From the monthly archives: January 2010
So. I’m on the phone for the weekly radio interview on the Hewitt show, and ccrrrssssh! (that’s the sound that says you’ve gone live) he introduces me and asks and question, and just as I open my trap to say something THE ALARMS GO OFF and the phone goes dead. Well. The reason for the [...]
From Stephen Foster to “Brockman, to the ants submits,” or, How the Brain Works
Looking at today’s news stories, talking about headlines, said: Election fills the seat once held by Dick Day. I heard it as music, Camptown-Races meter: election fills the seat once held! Dick Day! Dick Day! (Every [...]
It’s a big one, a full-page ad. To boil it down: the wife learned that this spicy-sounding magazine was actually True to Life and Wholesome and not at all a wedge through which Bolshevism could enter their house.
Star-studded and hella swingin’. Cameo appearance by – well, you’ll see. Inspiration by Man Ray? Anything’s possible. Go HERE.
Given the following – 1924 ad / family newspaper – what could they possibly be selling? Answer later today.
It’s a scattershot Bleat day – somewhat jagged day, and a night that had one quick duty after the other. I wonder: who are these people who manage to watch 40 hours of TV a week? The idea of coming home and eating and sitting in front of the TV until you go to bed [...]
Oh MAN, the fun I’ve had with the Ellie Light story. For the record, I don’t care if the White House has someone astroturfing letters to the editor, because it’s about as effective as using semaphore lamps at high noon on a cloudless day at a convention of the blind, and there are more important [...]
There used to be a site in the Institute of Official Cheer devoted to old magazine ads; it’s gone away, as I divvy up the material elsewhere. This marks the start of the 1930s site. All-new material so far. Go HERE!
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