Trio of Thingies
In the absence of anything long and boring today, I submit three little tidbits:
- No awards season is complete without entering the Web-Goddess Oscar Contest to win a pair of rainbow hued “Brokeback (sock) Monkeys”. Kris rocks!
- Terry just sent along a reminder that the annual pledge drive for WFMU is going on right now. Stop by, take a listen to some of that Freeform Radio goodness, and if you have some extra cash on hand pass it their way.
- I’m loving these 1964 New York Worlds Fair postcards assembled by the spiffily redesigned Eye of the Goof. What to do? I’d wanna ride the GM Futurama exhibit and It’s A Small World back when it was new, then sample the delicious waffles at the Belgian pavilion (believe it or not, that’s what most visitors best remembered).
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Wow. You brought back some memories about the 1964 World's Fair. I was in Junior High. My mom and I went on a bus trip from PA.
The places I remember are the Florida pavilion with genuine Seminole Indians and their wonderful strip-pieced patchwork, seeing the Pieta (can you believe they shipped it to NY?), and of course going through It's a Small World. It was a Pepsi pavilion and while we were waiting in line, my mother absent-mindedly went up to a vendor there and asked for a Coca Cola. We laughed at that because the place was plastered with Pepsi signs. The animated displays were way too cutesy and THAT SONG... argh.
The Spanish pavilion rocked.
I have a charm on my charm bracelet from the World's Fair. :)
Posted by: Jan | March 4, 2006 04:31 PM