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Tag: scenic views from the 20th century

  • Quick, what’s the first thought that springs to your mind when you view this image

    Quick, what’s the first thought that springs to your mind when you view this image

    Boingboing today pointed to this film, “Century 21 Calling…”, dated 1964 but courtesy of the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. Toward the beginning of the film, the camera following a teenage couple gleefully riding the monorail, we get this rear shot of them. What first comes to your mind? Me? I thought, ah, so here…

  • The Boy Who Loved Jawbreakers

    I’ve been going through my files today looking for several pages of writing that I now fear are lost, probably dumped in one of my purges. But I found this, which I’d forgotten about, which I wrote a few years ago. * * * * * * Mom. I always find it refreshing when somebody…

  • The Mug Show

    For the blog – mugs Originally uploaded by idyllopus. Saying Yes informs that The World’s Fair is wanting to know what kind of mug you drink from for the purpose of interpretations of the cultural and environmental philosophy of your mug. The World’s Fair has a set of questions and well, sure, why not. 1.…

  • Mundane Story About a Three Day Gig at a Movie Theater

    Originally uploaded by eman59. The photo to the side isn’t mine. It’s by Eman59, whose photography I’m following at Flickr right now. I love the photo, which is universal (for all who’ve interacted with a box office window), but it also reminded me of a job I once had. Post pop-psychedelia, a movie theater opened…

  • Parenting a nine-year-old, after you stop wondering if you have a poltergeist, you start wondering if you’ve lost your mind

    WHERE DID IT GO? We’ve had problems with lost items in the past, in this apartment, which have nothing to do with H.o.p. I had long ago concluded there are teeny tiny blackholes abounding that science knows nothing about, which suck up random belongings and very occasionally spits them back out a few months later,…

  • Head

    Nearly 40 years after, here I sit watching The Monkees’ one and only feature film, Head, on a little Toshiba (won’t play on the ‘puter), my mind pretty well blown away by the fact this was co-written and co-produced by none other than Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin…

  • That sound you hear is millions and millions of cribs rolling over pearl-encrusted streets toward heaven

    Well, aren’t we all going to rest easier about all those little babies, stretching back to the dawn of humankind, which died before benefit of sprinkled baptism? Rome has decided that they all aren’t gurgling in Limbo cribs, eyes attempting to focus on the restrained delights of a distant heaven dangling from a mobile just…

  • Some Old Late 1970s Photos

    Some old late 1970s photos from the 2nd apartment we lived in while in college. Several old paintings of mine can be glimpsed in a couple of them.

  • Ride the Time Machine

    What fun. BoingBoing points to the below Atlanta access DANCE-O-RAMA bit o’ episode from the early 1980s in which RuPaul teaches all how to dance the Timothy Leary inspired “Freakout!” to The Glass Family’s “I’m Losing it”. I’ve not seen anything this funny in a while.

  • H.o.p. asks "What's your most embarrassing moment"

    H.o.p. is wanting to know things like “What’s your most embarrassing moment” and by this he means two or three dozen. As my whole life is an embarrassment I was unable to make a selection. But the co-adult is less tragic and does have a segment that he has always related as “most embarrassing”. He…

  • The small ways in which art imitates life – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    The small ways in which art imitates life – Sightseeing “Unending Wonders”

    Fireworks Emporium, Tennessee Fireworks Emporium Revisited, Tennessee – Google Maps Redux The thrill and explosive, thunderous pizazz of colorful fireworks, which we Americans so closely associate with the clarion call of freedom and the 4th of July, but instead of a celebration of peace were probably more intended to recall and celebrate the “rockets red…

  • Benadryl and Juliette of the Spirits doesn’t mix well

    One reason I’m slogging through mud around here is because I’ve been doing Benadryl round the clock for allergies the past couple of weeks, which I hate as sometimes it makes me feel quite doped. Had just taken some last night when I sat down to watch “Juliette of the Spirits”, which I’ve not seen…