Image credit: L’Hibou’s “Le Wal-Mart de la rue Karl-Marx”
While talking with my neighbor Kent Ippolito a few weeks ago, the conversation somehow found its way to a fascinating fact I had never heard before, namely that Wal-Mart has for decades had a policy that allows RVers of all types to stay in their parking lot [...]
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Christine Jorgenson: An early transexual in the media
Published by June 4th, 2009 in americana and pop culture. 3 CommentsWhile reading and writing about an article on early 3-D cinema in Filmfax, I was taken by one particular bullet point in a sidebar time capsule about 1952:
Returning from Ne York from Copenhagen on Dec. 15, after undergoing some 2,000 hormonal injections and six operations to transform a slender former G.I. name [sic] George into [...]
I finally got around to picking up the latest issue of Filmfax, and I just happened to open up to Michael Stein’s “Confessions of a Rat Fink!”—an interview with Ed “Big Daddy” Roth who was an icon of the Kustom Kulture movement in the 1950s and 60s. I knew little or nothing about this [...]
Your friendly internet Spider-man
Published by April 3rd, 2009 in americana and pop culture. 6 CommentsFrom Jerry at Cartoon Brew:
Marvel.com is posting the entire series of the 1967 ABC Spider-man Saturday morning cartoon show, one episode per week (each Thursday) on their site. It’s amazing that talents like John Dunn and Herman Cohen worked on this stuff. I don’t know if I can watch more than one – however the [...]
Without Cigarettes There Would Be No Baseball Cards
Published by January 21st, 2008 in americana, images, pictures and richmond. 2 CommentsWell, I’m not actually sure this blog title is entirely true, and that’s why I can freely publish it here. I found this 1887 baseball card on Shorpy’s Photo blog. It features the likeness of Chicago White Stockings first baseman Adrian C. Anson (also known as Cap Anson).
An early baseball card like this is in [...]
Propaganda Techniques
Published by January 18th, 2008 in YouTube, americana, insructional technology, pop culture and video. 2 CommentsEducational film to teach viewers about the dynamics of propaganda…A teacher dissects the processes in which propaganda works to an eager student. In it are moments of classic hokum, but curiously it all rings true today. Link.
I witnessed a U.S. Civil War re-enactment on my street today. It was a rather involved affair that replayed the Union’s defeat in the first Battle of Fredericksburg, but specifically I saw the slaughter of the Union’s Irish Brigade in Marye’s Heights. Here’s a quick description from Wikipedia:
The brigade suffered its most severe casualties [...]
This post on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog praised the iconic daredevil well before his death and far better than most ever could. The post contains an unbelievable assortment of links and resources about Knievel.
And while I can’t say I was ever a die-hard Evel Knievel fan, waiting for him to jump that pool [...]
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