“In the studio commissary on Paramount lot Film Star Angela Lansbury, wearing prop coronet and ermine from her morning stint as the princess in Danny Kaye’s new movie Court Jester, munches plebian hamburger next to Basil Rathbone.”
[Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, from “The U.S. Goes Out to Lunch,” Life, January 3, 1955. Via the Life photo archive.]
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Chock full o’Nuts lunch hour (Another Eisenstaedt photograph)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Angela Lansbury and Basil Rathbone
By Michael Leddy at 9:31 AM comments: 4
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
An iPad per semester
The Washington Post reports that Seton Hill University — the Pennsylvania school that’s giving an iPad to every full-time student — will be adding a $500 per semester fee to cover the cost of increased bandwidth and wireless access. In effect, an iPad per semester. The large print giveth, and the &c.
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“iPads for EVERYONE!”
By Michael Leddy at 7:36 AM comments: 1
The government-issue pen
“It’s the Coca-Cola of ink pens,” said Richard Oliver, operations manager at Industries of the Blind in North Carolina. “Everybody recognizes this pen.”From a Washington Post article on the lowly, mighty government-issue pen. Bonus: specifications.
Update: There’s a great source online.
By Michael Leddy at 7:10 AM comments: 5
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Home sweet Homer
Bornova mayor Kamil Okyay Sındır: “All findings indicate Homer lived in Bornova.”
Gaziemir mayor Halil İbrahim Şenol: “It is not true that Homer lived in Bornova, and our research will support and reveal the truth.”
Turkish mayors battle to claim Homer:
This is Homer's real home, says mayor (Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review)
[Post title with apologies to the Odyssey episode of Wishbone.]
By Michael Leddy at 6:40 AM comments: 1
Monday, April 19, 2010
Eddie Feibusch
Says Eddie Feibusch, eighty-six-year-old zipper maven, “A button is unpleasant.”
For Eddie Feibusch, a Life in Zippers (New York Times)
ZipperStop (“Unzipping America since 1941”)
By Michael Leddy at 5:26 PM comments: 0
Marcel Proust exhibit
In Paris, an exhibit of 160 documents:
Proust, du temps perdu au temps retrouvé (Musée des lettres et manuscrits)
The website is a Flash nightmare. Don’t overlook the PDF.
By Michael Leddy at 5:22 PM comments: 1
Henry Darger exhibit
“These are the images to which Darger woke up each morning, returned to every evening after church and work, and retired to at night.”
The Private Collection of Henry Darger (American Folk Art Museum)
By Michael Leddy at 5:20 PM comments: 0
Inverabretes, a creative story
A Google search that brought someone to my post “Extra credit?”: extra credit inverabretes creative story. So:
Once upon a time, there were three inverabretes. They were careless spellers, every one. And when they did not do well on their spelling test, they asked their teacher for extra credit. “Plese, plese, plese,” they cried. Their teacher, who had a backbone, suggested that they study harder for the next test. And they did. And they did better.
By Michael Leddy at 6:57 AM comments: 5
Sunday, April 18, 2010
“The Trustworthiness of Beards”
Mine: “Very Trustworthy.” View them all:
The Trustworthiness of Beards (via Andrew Sullivan)
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By Michael Leddy at 3:11 PM comments: 0
Saturday, April 17, 2010
In praise of shyness
“At the very least, if you’re shy, you’re never bored.”
James Parker, Let Us Now Praise Shyness (Boston Globe)
By Michael Leddy at 11:31 AM comments: 1