Apparently Amazon added a bunch of Price is Right episodes called "The Barker Era" to their hoard, and Grib is watching a couple of these things a night. I just pulled one up to verify what he had told me: that it's an incredibly robust Time Capsule that cuts through every layer. Fashion, palette, aspirations… the ambient radiation of an era. Dangerous Barker particles leapt straight through flesh - famously an enemy of animal cruelty, he had less chivalry perhaps for the human women who might share the stage. It's an insane diorama, and its descriptive power projects down into the substrata.
