You’ll learn to love it when a lady in a flimsy nightie instructs you.
Jimmy Rowles Sextet, Let’s Get Acquainted With Jazz. Via.
March 18th, 2012
“And Some Sort Of A Hat” Explained
Choosing a hat is more about how you feel than how it looks, says luxury milliner Mich Dulce. Now we know why there are so many sorts of hats; but we don’t know why Morris Albert didn’t sport dozens of hats…
February 29th, 2012
It Never Hurts To Ask Early
Having started back as a columnist at Collectors Quest, I’m still struggling to find the time balancing all my blogs (Inherited Values, Kitsch Slapped, among others), which means that planning is on my mind. So, upon spotting this gem, I hardly could argue with the idea of starting my wishlist early.
All I Want For Christmas Is A Go-Go Girl, by Ben Hinds.
Enjoy more go-go madness here.
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February 15th, 2012
Is Your Toddler One With The Rhythm Nation?
Gilt Members who wish to dress their kids like little members of Janet’s Rhythm Nation can now do so less expensively. This military jacket from Beetlejuice (the kids clothing label, not the film) is available in sizes 2T though girls 8. Alternately, parents of Devil Babies, as seen in last night’s Cougar Town, might also find this jacket useful — as prep for a straight jacket, or an actual military school. Which means maybe there’s more of a connection to Beetlejuice the movie than previously thought.
Regularly $103; Gilt member price, just $43. (While supplies last; sale ends in three days and some odd hours.)
January 21st, 2012
Rock The Retro Red
The Crosley Spinnerette USB Turntable
January 17th, 2012
The Beginnings Of The Alligator Woman
Cameo’s Alligator Woman had to start somewhere…
Via Mothic Flights & Flutterings:
Toddler with a group of reptilian friends at The Luna Park Alligator Farm in Lincoln Heights, California – c. 1920s
January 10th, 2012
Wanna Be Starting Something
You’re A Vegetable, You’re A Vegetable
Still They Hate You, You’re A Vegetable
You’re Just A Buffet, You’re A Vegetable
They Eat Off Of You, You’re A Vegetable
Wanna Be Starting Something lyrics, by Michael Jackson.
Cat photo via.
December 2nd, 2011
Christmas In Hollywood Homes (1946)
From the pages of Modern Woman magazine, volume 15 number 7, 1946, two pages of vintage movie star holiday Q & A. Specifically the famous Hollywood folks were asked to name:
1) Favorite Christmas Story
2) Favorite Christmas Song
3) When Gifts Are Opened
4) Best-Remembered Gift
The celebrities included are, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Ray Milland, Betty Hutton, Jack Carson, Alan Ladd, Joan Caulfield, Peggy Ann Garner, Lon McCallister, Lynn Bari, Peggy Cummins, Victure Mature, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Robert Hutton, Martha Vickers, and Bette Davis.
As to be expected, I suppose, the most named Christmas story was Christmas Carol. My favorite was Jack Carson’s answer:
A story translated from Norwegian — doesn’t remember the name.
Maybe it was a translation of the Norwegian translation of A Christmas Carol.
My favorite answers were the ones naming their best-remembered gift.
Van Johnson’s:
His first fan, a mid-western Scandinavian grandmother, sent him a pair of Arguyle socks she herself knit. Because of his grateful thanks, she has kept his supplied with socks ever since.
Lucille Ball’s:
About ten years ago she was seriously injured — paralyzed — in an automobile accident. At Christmas everyone gave her gifts for an invalid — except her mother. Mother Ball gave her a new bicycle, and with it the assurance that she would walk again.
Jack Carson’s:
A puppy, part collie and part German shepherd. He was eight years old and living in Milwaukee. “I’ve never had a gift that thrilled me more.”
For what it’s worth, Bette Davis had “no specially-remembered gift.” Neither did Victor Mature — however, he was “emphatic about what he wants this Christmas; a new house! Victor, like thousands of other Americans, is desperate for a home.”
The whole this is as post-war American as pie.
The photo used on the first page is of Margaret O’Brien and “Butch” Jenkins who appeared together in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, discussing “the possibility of Santa getting down the Jenkins chimney.”
Jane Powell, Roddy MacDowell, George Murphy (and son Denny with train set), and Diana Lynn appear in photos on the second page.
December 1st, 2011
Dominick the Christmas Pinata
I guess some folks just want to hit Dominick the Christmas Donkey. So incredibly sad. Via.
