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  1. Fletch

    Your Five Favorite Woody Allen Movies--and Why

    All right, great, but at the same time, Allen could be said to "claim" the music on his soundtracks as a kind of cultural property. In a way, he restamps it with a certain authenticity of place and context as well as time, as something that might even rightfully "belong" to his kind of folks: a...
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    How do loungers deal with extreme cold weather?

    Yes, it's incredible how people have willfully forgotten the insulating powers of shearling. Almost as if it...went out of style, or something.
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    Most attractive 30's - 40's movie star (dolls for the guys, guys for the dolls)

    This'll make you laugh...in my mom's mostly Italian family Don (who was Italian himself) was known as "Donameech" - all one name.
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    What are you listening to?

    "Boooorkin in de rain...dumde humde doomde dooo..." lol
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    What are you listening to?

    and the flops just keep on coming It probably took a crazy Russian conductor to get a record company to put out a platter of a swing symphony orchestra in 1936. It's actually better than a lot of what Paul Whiteman was putting on wax at the time. Probably because Paul had many publics to...
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    I remember when.....

    I remember New York when you HAD to use 'em, even tho they were always nasty and frequently busted. And phishing people's phone card numbers with binoculars and a notepad was a cottage industry. I once just for the hell of it answered a ringing pay phone in the subway. "Columbus Circle Subway...
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    I remember when.....

    Who was it said cars from that era "looked like bank presidents' desks"? At the very least they looked like furniture. Or houses. It would be interesting to think about the design philosophy that brought that look into being.
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    I remember when.....

    I always wanted to give RCA the benefit of the doubt with new tech. In 1931 it was Program Transcriptions - I said bring 'em on. In '39, hulking kinescope televisions - I said why not. In '49, 45rpm singles - suuure. But this? KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!1 I do however have a soft spot in my...
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    FS New Spearhead Militaria A2 Seal Brown Horse Hide sz 46

    Try the polish, or even an acrylic paint if you match the color carefully. Failing that, you have what we call a "patcher." You could even practice nose art should you desire.
  11. Fletch

    1924 hershey bar wrapper

    So that was a big, thin bar.
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    1924 hershey bar wrapper

    How big is that wrapper?
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    My first Borsalino, and it was free!

    Yeah, just noticed this was de-zombified.
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    My first Borsalino, and it was free!

    My first Borso was free too - I inherited it from a family friend who'd died. It's a tan Alessandria, currently awaiting renovation. I'm going to have the sweat monogrammed with his initials - that much of him, at least, will live on.
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    Summery Hats and Stuff to Sell

    Sending PM re the Peters...
  17. Fletch

    How popular is the fedora in 2011? Are hats seeing a resurgance finally?

    Very possibly. So will less hair. It's all good...ok, mostly good.
  19. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    a picture in words and music... A brisk spring Sunday in 1933 at the Edgewater Beach Hotel along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. And look at those swell new Oldsmobiles out front - Six or Eight - they move with all the style and spirit of Mark Fisher's Band, the one everybody's come to dance to...
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    NYT piece: Hat-wearing minority gets no respect!

    Not to get OT, but there are days I wish I could have baccalà with the morning paper...
  21. Fletch

    NYT piece: Hat-wearing minority gets no respect!

    Of course Texans are very aware of anything that is obviously un-Texan. Never mind if the hat was once worn everywhere but Texas, it's like that sauce from Noo Yauk City?! lol
  22. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Listening to Danny was a lesson in time and place. His show was as much about shoutouts to the old neighborhoods, the Newark, Jersey City, Brooklyn, and Bronx diasporas, as about the music he played. Every song or 2 he'd dedicate to someone or drop in a casual mention of some restaurant or...
  23. Fletch

    Man commits to 40 days of beer for Lent

    You know what they say - beer isn't sold, it's lent. lol

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