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Allegheny Time (Entry 032.MT2436) Jan 19, 2021

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In which a series of traumatic train accidents and a broke astronomer conspire to re-invent time as a flat circle, and John accidentally attends a clock unveiling. Certificate #13818.

Otokichi (Entry 879.2C1125) Dec 31, 2020

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In which a freak Pacific storm in 1832 makes one young castaway an unusual ambassador for the Empire of Japan, and Ken is unable to justify the Gospel of John. Certificate #37850.

Woodstock '99 (Entry 1441.IS2808) Dec 29, 2020

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In which a fiery apocalypse outside Rome, New York marks the cultural endpoint of the 1990s, and John spends his whole childhood reading about armaments in Janes publications. Certificate #27287.

Kon-Tiki (Entry 692.MT1424) Dec 24, 2020

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In which a Norwegian amateur anthropologist sails a raft from Peru to Polynesia to push a pet theory, and Ken covets ink and gold. Certificate #18688.

The War Before This One (Entry 1409.NH0109) Dec 22, 2020

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In which we follow the long, strange journey that finally got World War I and World War II their names, and John goes for drinks with his high school principal. Certificate #24737.

Slab City (Entry 1170.IS3501) Dec 17, 2020

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In which itinerant snowbirds turn an abandoned desert naval base into a trash-mountain utopia, and Ken hopes a nuke lands on his head. Certificate #33204.

Carlo Gesualdo (Entry 526.HE1304) Dec 15, 2020

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In which modernity discovers a late Renaissance composer with a history of ahead-of-his-time harmonies and lurid murder, and John scats like Cab Calloway after midnight. Certificate #39859.

The Guardian Angels (Entry 554.EX2320) Dec 10, 2020

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In which a Brooklyn-born fast food manager slaps some paramilitary berets on local kids and starts a new community policing movement, and Ken wonders how to allocate the stripes on the American flag. Certificate #25639.

B. Traven (Entry 1332.PR2502) Dec 08, 2020

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In which we trace at least four secret identities of the most reclusive novelist in literary history, and John gets a terrible fake ID from the fake ID store. Certificate #39453.

Dingbat Apartments (Entry 351.AC2830) Dec 03, 2020

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In which we learn why Los Angeles and other post-war American cities have tens of thousands of the same apartment complex, and Ken wonders where Philip Johnson's water heater is. Certificate #25380.

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