(Note: this blog post ended up connecting me with a young woman doing an X-Files documentary who interviewed me in New York.)

I could safely fit three episodes of The X-Files on one VHS tape in Long Play mode.

And I did. In the late 90s and early aughts, I collected and categorized episodes in much the same way one would arrange a mixtape. Some episodes go together chronologically, others go together thematically, but maybe a few belong together instead? In the endless stream of new episodes and nightly reruns that existed when the show was running full force, I built a collection of bootleg tapes and created customized labels for them from low resolution stills I found online. In the prehistoric pre-streaming media internet, this was the only way I could preserve and re-live my favorite moments in the series.

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