Weekly Munchies

The past, the future, and the Tickle-Me-Elmo craze of '96

We found out that winter will come to Westeros long before Winds of Wintercomes to bookstores.Rebecca Solnit had us slow-clapping for this article about sexist book recommendation lists.Darth Vader took up photography.Watson Trend arrived to warn of us shopping trends - because anyone who remembers the Tickle Me Elmo mass hysteria of ‘96, knows to be prepared.NASA announced they are taking astronaut applications!We saw how artists in the 1800s thought we’d be living in 2000 and now we must live in shame over our failure to create a whale bus.Ta-Nehisi Coates won a National Book Award.Boing Boing talked about new trends in eBooks (and a serial publisher you might be familiar with was happily included).Goldman Sachs and the Washington Post showed us how The Time of the Millennials has come - everyone gird your loins.And finally, Adele saved Thanksgiving.[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zyjbH9zzA[/embed]

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