"Sometimes, when I can’t sleep and know I can’t do anything focused, I look at old digitized magazines and newspapers.” Yes, yes - this 1000x. One of the ways I've gotten through the last few months is to tediously upload the entire 80+ issue run of a nearly totally forgotten DC 70s underground paper to the Internet Archive. It's underrated as a form of therapy / self-soothing.
See the issues of "Woodwind" here (maybe start at the end w/vol. 5, no. 7, which contains an overview of a 'glitter weekend' in D.C., featuring the New York Dolls at Lisner Auditorium, the debut 'Snow Queen Ball' drag party and Lou Reed playing the Kennedy Center for an example of the kind of on-the-ground reporting on stuff the straight local papers almost entirely ignored for why I love it): https://archive.org/details/@eastern_branch. I also recently posted a full run of publications from a 70s/early 80s counterculture video collective here + a 400+ page, v. scarce 1913 directory of Black residents of D.C. that I scanned. Apparently scanning and metadata are how I'm going to get through this?
"Sometimes, when I can’t sleep and know I can’t do anything focused, I look at old digitized magazines and newspapers.” Yes, yes - this 1000x. One of the ways I've gotten through the last few months is to tediously upload the entire 80+ issue run of a nearly totally forgotten DC 70s underground paper to the Internet Archive. It's underrated as a form of therapy / self-soothing.
Wow! I want to look...!
See the issues of "Woodwind" here (maybe start at the end w/vol. 5, no. 7, which contains an overview of a 'glitter weekend' in D.C., featuring the New York Dolls at Lisner Auditorium, the debut 'Snow Queen Ball' drag party and Lou Reed playing the Kennedy Center for an example of the kind of on-the-ground reporting on stuff the straight local papers almost entirely ignored for why I love it): https://archive.org/details/@eastern_branch. I also recently posted a full run of publications from a 70s/early 80s counterculture video collective here + a 400+ page, v. scarce 1913 directory of Black residents of D.C. that I scanned. Apparently scanning and metadata are how I'm going to get through this?
I self-soothe by looking at digitized old magazines. Village Voice is one I am going to add to the rotation!
Kate, it's so good. And I'm not surprised this is also something you do.