---
name: "Spirochaete Trail"
subtitle: "A long-running essay blog on overlooked media and material culture"
date: 2026-05-20
link: https://spirochaetetrail.blogspot.com/
source: "Things Magazine"
topics:
  - general-delight
tags: [blog, essays, media-criticism]
description: "A long-running essay blog with a curatorial-essayistic approach to overlooked films, books, and design objects — quietly excellent and largely unread."
---

Spirochaete Trail has been running essays on overlooked media for over a decade — film, book, and design pieces that mix close reading with material culture analysis. Long-form, well-researched, and largely unread because the URL ends in `.blogspot.com`. Surfaced via Things Magazine.