For nearly thirteen years now, I’ve written a post every weekday at Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. The total comes to more than 3,800 so far, and here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2023:
- Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics
- How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Became Beloved Among Generations of Readers
- How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965)
- Learn the Korean Language with Hundreds of Episodes of Let’s Speak Korean Free Online
- Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night (1977)
- Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation
- RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and Others on His TV Show Night Music
- What It Takes to Pass “the Knowledge,” the “Insanely Hard” Exam to Become a London Taxicab Driver
- When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show Apostrophes (1978)
- Why the Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved & Influential Comic Strips
See also my ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.