[Barry Fitzgerald for Lipton Tea. Life, October 7, 1946. Click for a larger view.]
I found this advertisement while finding something else. Too bad Barry Fitzgerald didn’t endorse Barry’s Tea. (In 1946, it wasn’t available in the States.)
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Friday, April 15, 2022
Barry’s tea
By Michael Leddy at 8:48 AM comments: 0
Thursday, April 14, 2022
“Caught in the old ways”
Christopher Falconer, thirty-nine, gardener:
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).
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Davie’s hand : Rubbish : “Just ‘music’”
[Mr. Falconer seems like a candidate for the Village Green Preservation Society.]
By Michael Leddy at 9:06 AM comments: 0
Genius
Buy large amount of stock. Refuse board seat. Express lack of confidence about management. (If management is so lousy, whydja buy so much stock?) Offer to buy company. Threaten to sell stock if offer is not accepted, thus tanking stock.
Man, that Elon Musk must be a genius. Who could ever have seen through these tactics?
[Context: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter.]
By Michael Leddy at 8:58 AM comments: 3
Min
Min for macOS: “a fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.” So minimal that even its name is minimal. Too minimal to serve as a default browser, I think, but excellent for getting a few things done quickly.
By Michael Leddy at 8:50 AM comments: 0
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Recently updated
Outtakes (9) A reader sussed out the identity of a mysterious store appearing in two NYC tax photographs.
By Michael Leddy at 8:44 PM comments: 0
“Just ‘music’”
David Collyer, twenty-nine, forester and Labour Party organizer:
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).
Also from Akenfield
Davie’s hand : Rubbish
By Michael Leddy at 9:12 AM comments: 0
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