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Number One with a Bullard is a blog and email newsletter

about culture, memory, and the myriad causes and mysterious effects of our modern mass nostalgia. The causes include tricks of memory, the power of mass media, the spread of technology, and the failures of that same technology. The effects include old songs topping the charts, the creation of pop culture relics, and corporations profiting from nostalgists’ whims.

But while this might seem serious and heady,

the newsletter contains jokes, many of them at the writer’s expense. It also features interesting history, assorted games, hypothetical questions, repeated references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and recommendations for good records that are gathering dust in your local shop’s dollar bin.

If you prefer to listen rather than read

this newsletter is available as an audio dispatch. For access to this feed, become a paid subscriber at any amount.

The author of this newsletter is not

a huckster, quack, or modern-day Harold Hill out to make a quick buck from the army of internet nostalgists. He’s Gabe Bullard. He has spent most of his life as a journalist, doing everything from reporting stories to managing social media to programming a public radio station. His interest in nostalgia grew out of his time living in the South and the Lower Midwest. He has studied nostalgia in an academic setting as a Nieman Fellow and while completing a degree in literature, culture, and technology at American University. He has a website with work samples beyond what you’ll find here. He exists.

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