Unsorted but Significant
Ted AnthonyExploring the unnoticed building blocks of life. History, culture, family, memory, grief and other journeys.
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Run! The 1980s and 1990s Want to Kill You!
A version of this essay appeared recently on my other Substack, Storylines.
PLEASE TAKE HEED: I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up.
If that phrase means anything to you other than being concerned about me (which I assure you is not need...
FoodOde: The Mangosteen
A mangosteen at a Bangkok fruitseller. Photo ©2026, Ted Anthony.
One in an occasional series of brief, affectionate musings about unsorted edible items across the planet that this particular writer finds particularly significant.
T...
Turn the Page
My father’s datebooks. Photo ©2026, Ted Anthony.
Cross-posted from today’s Storylines, my storytelling Substack.
KEEPING TRACK HAS BEEN a hallmark of the Anthony family going back to the early 1800s. In so many ways, we have been...
The Lost Photographs of Penang
YEARS AGO, just a few months after 9/11, I found myself in Kabul, Afghanistan, talking with a soft-spoken Hazara man who had lived through the worst decades of his country’s conflicts. I asked him about his family.
“I never saw the face of...
Dew It Again
Frame from Mountain Dew commercial, 1981.
WHEN I WAS growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mountain Dew — then not yet the gamer fuel in all the rainbow’s colors that it has since become — aired an ad with an earworm jingle whose f...
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A journalist for 35 years, with reporting and analysis from more than 30 countries, the United States and China more than the rest. Endlessly fascinated with excavating the unnoticed building blocks of culture and what makes us tick.
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