On the train today , Cyndi Lauper ’s “ All Through the Night ” came on my iPod , and it shot me back in one of those quick , brainiac - stem - storage second , to pre - internet times . The ’ LXXX . I find this bill .
This has a decidedly ’ 40s-’50s aesthetic , but still , I can imagine even as a kid in the Reagan years , it would have been considered an incredible service to fill out a Wiley Post card with a research query , place it out to some no - name town in California , and in a month or so , receive a packet of sourced information from around the earth on your topic , for destitute .
Fuck , I ca n’t believe the cyberspace sometimes . This , ironically , surfaced as a conception for an e - lineup you may beam via the Dutch land site Boomerang . [ BoomerangviaFFFFound ]
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