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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And here I thought it was named for my friend’s cat.
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    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    I’ve dined in Ethiopian restaurants on many occasions (wash your hands first). It’s among my most favored fare. But I have yet to experience the “coffee and its rituals” offered at some such establishments, such as the one a mile or so from my former home in Southeast Seattle. My...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don’t you just love our native tongue? An essay can be grammatically correct (more or less) and still be all but indecipherable on first reading, or second, or third …
  4. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Fears of nuclear war. I’m not losing sleep over it just yet, but the saber rattling hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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    Show off your Ebay finds and purchases

    A friend gave me a stack of vintage sheet music some time back. I put a couple of them in cheap frames from Michael’s. They’re now hanging in my short-term rental unit.
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    My Vintage Radio Collection

    The Expo itself was mostly 40- through 60-year-old stereo components — turntables, tuners, amps, a few booths with electric guitars and amplifiers. But, as I mentioned above, there were a few old (like 1930s thru ’50s vintage) radios, priced in the 25 to 65 dollar range. But with the exception...
  8. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    As it turns out, coinciding with today’s Vintage Voltage Expo was the annual Colorado Radio Collectors’ Antique Radio Annual Show. I got more out of that than the vendor booths. At least a hundred well restored old radios were on display on tables (“Display Radios, Do Not Touch”) outside the...
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    Lucy and Desi's Mid Century mansion in Palm Springs

    Julius Shulman photos. “Visual Acoustics,” the documentary film about him, is worth your while. Shulman died in 2009, at age 98. His work is a chronicle of the growth of Southern California and modernist architecture.
  10. tonyb

    Longtime member Dan Hermann (DHermann1) has passed.

    I knew Dan only online, and am now faced with the sad knowledge that I’ll never meet him in person, not on this mortal plane, anyway. We had numerous exchanges on another online platform in recent months. He was unfailingly worth reading. He was funny, humble, and kind. My life has been the...
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I need specific tasks with hard deadlines facing me lest I fritter away my life. It needn’t be work (meaning money-making activity), necessarily, but it can’t be “make work,” either. My lovely missus is expert at pointing out tasks requiring my attention.
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    Dan Hermann

    I have it on good authority that Dan Hermann shuffled off, suddenly and unexpectedly, while vacationing in England. We never met in the “real world,” but stayed in fairly regular contact online. I liked him quite well, as did many others. He’ll be missed.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Decades ago some person whose name I have since forgotten told me that washing spent coffee grounds down the drain with lotsa hot water helped keep the drains free of grease buildup. The reasoning was that the hot water dissolved the grease, which got carried by the coffee grounds through...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Several neighbors on this built-in-1977 subdivision have replaced sewer lines in recent years. The pipes are cast iron under the houses but clay from the front yards out to the city main. Tree root intrusions and separating pipe sections are the most common problems. My concern for ours...
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    “Golden Era” modernists

    ^^^^^ And then the backlash. Note what the Nazis called “degenerate art,” and how the top Nazi himself, once an aspiring painter, was anti-modernism. It’s little wonder the Bauhaus couldn’t survive under that regime.
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    “Golden Era” modernists

    It was brought to my attention that Piet Mondrian, he of the primary colors and block forms and rigid right angles, was born on this date, March 7, in 1872. He died in New York City in 1944. His early work was much more figurative — paintings depicting windmills in his native land, bucolic...
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    Old Department Stores

    ^^^^^^ And now the suburban malls are suffering. Dying, even, some of them. I hit Penney’s maybe twice a year, to buy a couple three or four shirts and maybe a pair of jeans or two. Target gets a few bucks out of me on occasion. But I’ve been increasingly buying online, often with the evil...
  20. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    The beauty of those metal mesh drip filters is, of course, that you don’t run out of paper filters. I discovered on moving to Seattle in 1968 a brand called MJB. “There’s Only Enough for the West,” was the advertising slogan. And it truly was superior to the other canned coffee, which was...
  21. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    My Dear Old Ma gradually weaned the Old Man off the cream and sugar. When they first met, she tells me, his coffee was mostly dairy product (cream or half-and-half) and sugar. I’ve taken mine black pretty much from the git. In more recent decades I’ve generally preferred it on ice.
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    My Vintage Radio Collection

    The Vintage Voltage Expo returns to Denver March 20. I’ve never attended, so I can’t say that it’s worth going out of one’s way for, but I may check it out. Five bucks to get in. It’s a safe enough bet that it would be at least five dollars worth of education. It’s not “Golden Era,” but my c...
  23. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    Chicory, maybe? I’ve had coffee/chicory blend a time or three. Palatable, as I recall, but I wouldn’t seek it out again.

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