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 […]
From the category archives:
The Haunted Attic
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 […]
Me and my dad at Veterans Stadium. You get the idea.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]