Outtakes (9) A reader sussed out the identity of a mysterious store appearing in two NYC tax photographs.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
“Just ‘music’”
David Collyer, twenty-nine, forester and Labour Party organizer:
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).
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Davie’s hand : Rubbish
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More Stranger Things
I dunno — this trailer appears to promise a season devoid of all the charm that has made the series worth watching. But as Elaine said, we need to be good Americans and watch anyway.It’s time. See you on the other side.
— Netflix (@netflix) April 12, 2022
Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1 premieres May 27 pic.twitter.com/vMbYkZft0M
I have enjoyed seeing a Chock full o’Nuts can, the World Book Encyclopedia, and a pocket notebook in previous seasons of Stranger Things.
[As the trailer makes clear, you-know-who is still alive.]
By Michael Leddy at 9:07 AM comments: 0
Lost bookstores
From The New York Times, a tour in photographs: “Remembrance of Bookstores Past.” In 1950, there were an estimated 386 bookstores in New York City. In 2022, fewer than 100.
By Michael Leddy at 9:06 AM comments: 2
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Rubbish
Leonard Thompson, seventy-one, farm-worker:
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).
Also from Akenfield
Davie’s hand
By Michael Leddy at 7:46 AM comments: 0
Motive in prisons
“Big prisons in small towns”: that’s the focus of the third season of the WBEZ podcast Motive. The stories are Illinois-centric, but Illinois here is a stand-in for a nation.
By Michael Leddy at 7:45 AM comments: 0
Monday, April 11, 2022
From Akenfield
He is identified only as Davie, born in 1887, “who cannot read or write a word and who insists that he has nothing to say”:
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).
By Michael Leddy at 9:35 AM comments: 5
Some unusual “some rocks”
[Nancy, June 20, 1949. Click for a larger view.]
Today’s yesterday’s Nancy has some unusual “some rocks.”
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By Michael Leddy at 8:41 AM comments: 0
Sleep study
It was Rembrandt’s biography of Liszt that inspired the three then–surviving members of The Left Banke to conduct a sleep study. They sought volunteers in the tri–state area: New York, New Jersey, and Florida. They found four volunteers in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Elaine and I were walking toward a Wal-Mart when we saw an older woman from the music society leaving the store — well-dressed, perfect hair. It was obvious that she had not worn a mask while shopping. We swerved to the left to avoid her.
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[Talk about pre-cognitive dreaming: the bonkers governor of Alabama is more or less the woman I saw in my dream. I saw a photograph of the governor shortly after waking up this morning. And I must have listened to The Left Banke’s final album at least a dozen times in the last few weeks.]
By Michael Leddy at 8:35 AM comments: 2
Sunday, April 10, 2022
NBC, sheesh
“Price of eggs soar ahead of Easter:” a chyron, as seen on NBC Nightly News tonight. I have proof:
[Click for a larger mistake.]
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By Michael Leddy at 6:08 PM comments: 0