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  1. ThesFlishThngs

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    We've been enjoying Doc Martin via Netflix.
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Ha, yes. She's new here but fitting in nicely, having appointed herself overseer of my desk. ;)
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Yesterday I picked up this cute little square purse at a vintage fair, for $10. Inside were a small, loose mirror, and a pair of S&H Green Stamps of a design older than the 50s-70s style I remember as a child. The only mark is a faint emboss on the interior leather, that shows a snail-like...
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    Some thoughts about vintage vs modern style

    Of course, back in the day clothes were not designed to be billboards for manufacturers either. Other than maybe a university sweatshirt (worn only by a university student), one didn't go about with bold emblazoned messages on ones garments. It always strikes me as odd that filmmakers who...
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    The general decline in standards today

    Show people a 40-second youtube clip and they suddenly feel qualified to act as judge and jury....
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    How do you stay inspired during uninspiring times?

    ^^^ That's one reason our decision to cancel the cable came so easily. I began flicking through the channels I enjoyed several years ago, and, other than TCM, I realized they had all become parodies of themselves. I have no interest in conveniently set-up episodes of pawn shop treasures...
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    How do you stay inspired during uninspiring times?

    Don't expect it to any time soon; everything's about the bottom dollar, and without having to pay writers and actors, 'reality' programs are a great deal cheaper to produce. It baffles me how the viewing public can continue to be interested in these contrived shows featuring a cast of 'everyday...
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    How do you stay inspired during uninspiring times?

    Lots of practice at learning to tune out the obnoxious nonsense the modern world (media mostly, of course) continually hurls at us. We ditched cable so now have many fewer channels of drivel to wade through. Only one tv in the house means when we do watch, it's a conscious joint event. I...
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I stopped at a neighborhood estate sale Sunday, just for a peek, and came away with this glasses case & two printed lens cloths. Also, this lovely silk robe. $1 each.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just finishing "De Lovely", which I've not seen in a few years. I'd forgotten how poignant it is, especially with snippets of the Murphy's story woven through the narrative. Now I feel the need to don a 20s frock & go have drinks with beautiful people. After I powder my red nose.
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    Pajamajeans. The end of fashion

    I'm trying to imagine any occasion for which jeans are "not casual enough" other than sleeping.
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    The general decline in standards today

    I know. Silly, silly idealistic me. I might as well go to Paris and wait around for that midnight taxi.... ;)
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    The general decline in standards today

    My ideal would be this - see, hear, or read a story, and come away knowing the basic, pertinent facts, and having no idea (or interest) which way the reported leans.
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    Today's Pinup Fashion a Sly Wink to the Past - New York Times

    I face paint at children's parties, and the saddest/most annoying aspect I encounter is the vulgar trendy club music that's played. 5,6,7 year old girls dressed like twenty-something club hoppers and singing along because they know the words to all the songs.
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    The lost art of dressing for the occasion

    I don't even like going to the bank & seeing the young staff dressed in jeans and polos. What happened to mature bank ladies in sweaters, skirts, and blouses?
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    How to sew a classic rockabilly dress

    Makes me think I ought to get my sewing machine fixed.
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    Family Lore: Pride in Our Predecessors

    What a clever announcement. ;) I don't have any visuals at the moment, and only ghosts of the best tales, as my upstanding, church-going grandparents didn't like to expound upon things they weren't proud of. But I have heard that during the Depression, my dad's uncles robbed the bank of...
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    Stepping back in to the 40's in public I need your help please!

    That's a lovely hat, and not funny at all. I know what you mean though, about feeling funny in them, and I think it has to do with context. We're so used to seeing hats on period women with fully-done hair - every end perfectly curled out of sight and all that. At least that's why I feel...
  22. ThesFlishThngs

    Subverting Technology -- Golden Era style

    The best I can offer is this genuine rotary telephone, still with the Mission exchange # on the paper tag, from my grandmother's house, atop the gossip bench my dad sat upon whilst making calls in the 40s and 50s. Our printer/fax machine and computer router are wired through this phone. (Oh...
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    Who Here Has Switched To the 'No-Poo' Method??

    I quit using shampoo a couple weeks ago, and so far have no complaints. My short hair seems to retain a bit more of its natural wave (although that could well be partly due to increased humidity as summer bears down), and doesn't feel dirty or greasy in the least. I get the idea that many 'no...

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