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  1. tonyb

    Our Designer Dog

    ^^^^^ A fine-lookin’ mutt.
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    Uncool, dorky things you won't be caught dead in

    There are people who look good in just about anything. And then there are the rest of us.
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    Roger Miller was born on this date in 1936. He’s been gone since 1992. Jukebox title strips can still be had cheap. Get ’em while you can.
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    California fur ban

    Thank you
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    California fur ban

    If this matter had already been covered here (a quick search came up empty), please steer me to it. Does the California law that came into effect today, banning the sale of new animal fur products, extend to fur felt hats?
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    Uncool, dorky things you won't be caught dead in

    Absolutely. I like much of that stuff myself. But it is no less a fashion statement for many who wear it than is the “distressed” denim favored by many a young woman these days.
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    Uncool, dorky things you won't be caught dead in

    In other threads in this and other FL forums are discussions of people letting their clothes wear them, rather than the other way around. Several years ago a young man who has long since departed our company here professed a desire to wear a coat and tie to his school sessions. He posted photos...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    … it’s 7:44 on a Friday night during the holiday season and after a modest dinner you ask yourself if it’s really too early to turn in for the night.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Does anyone besides me get the sense that a fellow who used to regularly post here but went away entirely a few months ago has returned under another name?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Oh, and H.L. Mencken was quoted as saying something to the effect of not caring how many radio fans there would be after he’s dead and gone.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I was among the many friends of the late Phil Harper (I wrote a little feature on him once, which is how we met), the voice of Harry Nile, private eye, who was also heard up and down the dial at Top-40 stations here and there throughout the West but mostly in Seattle and Portland going back to...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    If I were in the radio biz, I’d take a serious look at other enterprises. It’s a mistake to project one’s own experience onto the larger public, but there’s more than anecdotes to suggest that listening habits are changing in ways unfavorable to radio as we’ve known it. Most of us have...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you are getting old when … … you hear on a year-end news wrap-up that a pop music star named Taylor Swift at one point during the year held all 10 positions on Billboard’s Top 10 roster, and you have no familiarity with any of her songs. I know what she looks like; that much is...
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    Literature that transports you to the Golden Era

    I recently reread a holiday favorite, Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,” a semi-autobiographical account of a Christmas season when Capote was seven years old. Capote was born in 1924, so his short story is set in 1931. He wrote it in 1956, so he was looking back 25 years. It’s a lovely...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, old textbooks typically get updated every year or three, which cuts the legs out from under the used book market, which of course results in increased sales for the latest edition. The new and improved version is often just a rearrangement of the last one, with maybe a bit of updating here...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hey you, Mr. or Ms. online seller! Charging a buyer for Priority Mail shipping is all fine and good, I suppose, but waiting several days before getting the items shipped kinda misses the point, don’t it?
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    Chronic Illness

    ^^^^^^ Bite your tongue, Tony.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Chances are excellent that my dewy-eyed bride, 18 years my junior, will survive me, as will at least one of my book-peddler friends. Among my hoard are a few volumes that might bring enough scratch to get one’s attention, but only a few. As with most of my earthly possessions, the whole...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In this morning’s feed from the Washington Post is a piece titled “We’re Drowning in Old Books. But Getting Rid of Them is Heartbreaking.” It doesn’t cover any territory we haven’t been over already, but it is a sign that countless others are dealing with this “problem“ which isn’t much of a...
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    Vintage apple crate label: 50 cents Frame: Somewhat more than that.

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