
Little Mind Vacations: Liminal Space Mysteries
It’s 4 in the morning, and you’re in a 24-hour Midtown spa. Who’s next to you in the sauna? Where does that door lead? This week, it’s all about the mysteries right around us.
Google Image Search: “Spa Castle Premiere 57”
There are two Reply All episodes that I will think of probably for the rest of my life. They’re my favorite sort of mystery — a mystery where no one’s in danger, per se, but it’s just as haunting. There’s an uncanny valley quality, taking an element of the every day, and playing around with our concept of what really happened. The idea, for instance, that there’s a hit song that didn’t actually exist — or how we look at what appears to be a completely average early-2000s photo — is thrilling.
Next up, Sweet Peach. This channel with just 207 subscribers makes cryptic videos soundtracked with atonal bleeps. It’s testing something — but what?
If you’ve spent time on a New York City subway, you’ve almost certainly seen this flier tucked illegally inside the edge of a plastic ad casing. The all-seeing eye advertises Keano, a “spiritual consultant” and “powerful master in love.” Almost exactly a year ago, a New York Times reporter went on a quest to find out who Keano is, leading him to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and a woman seemingly running a pretty good scam.

Via Messy Nessy Chic —> “Who Remembers The Studio 54 of Texas?” —> Good lord, to have been in Dallas in the ’80s! I did not know about the Starck Club, a beacon of excess in an abandoned warehouse, co-owned by Stevie Nicks. Ecstasy was sold over the bar (it was legal in Texas back then) and, in fact, the club was the bull’s eye of a Reagan administration drug raid.
“Authorities blamed the nightspot for starting a drug epidemic,” Messy Nessy writes. “When a major federal bust occurred, there was allegedly ecstasy all over the dance floor as people quickly unloaded their night’s stash.” There’s also this Red Bull Music Academy article about Starck Club’s legacy! But the true gems are found in this documentary’s Facebook page comment section.
Blingee Museum Entry of the Week: “Valentine” by alwayswellsaid