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music Listen to this compelling mash-up of 50 songs from 1979 David Pescovitz

Japan LA has a cool exhibit about making robots at the new Japan House Mark Frauenfelder

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occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura

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