(hat tip: memory-alpha.org) I suppose everyone has them (if not, I suppose I’m in trouble) – those signature lines from books, movies, and discussions with your parole officer that burn their way into your consciousness and become THE go-to line that always plays in your head during certain situations. Often (as I discovered when […]
Or at least central Alabama. My son and I went with his school class to the Blue Bell plant in Sylacauga, AL. It was a very long way by bus. What I discovered today is that a group of 2nd-graders pumped up by a day out of school (and raw sugar) simply never stop talking.
See America by Bus Read Post »
Perhaps nothing illustrates old-school marketing like old cigarette commercials. James Lileks posits that irony as we know it today didn’t exist in the culture of this period. How else would the audience sit still for this kind of earnestness? About cigarettes? Whatever the state of irony in those days, the public attitude about cigarettes was certainly different. People
Part Ohio State Patrol propaganda, part ’50’s nostalgia, part blood and guts – the Driver’s Education Film! Surely they’ve retired these by now, but I was shown similar films in 1983 in high school driver’s education. They were pushing 30 years old even then! Note the bad acting on the part of the dispatcher, and
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http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/story/10351386/rss “Simpson told the Associated Press that he was conducting a sting operation to collect his belongings at the Palace Station casino.” That’s our O.J. When he’s not working to find the real killers or writing thoughtful volumes on what, hypothetically speaking, he would have done if, hypothetically speaking, he did it, he’s assisting local
O.J. Simpson – deep, deep, deep undercover Read Post »
I stumbled into this treasure trove of old “educational” films at www.avgeeks.com – I thought these kind of films were ancient when I was in school, but now they seem from long, long ago… here’s a sample. Too bad they had never heard of bicycle helmets…
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Apparently, Paris Hilton trademarked “That’s hot.” http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0907072hallmark1.html?link=rssfeed R-ight. I can understand being miffed over her likeness being placed on a greeting card (after all, she’s conducted her life with a priority on maintaining her privacy), but come on. I’ve looked into trademarking my business name, and I thought there were some hoops to jump through. So is
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all Her book A Wrinkle in Time was one of the first books I remember reading. I remember identifying with Meg, and feeling that Camazotz, the place where everyone and everything was exactly alike, had some resonance with the people and places I was growing up with. It did not, and does not, compare with
Madeleine L’Engle 1918-2007 Read Post »
As I typed the above title, I wondered what kind of search engine spam would come my way – we get so much e-mail about “enlargement” these days. But wow, let me get off that train of thought… When I had a brief stint with an executive recruiter a few years ago, I noticed that
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-cyclistshearts&prov=ap&type=lgns In other news, they also seem to have less body fat and climb faster than average. Even the article states that “athlete’s heart,” i.e. the idea that the heart, like any other muscle, develops with strenous use, has been well understood for eons. I suppose the article represents “news” in that the study is new,
Yahoo article: Tour de France cyclists’ hearts larger than average Read Post »