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  1. Fletch

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    About what exactly?
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    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    An early classic of swing music is Duke Ellington's It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), first recorded by his Famous Orchestra in 1932. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FvsgGp8rSE Especially interesting to us musicians - and perhaps to musically oriented Loungers - is the...
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    Loungers' Pets

    Beautiful kitty. Our kitty is home for the weekend, skinny, and keeping to herself under chairs. Still no results on that bone marrow, but she's severely anemic and her white count stratospheric - not great, whatever else happens.
  4. Fletch

    Hitler and the Exploding Candybars...

    A 7 second delay? Wouldn't anyone with functioning war nerves have seen the trigger, dropped the device and run like hell in about 5? Awfully sporting, these Jerries...
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    What are you listening to?

    Common thread: both of the last 2 sides include Artie Shaw, tho he isn't featured. This next one will remedy that. (He wasn't yet the King of the Clarinet, but he does good.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDUhTGXjEuk
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    Does vintage make you look.... *older*?

    You don't anymore. Just to afford it.
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    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Ghost Pines '08 Cabernet. 65% Napa, 35% Sonoma. Nicely tannic for a California cab. Dad didn't like it; he likes them more to type.
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    A Cultural Wrinkle

    Any shirt is non-iron if you don't iron it. Being a preppy in the Official Preppy Handbook era, I learned from my school buds to pull my shirt out of the dryer early and let it hang up. It comes down to whether you have the shiny-pants attitude or not - is life one long job interview or is it...
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    Show us their suits

    Suede shoes actually weren't a big favorite in the pre-war years. They were widely believed to be a gay code, so many men avoided them.
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    What are you listening to?

    More typical of the era is this Roger Wolfe Kahn side. For something from 80 summers past the fidelity of recording is almost unreal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwe9XhidQz8
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    What are you listening to?

    For those who haven't heard it, it swings lightly, lightly and po-litely. Red Allen sings and trumpets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fod-ZQk2W6s
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    Loungers' Pets

    The mass tested benign, so she may just have acute pancreatitis, common in elderly cats and curable with a few days' treatment. The bone marrow is being tested for cancer. If it's there, we'll let her go.
  15. Fletch

    Apparel Arts v1.2 Spring 1932

    Gleneagles ad in post 8 What was the difference, in 1932, between trousers and slacks? (And please don't say "25 cents." ;))
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    Apparel Arts v1.2 Spring 1932

    An American publication could be forgiven the association - M wasn't shown in the U.S. till 1933, when The New York Times reviewed it.
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    Bad repro looks

    You know, even today, many people read period styles as bad taste. Such an attitude was probably near universal in earlier eras. Today's movies often show the extras looking more period than the stars, probably because the extras won't complain.
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    Is anj-3 jacket supposed to have epaulets?

    If you think of it as an Army front with a Navy back, the design makes sense.
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    Loungers' Pets

    After 4 years plus surviving cancer it looks as tho Kitty Foyle is letting us know it's time. Has taken little food, only water, in 48 hours. Ultrasound showed her one good kidney greatly enlarged. Awaiting more results but the folks and I are preparing.
  21. Fletch

    Bill Murray as FDR-‘Hyde Park on the Hudson’

    Looks really appealing. Murray and Linney can do no wrong in my eyes, tho, so I'll love it even if no one else does. Hope FDR shows the Windsors his TV set. That would break a few modern people's brains.
  22. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    If It Ain't Love - Chick Webb & Orch., 1934, vocal- Charles Linton. A 1932 hit, here briefly revived. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCW_S_gNppY&feature=relmfu And I Still Do! - Ina Ray Hutton & Her Melodears, 1934, vocal- Ruth Bradley, also the band's lead saxist...
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    What are you listening to?

    Belated Father's Day wishes...of a sort. My Old Man, Sam Robbins & Hotel McAlpin Orch., 1933. How did anyone in that hotel get any sleep with such a hot mess going on? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewQ991z9r4

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