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Daily Diversion #70: A Life of Lumpy Leisure
When I’m not writing or reading, I’m taking snaps of the boys. Crosley and Duncan are truly my wet-nosed, slobbering, warm-eared Daily Diversions. Cros shows up on the blog more frequently because he spends most of his day sleeping on various lumpy things, his head on a pillow. It hasn’t been tested but I’m confident that Duncan has enough energy to power, at the very least, a four slice toaster. He doesn’t sit still for more than a few seconds. Today’s diversion features you-know-who, doing you-know-what. Imagine that.
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”-Groucho Marx
Inspiration Board: Everything Old is New Again
What follows is a mad cyclone of some of the oddly delectable bits and bobs setting my head and heart on fire this early November, vintage-style.
Maude Abrantes by Amedeo Modigliani, 1907
US Suffrage Map, 1920
Leatrice Joy
Joe Strummer. Always Joe Strummer.
Kiki de Montparnasse by Gustaw Gwozdecki, 1920
Louise Brooks, 1930
Opel Catalog, 1904
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868
Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
Mabel Normand, 1917
Cover of The Yellow Book by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894
William Butler Yeats, 1908
Solita Solano and Djuna Barnes in Paris, 1922. Look familiar?
Norma Talmadge on the cover of Photoplay, December 1929
Clyde Fitch’s Greatest Comedy, Girls
Voices from the Grave #45: John Masefield Reading ‘The West Wind’
This animation is a bit, shall we say, weird. I like it, but then no one has ever called me normal. I’m including it here because it features audio of John Masefield reading his poem, The West Wind.
A Year in Books/Day 218: Max Factor’s Hollywood Glamour
- Title: Max Factor’s Hollywood Glamour
- Author: Fred E. Basten (with Robert Salvatore & Paul A. Kaufman)
- Year Published: 1995 (W. Quay Hays)
- Year Purchased: 2003/2004
- Source: Barnes & Noble clearance rack
- About: Max Factor isn’t just a name on wands of mascara and tubes of lipstick found in the beauty aisle at your local grocery store. The Max Factor cosmetics line wasn’t invented and branded by impersonal, slick-suited admen in a glossy boardroom. He was a pioneer who not only shaped and defined the aesthetics of classic cinema (from glamour girls to tough guys and everything in between) but he brought make-up to the masses in a way that was, and is, distinctly modern. His genius for invention and marketing, as well as his humble beginnings in Central Europe, make his story a neat parallel to those of the movie moguls who were his contemporaries. Continue reading
[Book Nerd News] A Few Bookish Links for You to Click on and Read at Your Leisure
- In Proust’s Library (the Paris Review)
- Beatrix Potter and Her Rabbits (Retronaut)
- Another Bridget Jones Novel is in the Works (Flavorwire)
- Philip Roth Quits Writing (Huff Post Books)
Shopping for the Bookworm: Robert Louis Stevenson Edition
Grab your favourite beverage, sit back, and enjoy looking at these Robert Louis Stevenson themed goods!
Robert Louis Stevenson Quote-Letterpress Art Print by tag team tompkins-$8.00
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson at 4Get-Me-Not Treasures-$18.00 Continue reading
The Dead Writers Round-Up: 10th-13th November
- Oliver Goldsmith was born on 11/10/1730. “Where wealth accumulates, men decay.” (The Vicar of Wakefield; The Deserted Village; She Stoops to Conquer)
- Friedrich Schiller was born on 11/10/1759. “Will it, and set to work briskly.” (Ode to Joy; The Robbers; The Maid of Orleans) Continue reading
I Feel the Earth Move/Little Earthquakes
Too obvious, right? We experienced an earthquake early this afternoon. Registering at 4.3, it was felt in such faraway places as Georgia and North Carolina. This is where my mind went.
Right after it went here.
Daily Diversion #69: And Then There Was One
Look! It has nothing to do with wine…
North Carolina. One more for the road.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 