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The Haunted Attic

How Television Ruined Christmas in the 1970s

by kara on December 17, 2015

Reposted from 2010. Christmas, as we all know, is a time of joy, goodfellowship, and political score settling, as well as some good old fashioned rioting for electronics. Four decades ago, televised Christmas specials were as integral to the celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus as trees, lights and presents. When we reference […]

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by kara on July 1, 2013

via Karsten Moran for The New York Times The “French Connection” was in theaters. The Mets and the Yankees finished in fourth place. The city referred to itself as the Big Apple for the first time in advertising campaigns. And that same year, 1971, the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduced a colorful piece of metal […]

Super Dad.

by kara on June 19, 2011

Me and my dad at Veterans Stadium. You get the idea.

Anatomy of a Dress.

by kara on June 13, 2011

  This is the dress, Marcia’s dress for the school dance. I was pretty obsessed with the dress. The dress was white lace with black buttons, a short black skirt and a hot pink sash. The color combo was very modern millie. I had never seen anything like it, it was dreamy and mod. I […]

WHAT HAPPENED TO BOYS?

by kara on May 27, 2011

This morning, Leslie complained that the dude cast to play Gale in the Hunger Games looks really… “big”. Gale isn’t buff and beefy! In our eyes anyway, he’s lanky and brooding. Then we further complained about how the boy heros in Twilight are either man-like or all hunked-out. Melissa told me once that she was […]

The Philly Sound

by kara on January 7, 2011

28 Years Ago.

by kara on November 15, 2010

In November 1982, A 10 year old schoolgirl from Maine named Samantha wrote a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, seeking to understand why the relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were so tense: Dear Mr. Andropov, My name is Samantha Smith. I am ten years old. Congratulations on your new job. […]

Barbie Dream House in Alphabet City.

by kara on October 21, 2010

I love this photo of “Barbie Dream House After Dark” from Manhattanite As photographed by me last night on the way home from dinner. The house (including furniture, it looks like) is for sale today at that shitty flea market on Avenue A and 11th Street. If any YM reader purchases this 1970’s yellow-and-orange BDH, […]