Just a warning that exploring James Lileks' site will suck you into spending a completely unreasonable number of hours marveling at his outstanding sense of humor (he wrote a great piece last week on the passing of P.J. O'Rourke) as well as the simultaneous wonderfulness and awfulness of mid-century American culture and life. The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a destination on its own, and the Matchbooks Collection will leave you amazed that they are so interesting...

It's pretty amazing that Lileks has kept it going for so long. I remember this being a major time-waster 25 years ago. Still haunted by The Gobbler.

I agree about the matchbooks. Some are hideous, but the best leave me astonished: the design talent there is really humbling. Imagine being able to make a tiny matchbook so beautifully evocative, so full of promise. Look at this one: http://www.lileks.com/match/museum/bars/1.html. I want to go there now.

> P.J. O'Rourke

Do you have a link for this?

Thanks!

Oh my gosh! The first link led me to a re-creation[0] of the sheep desktop pet I had on Windows 3.1!

[0] https://esheep.petrucci.ch/

Do you keep a catalogue of these?

Yeah, gotta catch 'em all and all that.

https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks.gmi

https://memex.marginalia.nu/links/fragments-old-web.gmi

Your site design is really nice. Original and much different than the usual navigation patterns you see and I like it's on both http:// and gemini://.

Thanks, it's a bit of an experiment.

I do think the filesystem metaphor can be pretty powerful, and backlinks are also amazing.

Those first two links really made my day.

Thanks bestie!