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What are you wearing today??
Brilliant. A living mewling pocket square! I love it.- Dr Doran
- Post #8,798
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Film Noir?
Thank you, Blackthorn. I recommend the Robert Fagles translation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus. It's available in an inexpensive Penguin paperback edition. It's excellent. For the other tragedies, you cannot go wrong with the Chicago University Press translations/editions. They are...- Dr Doran
- Post #42
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir?
One comparison that I have not seen enough of is the set of parallels between film noir and one of my other favorite, although far older, genres: namely, Greek tragedy of the fifth century BC. (I am a doctoral student in Greek and Roman history at Berkeley, so I study the stuff closely.) Both...- Dr Doran
- Post #40
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Vintage Sunglasses
I also have gotten very nice 1930s sunglasses from Germany through Ebay. It was an optical company and they shipped very fast too, and the frames were (like those you describe) a bit fragile and slightly small, but really OK. I love them.- Dr Doran
- Post #575
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Dinner Party Etiquette
"Oh, HIIII! You made it! It's SO nice to see you! You're the first here. Well, GREAT! Would you mind hitting the batrhroom counter with Ajax? get a little in the toilet too -- there's a scrub brush behind it"- Dr Doran
- Post #30
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Film Noir?
Loved the film ... loved the line ... loved the fact that the protagonist was an intellectual and not a grifter, drifter, or thug.- Dr Doran
- Post #35
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Vintage Sunglasses
They are very cool but not $1,500 cool. When all is said and done, they are 1930s tortoise shell sunglasses. I have 1930s sunglasses that cost 20 bucks that are also extremely cool. Translucent red frames, German. And ya know what? They are not 1/75 (1.3%) as cool. They are about 97% as cool...- Dr Doran
- Post #523
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Authenticity in the Vintage World?
I think there is some truth in this.- Dr Doran
- Post #106
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Beloved Comic Books--The Uncanny X-Men
The thing that was brilliant and horrifying about this comic is visible in this very page, the last panel: note the beauty of the girl's physical form as visible through the thin dress. Throughout the comic (and the filmed version) the attractiveness of her form is emphasized. This contrasts...- Dr Doran
- Post #50
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Beloved Comic Books--The Uncanny X-Men
Nathan, where did you find this cover? Online? Where? This comic is so good that if the whole thing is posted online, you should put up a link for everyone to read.- Dr Doran
- Post #49
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Beloved Comic Books--The Uncanny X-Men
Feltfan , do you own it? Did you find it online? Where? Please!- Dr Doran
- Post #47
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Beloved Comic Books--The Uncanny X-Men
Unknown Soldier I do recall a superb issue of Unknown Soldier (for the uninitiated, he was a WW2 soldier who had lost his face, and so wore masks all the time: thus he was able to impersonate different people and do clandestine work: pretty cool) called something like "8,000 to 1" in which to...- Dr Doran
- Post #45
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Authenticity in the Vintage World?
You know my horror of "slob-snobbery"!- Dr Doran
- Post #92
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Authenticity in the Vintage World?
There can be useful elements to snobbery, I agree.- Dr Doran
- Post #90
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Beloved Comic Books--The Uncanny X-Men
I also thought X-Men of the Clairmont/Byrne/Orzechowski (don't forget the letterer!) run was the best super-hero comic. The young romance between Kitty and Colossus tore me. I did hate the repetitive storyline wherein a mutant is found on the mutant sensor, the X-Men fly out in the Blackbird...- Dr Doran
- Post #42
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Johnny Depp influence: Wisconsin bankers want no hats
Notes to self: 1.) Check deposit slips to see if idiot has written threat on back as joke. 2.) Find and kill idiot.
