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Nonsense! Nonsense, I say! Go HERE, for Nonsense!
Cars start in cold weather – in a second! Mm-hmm. Right.
And so a strange week – long, but brisk in tone – winds down to the hallowed Friday. In my world this means a few key traditions: after work, piano; after piano, pizza; after pizza, a nap in which I sink ten fathoms deep; then the pleasures of working all night on the website and [...]
Curtains, hair, underwear. Go HERE. Minor errors in text on first page; will fix.
If I can sum it up: the whistles indicate factories; the envelopes are pay envelopes. It’s 1932, and employment is up Up UP! So buy a tuxedo!
So: what the devil are they trying to sell?
Today: the usual package reviews, the usual customer-service exchange, a sick child, and some videos. Let’s begin:
Put up more lights on Sunday. Got out all the lights from last year, straightened them out, tested them, set aside the dead ones, plugged them in, and started the merry job of putting them on the tall [...]
Newspaper routes: that’s what J. Edgar was promoting. The character-building impact of having a newspaper route.
One word. One man. One image. Ah, but what is this an ad for? Yes, it’s an ad, not a public service announcement.
