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Pipe Wrench is a nonprofit reader-supported quarterly magazine. Each issue features one great longform piece surrounded by a constellation of reactions, digressions, asides, and ephemera. It’s the unforgettable story, the excited conversation about it, and the 3AM internet rabbit hole all rolled into one.
As you read, we’ll help you out with links and margin notes that highlight the ways pieces connect and overlap with each other. And everything you see here was created by people who were paid fairly, given contracts created in partnership with the National Writers Union, and supported editorially.
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The Late-Nite Special:
A Medium Bucket of Popcorn Trivia
January 19th is National Popcorn Day. Plan your observance accordingly.
Need fun family Popcorn Day activities? If you try Popcorn Air Hockey, please send video.
Wise words from TikTok: “The medium is always a scam.” Plus: your buttering woes, solved.
Counterpoint: save cash at the theater by “using your kid as a candy mule.”
The world’s only popcorn museum is still only the
7th most popular attraction in Marion, Ohio.
Your popcorn is too damn expensive because of
a SCOTUS case from 1948.
The Power Pops are “an elite team of popcorn superheroes who all work for the good of the popcorn crop.” Stay on your toes, Marvel.
Act II pops the most efficiently according to a very scientific study. Citations include “My Mom.”
Netflix, chill, and charge your friends $9.
Make your own ranked grid of movie theater snacks. Compare with your friends! Gloat in your rightness!
“I’m not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don’t have time. I just don’t go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.”
David Lynch
We Made You a Mix Tape
Who wants a playlist? Ten great songs picked by ten great people you’d want to be friends with if you knew them IRL. When folks join Pipe Wrench as barter members, we ask them if…
Deep Pockets
No, literally. Y’all have deep pockets in your outerwear. As part of our Issue Five launch National Popcorn Day observance, we asked several thousand of our best friends on Twitter: https://twitter.com/criticaldoll/status/1483484842021081092 We can’t help but…
Oh right, we have a blog.
It’s a new year, a new issue is coming, and and it’s time for some new approaches. We’re in the thick of putting Issue Five together — no spoilers, although we will tell you that…
“I don’t think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.”
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