Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere
Apparently if you remove Garfield, the comic strip becomes hilariously funny. Who knew?
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Highway to Lowdown
Simply the most terrifying album cover you will ever see.
Also - talk of the demise of reading may have been a touch premature.
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Go With It
Last two curiosities for today…
LP Cover Lover - a blog about ‘the world’s greatest LP covers.’
Can You Build A Life From $25?
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Forgotten Years
While we’re dabbling in old photographs, take a look at this series - titled ‘Medieval Boston’ posted on a message board. It’s an absolutely fascinating look at downtown Boston before the urban renewal projects of the 50s and 60s, before the Central Artery and the destruction of the West End.
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
All Along The Watchtower
Shorpy is one of my favorite websites; I love the weird array of old photographs that you can find there. Take for example, this picture of the Graf Zeppelin hovering over Jerusalem. The age and weathered appearance of the photo and the contrast created by a zeppelin flying over an ancient walled city combine to […]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
A Dead Song
I was just reminded of this lovely exchange from No Country For Old Men (the speaker is Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, one of the three main characters of the novel):
Me and Loretta…got set next to this woman, she was the wife of somebody or other. And she kept talkin about the right wing this […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Fast Car
Over at Welcome To LA they’re having a Burt-A-Thon, which I recommend you check out immediately. Especially since today’s entry is devoted to giving the classic Smokey and the Bandit its full measure of respect. I’ve long felt that Smokey is among the finest of Reynold’s movies, far superior to say, Cannonball Run, in […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
An Old Familiar Scene
“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunger back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into […]
