eighties New Order's 'Blue Monday' but played on 1930s instruments Rusty Blazenhoff

david bowie David Bowie grills MTV about their failure to play videos by Black artists in this 1983 interview Janelle Hessig

television 1983 Thomas and Friends pilot episode uncovered Rob Beschizza

music R.E.M. releases remix of its song "Radio Free Europe" in support of Radio Free Europe Ruben Bolling

retrogaming 1983's Atari 1200XL: a super system doomed by a super price Rob Beschizza

Spoken Word with Electronics How to spout gibberish with a phoneme generator Ethan Persoff

movies How does "Darren Aronofsky's Stephen King's Cujo" sound to you? Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Get your own personal assistant for under $100 Boing Boing's Shop

cuisine Pizza Hut pop-up restaurant seats one Rob Beschizza

drugs New documents released about the US government's secret LSD mind-control program Allan Rose Hill

television Archer + Bob's Burgers and the other weirdest crossovers in TV history Allan Rose Hill

gadgets Mecha Comet is a handheld everything machine Rob Beschizza

science fiction Dark sci-fi genius wrote at superhuman speed — Barry Malzberg Ellsworth Toohey

public domain Racist Tintin to enter public domain in 2025; you'll have to wait a while longer for woke Tintin Rob Beschizza

christmas Flying fairy toy takes a fiery detour during present unwrapping time Popkin

olympics The 1904 Olympics Marathon gold medalist won while hallucinating on rat poison and brandy Ellsworth Toohey

star wars This Huttese cover of an 80s new wave hit is perfection Gail Sherman

Weird Cabbage Patch riots: the chaotic holiday toy craze of 1983 Popkin

music Machine Girl meets Game Boy: an 8-bit photo gallery Lux Sparks-Pescovitz