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  1. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Father and Son by James T. Farrell. Third volume of the Danny O'Neill pentalogy. Less well known than the Studs Lonigan trilogy, but more interesting in the sense that Danny is clearly meant to be Farrell himself, and it's a priceless resource in studying an author that was so influential to...
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    The general decline in standards today

    Marx is misunderstood by both his supporters and his critics. His view of religion as the opiate of the masses is a good example. Opiates were the miracle drug of the Nineteenth Century: they deadened excruciating pain and were essential during the surgical procedures of the time. Marx's comment...
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    The general decline in standards today

    It has to be the source of no small amount of anxiety to a lot of the Bible pounding types in the US and elsewhere that (whether you agree with them or not) Karl Marx and Charles Darwin are the two most influential writers of the Nineteenth Century, while Cyrus Scofield, Charles Spurgeon, and...
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    The general decline in standards today

    Interesting to see Frank Murphy in that role. He was one of the most idealistic Supreme Court justices of the 20th Century- even if no one will ever mistake him for a legal scholar. I'll always admire him for, among other things, his dissenting opinion in Korematsu v. United States: he stood...
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    A lot of what I like depends more upon the artist rather than the period in which it was written. I enjoy traditional Celtic (mainly Irish) music, but much of what was recorded 50 or 60 years ago wasn't really as well researched or developed as what some of the younger artists are recording...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Vintage trains

    End of the line, Silverton Colorado, taken July 2013.
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Alex DeLarge would love it.
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    To that add any commercial that claims, "....your friends at [insert name of store here]." Or, "...all of your favorite [whatever product category they're peddling here].. Damn it, they don't even know my name, but now they're my "friends" and they somehow know that my favorite anything is...
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    They're as likely to be Girls From Marketing in this day and age. Heck, when I was single I dated one or two of them, and that was decades ago. And sad to say, there are a few among our circle of family and friends who, MBA in hand, have decided to go that route.
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    Favorite Uniforms

    Yours truly as regimental surgeon, 104th Illinois Volunteers (Infantry).
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    Disneyland 1955

    Always wanted to go as a kid. Three families of relatives in southern California- any one of which would have been happy to house us- and my dad certainly earned enough for us to take the trip out on the Super Chief or the City of Los Angeles, or even drive out like the Griswolds. Could have...
  14. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I picked up the unwholesome habit of eating all of my meals in restaurants when I was in law school, late 70's -early 80's. Full load of classes, working full time, and nothing even remotely resembling a social life aside from an occasional movie with my buddies or going to church. I had no time...
  15. ChiTownScion

    I'd Always Wondered About the Similarities Between These Two...

    I was browsing Ewe-Tube for Little Lulu toons today. Like most classics, she's had several reincarnations, but the originals were the best. Honorable mention goes, however, to one of the series which was broadcast in Canada, and Lulu was voiced by none other than Tracy Ulmann. Between the...
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    I'd Always Wondered About the Similarities Between These Two...

    .... and so I did a little online research. Here's what I found, and if I am wrong, please correct me on this: Lulu (Moppet) was drawn originally by Marjorie Henderson Buell, and first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1935. She later made the transition to animated cartoons and...
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    CNN article: Some buyers want time capsule homes

    I enjoy the character of granite as well. Each section is unique and displays millions of years of geological history. The house was built in the 1970's so it really didn't anger any gods of preservation when we redid the kitchen. The vacation home is a more recent built structure: 2004. The...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I always refer to a father and son that I know (both named Peter, obviously) as "Pete" and "Re-Pete."
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One of my friends and colleagues is his nephew. Said MacMurray was not such a nice guy in real life, and that every story you've ever hear about his frugality was true.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Ben Sansum, The man who lives in 1946

    It's the labor intensive aspect of average household work that makes me not want to relive the good old days of Boe- Doe- Dee- Oh- Doe 24/7. My hats off to those who love that aspect of it, but I can't pretend that I'd enjoy working my arse off laundering, house cleaning, or cooking with quaint...
  22. ChiTownScion

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    And then there's this guy:
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    Old gas stations

    When I think of funny papers firemen, I think of this guy rather than Andy Gump. I do know that not far from here (Lake Geneva, WI) they have a statue of Andy Gump in the town's park.

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