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Summer 2008

The Virtual Museum of Vintage VCRs' name is a bit redundant by this point, as most all VCRs, even the ones manufactured today, would likely be considered "vintage." But what a great place to revisit those machines you spent so many hours with, rewinding and fast-forwarding, forcing broken tapes out of, and always adjusting for better tracking. What's more, it's also a good reference to prove to your kids how incredibly old you are.

One of my prized possessions is a mimeographed handbill passed to me 15 years ago at the now-defunct Avalon on Belmont in Chicago for a southern rock glam band called 100 Proof. It's eight stapled pages of smudged photos captioned with hilarious profanity, cartoonish misogyny, and weird top ten lists ("No 5: Finding Weed You Forgot About"). On the last page is a really sincere note of appreciation ("We'd like to thank our fans for purchasing 1500 tapes!"). I don't know what happened to 100 Proof or its lead guitarist, but wherever "Tom Cat" is, I hope he's still "f***ing with the board at New River Studios" and finding bags of the bombdiggity in the toes of his Chuck Taylors.

Do Germans like hosiery? We're assuming that you're asking rhetorically, because of course Germans like hosiery. Everyone knows it. But if you somehow weren't aware, then maybe it's high time you visited the German Hosiery Museum to get yourself up to speed on thousands of years of the nation's proud hosiery history. From the "foot rags" of the Bronze Age to interactive 3D models of post-war tights, it's the entirety of the German hosiery phenomenon in all its clingy glory.

Anyone can collect things, but the true mettle of a collector is exposed as the subject becomes more specific. For instance, there are plenty of great license plate sites on the web, but how many are as narrowly focused, yet so expansive, as Mike Sells' 1976 License Plate Page? '76 was an interesting year for plates, with its many bicentennial designs, but you can bet there are other plate collectors out there obsessing over other, less distinctive years.

I don't know much about the series of novels about Simon Templar, aka "The Saint," but I do know a little about The MoOM, and one thing I know is that nothing makes for a more satisfying exhibit than a few pages jammed full of iterations on a single idea. Jean-Marc Lofficier's Saint Cover Gallery is exactly that. An expressive stick-figure placed in hundreds of situations by a group of inventive artists makes for a fun-to-browse collection that practically defines the idea of "variations on a theme."

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