Follow @Thriftstorm on Twitter for the latest news on things people were just going to throw away. Artifact: Mulligan Stew comic book, no issue number. Description: Color, printed on impressively cheap paper. Water damaged. … Continue reading Thriftstorm #15 – You Will Have Good Nutrition if It Kills You

Thriftstorm #5: And Crawling on the Planet’s Face, Some Insects Called the Human Race

Thriftstorm is Captain Video’s secondhand anthropology project. Follow @Thriftstorm on Twitter for the latest news on things people were just going to throw away. Artifact: Desktop globe. Description: Per the text panel in the North Pacific, this is Cram’s Earth … Continue reading Thriftstorm #5: And Crawling on the Planet’s Face, Some Insects Called the Human Race