Jeff Merrion gives an oral history of the country’s first serial murderer whose legend has been doomed to obscurity.
Jeff Merrion dissects a century of tension between the San Luis Valley’s inhabitants and those who come from the outside to gawk.
In his new travel series, Jeff Merrion explores San Luis Valley, a land known for flat terrain, bizarre locals, and unexplained animal mutilations.
Jeff Merrion lays out his case against the dissonant, disturbed indie pop of Jamie Stewart’s Xiu Xiu.
In his free time, Jeff Merrion likes to design children’s costumes that are horribly offensive and tasteless.
Can you figure a person out solely by what they like? Jeff Merrion appraises our judgmental generation with a pop culture personality test.
How much distance has grown between reality and its depiction in American pop culture? Jeff Merrion laments the widening gap between what we experience every day and what we see on TV.
Jeff Merrion braves a desolate Wyoming landscape to reach the fabled California coast by car.
In light of R. Kelly’s recent acquittal on all fourteen counts of child pornography, venerable musical scholar Jeff Merrion examines the subtlety and grace of the R&B star’s work.
Social critic Jeff Merrion takes another look at the juggalo subculture surrounding the Insane Clown Posse and examines the positive aspects of this community.
120 lbs. bodybuilder Jeff Merrion tries his hand at manual labor and discovers that physical exertion is hard, his employer is a racist, mold is gross, and that an imaginary Conor Oberst is laughing at him.
By day, Jeff Merrion is a mild-mannered writer for the Bureau; by night, he performs mild-mannered acoustic folk music. Even still, he knows a villain when he sees one and reveals Big Time Entertainment for what they really are: scammers.
Ralph Gamelli has some specific directions for when and how he is defrosted. Please read closely.
Jonathan Gourlay tries to count in Pohnpeian but never gets past “one.”
Jonathan Gourlay plays the game Braid, a platformer about time travel and regret.
The Bygone Bureau is an online magazine that publishes articles on culture and travel three times a week.
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