OK, OK. They're not really in prison. I'm actually not sure what's going on here. But it is a vintage photograph, measuring 3½ inches by 5 inches. Written on the back is the date of September 11, 1952. But there's nothing else about these two smiling criminals.
In the meantime, here are some links to a wide and rambling and eclectic variety of great things to read. I promise y'all will find a few things here that pique your interest. If not, I'll mail you a vintage postcard to compensate you for your lost surfing time.
- York Daily Record: "Lassa fever took its first U.S. victim in York County 46 years ago. Here is the family's untold story" by Joan Concilio
- The Atlantic: "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The New York Times: "Ta-Nehisi Coates to Write Black Panther Comic for Marvel" by George Gene Gustines
- Vanity Fair: "Decades After Her Death, Mystery Still Surrounds Crime Novelist Josephine Tey" by Francis Wheen
- Rock Paper Shotgun: "How GOG.com Save And Restore Classic Videogames" by Tom Bennet
- The New York Times: "Hemingway Was a Pack Rat. Here’s What His Mementos Reveal." by Charles McGrath
- Odd Things I've Seen: "Hey, Hey, We’re the Monsters: The Monstrous Monkee Mash" by J.W. Ocker
- The Atlantic: "Hit Charade: Meet the bald Norwegians and other unknowns who actually create the songs that top the charts" by Nathaniel Rich
- Priceonomics: "The Cookie Butter Patent Wars" by Rosie Cima
- Smithsonian.com: "That Time When Ansel Adams Posed for a Baseball Trading Card" by Brad Balukjian
- Atlas Obscura: "The duke, the landscape architect and the world's most ambitious attempt to bring the cosmos to earth" by Alina Simone
- NPR: "What We Lose When A Neighborhood School Goes Away" by Gene Demby
- Slate: "Choose Your Own Adventure – How The Cave of Time taught us to love interactive entertainment" by Grady Hendrix
- BBC: "The lost tunnels buried deep beneath the UK" by Chris Baraniuk
- Slate: "Once regarded as a symbol of backwardness, Iceland’s historic turf-roofed homes are making a comeback" by Mark Hay
- My Inside Voices: "The Big D" by Susan Jennings
- Al Jazeera America: "How the north ended up on top of the map" by Nick Danforth
- Strange Maps: "Fabled and False: the Mountains of Kong" by Frank Jacobs
- Longreads: "Loving Books in a Dark Age: In the 'dark ages' of Europe, people began reading silently to themselves, and a love of books and learning took hold, pioneered by Bede" by Michael Pye
- Rolling Stone: "'Space Jam' Forever: The Website That Wouldn't Die" by Erik Malinowski
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