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Ladies Choice

August 13th, 2006

GreenCine Daily notes that the notcoming.com feature on Chick Flicks is beautifully designed, and I’d have to agree. The writing’s good, too — essays on female-oriented films from the past 25 years, from Private Benjamin to Mean Girls.

The Jell-O Program

August 12th, 2006

Good entry from Christopher: Things Radio Taught Me. Vintage radio programs of all kinds get a lot of play here at Chez Scrubbles. He prefers Jack Benny and Fibber McGee & Molly; I’m fascinated with Suspense, the long-running weekly anthology which plopped a different current star into a hair-raising tale. Even Judy Garland did one.
Both […]

Highlights for Children (And Teens)

August 11th, 2006

Way gear: Ward has just started a new Flickr group called The Retro Teen, intended to showcase cool old illustrations made for the audience who grew too old for the stuff shown in the Retro Kid group. There’s also the Eye Candy from the trippy hippy ’60s and ’70s group, for those who prefer kiddie […]

Today’s Inspiration

August 10th, 2006

I’ve been busy busy busy on various design projects lately (can’t ya tell?), but now’s a good time to deliver a well-deserved plug for Leif Peng’s Today’s Inspiration weblog. I’ve long used old general-interest magazines from the ’50s and ’60s as neat visual resources. However, I still know very little about the hard working, prolific […]

Another Krazy Kartoon

August 7th, 2006

I love finding goodies from otherwise unnoteworthy old movies. Here’s The Hot Choc-Late Soldiers, an animated segment from MGM’s poky all-star comedy revue Hollywood Party (1934). Notable as one of the few things Walt Disney made for a competing studio, the cartoon was introduced by Mickey Mouse in a novel animated/live action scene (unfortunately that […]

Parking Lot Nostalgia?

August 6th, 2006

Group weblog Re-Imagineering neatly examines certain extinct things about Disneyland in a series of posts called Elemental Losses. Air focuses on the Skyway, removed in 1994 supposedly because of potential lawsuits from people “falling” out of the ride. Earth is on the parking lot (Disney’s California Adventure took over the acreage in 2001), or rather […]

Jack Carson: Boob for All Seasons

August 3rd, 2006

Coincidentally, the webmaster of this nice Jack Carson tribute site sent me a link the day after I watched one of his movies broadcast on TCM. Carson was one of the most underrated performers of the ’40s and ’50s. He excelled in portraying doofy yet appealing know-it-alls, jocular guys who settled into careers of seedy […]

Gruesome Twosome: Baroque’n Records Edition

August 2nd, 2006

The Cake: “Medieval Love”
LP: The Cake, 1967
The Left Banke: “Barterers and Their Wives”
LP: Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina, 1967
For reasons unknown, the mid ’60s rock music scene underwent a collective fascination with the old (or should I say “olde”). The precious sounds of harpsichords, violins and mandolins made certain artists sound like wandering troupes of Renaissance […]

13,148,719 Minutes

August 1st, 2006

My family didn’t get basic cable until Summer 1986. What it boiled down to was that I mostly missed out on the first five years of MTV. There was a lot of catching up to do. A ravenous teen interested in visual artistry, I would watch music videos wherever, whenever possible — mostly MTV, but […]

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