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High Times, May 1980. Cover art by Frank Frazetta.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Desperately Seeking Mothman: “The Scythian Lamb, after all, was equal parts Venus flytrap and baby lamb, a mysterious woolly gourd,” says Tara Isabella Burton<\/a>, on the trail of cryptids old and new.<\/p>\n \u2022 “In my youth of course I indulged in such stunts as bringing forth a Boramez, or a so-called vegetable lamb.” It’s that lamb again, in a translation of pages from The Voynich Manuscript<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “2022: Be willing to be dazzled,” says S. Elizabeth<\/a>. Also, follow her blog because she’s always turning up strange and wonderful things.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Why do we count down to the New Year?” Alexis McCrossen<\/a> explores the history of countdowns, from Fritz Lang to the present day.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Snow coats reality in a fresh layer of strangeness,” says Charlie Fox<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Spending the War Without You: Laurie Anderson’s Norton Lectures<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Our Hands Against The Dusk<\/em><\/a> by Rachika Nayar.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: Fact Mix 840 by Time Is Away<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Galerie Dennis Cooper presents…Piet Zwart<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Does It Matter Irene?<\/em><\/a> (1979) by The Mothmen | Tardis (Sweep Is Dead, Long Live Sweep)<\/em><\/a> (1981) by The Mothmen | Mothman<\/a><\/em> (1981) by The Mothmen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High Times, May 1980. Cover art by Frank Frazetta. \u2022 Desperately Seeking Mothman: “The Scythian Lamb, after all, was equal parts Venus flytrap and baby lamb, a mysterious woolly gourd,” says Tara Isabella Burton, on the trail of cryptids old and new. \u2022 “In my youth of course I indulged in such stunts as bringing … Continue reading “Weekend links 602”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 602","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,42,4,29,43,11,3],"tags":[11983,11984,3109,729,385,1606,11979,11987,11985,1852,11980,11981,11988,11982,11986],"class_list":["post-21212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-electronica","category-magazines","category-miscellaneous","category-music","tag-alexis-mccrossen","tag-charlie-fox","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-frank-frazetta","tag-fritz-lang","tag-laurie-anderson","tag-mothman","tag-piet-zwart","tag-rachika-nayar","tag-s-elizabeth","tag-scythian-lamb","tag-tara-isabella-burton","tag-the-mothmen","tag-the-voynich-manuscript","tag-time-is-away"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5w8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}