Happy Friday! And now, a quick announcement.

We’re disappearing for two whole weeks! We haven’t had this much time off in ages. We’re not actually disappearing (tempting as it may be), but we’ll be away from the internet until Memorial Day. Folderol will return sometime that week, once we’ve caught up on everything.

Will we be visiting the parallel sites of Kcymaerxthaere? Well…probably not, but this site will keep you occupied for hours, if not days. There’s probably a marker near you, wherever you are!

Via Cassandra: You may have already heard of the Liberal Redneck, but did you know he’s now doing Game of Thrones recaps? They’re hilarious, too!

MC Marmot would like to remind everyone not to eat marmots. Especially raw. Because guess what, you might get THE PLAGUE. (Thanks to everyone who sent this – there were a bunch of you!)

Explore the weird crimes of the Victorians, like committing family members to insane asylums and stripping off people’s clothes. Humans are just weird.

Have a very spiffy rest of May, everyone! We’ll see you back here at the end of the month. Thanks for reading!

Have you heard of the Prittlewell Princely Burial Site? I hadn’t until today, when I found out about all the archaeological findings and the question of who exactly is buried there. 

Proof that there is a museum for everything: The Doorbell Museum! 

News archiving is in a terrible state. I know, you’ve heard me go on about this before. But now CJR delves into the gory details.

How did people make maps in the past? Archaeology Magazine shows some very different ways of visualizing spaces. 

If you’re into making maps for games (or just for fun), check out the Medieval City generator! (I think I linked to something similar before, but this is a new site, at any rate.)

What really happened at Tunguska? Well, Miskatonic University was leading an expedition, see… 

From Cassandra: Behold, the spookiest Air B&Bs you can visit!

The Met Gala did not disappoint, happily, due to amazing forces of nature like Billy Porter. 

My love for steampunk will never die, but it has transmogrified over the years into interest in hauntology and now into psychogeography…all of which are related, in some strange way. I think. Anyway, Hookland is a meeting place for many of these interests as well.

Happy Monday!

Tonight is the annual Met Gala, which promises to be extra wacky because this year’s theme is Camp: Notes on Fashion. I may even watch the livestream if the outfits are especially out there!

Short stories via vending machines are now available to London commuters.

In 1624, Giovanni Battista Bracelli published a collection of drawings which were ahead of their time. Look at the cubist robot figures!

Happy Friday, and farewell to Peter Mayhew, the very best Wookiee.

From Zazoo: A long, very good article on Robert Smith’s wife Mary and the thirty year anniversary of Disintegration (ye gods, 30 yrs?).

Via Darran Anderson’s Twitter: Thibaud Poirier’s jaw-droppingly amazing photos of modernist churches…including Notre-Dame-du-Travail, built in 1902 and a steampunkesque marvel. Also, additional photos of modern churches in Iceland! (I spent a lot of time and even got married in a modernist church of sorts, so these are near and dear to my heart.)

Have a safe and spiffy weekend, everyone. See you next week.

The Library of Congress has an online exhibit of old children’s books available for reading! I explored The Book of the Cat.

Awful Library Books takes a look at 1970s home decorating. I…think we may own this book. (Bunny likes bonkers ‘70s designs.)

Speaking of Bunny, here’s a link for him: Graffiti from 1700s bathrooms! It’s as crass/bizarre as one might expect.

Jessamyn visited all 183 of Vermont’s libraries, and did a talk about the quest. There’s a similar one going on in Massachusetts right now!