THE CONTINENT BY MOTOR CAR, ACCORDING TO WALKERLEY PART 2
RODNEY WALKERLEY ENJOYED being an Englishman traveling in post-war Europe. We continue here in Part 2 with his cogent commentary gleaned from Motoring Abroad, accompanied by Brockbank’s witty illustrations. There’s … Continue reading
THE CONTINENT BY MOTOR CAR, ACCORDING TO WALKERLEY PART 1
“THE CONTINENT,” OF COURSE, refers to that place isolated when the English Channel has a significant storm. And Rodney Walkerley was “Athos” of The Motor magazine and author of Motoring … Continue reading
HOW TO BECOME EXTINCT
THE FASCINATING BOOK EXTINCT, recently reviewed here at SimanaitisSays, describes six different categories of extinction: Failed, Superseded, Enforced, Defunct, Aestivated, and Visionary. Here are tidbits about these criteria and examples … Continue reading
SLEUTHING WOMEN
A RECENT UNEARTHING of the book Detectionary yields tidbits on the fair sex in mystery fiction. There’s also an interesting bibliographic tale of the book itself. Back by Popular Demand. … Continue reading
ARTISTS AND THE BALLET
BALLET TYPICALLY CALLS FOR a backdrop of sorts, but not otherwise a great deal of scenery. Nor are its costumes typically elaborate, what with the athletic requirements of dance. Yet … Continue reading
FERRARI 212 EXPORT BARCHETTA—A CAR WITH REAL LEGS PART 2
THIS PARTICULAR FERRARI seems to hold a record for the most consecutive appearances in Road and Track: July 1952 through a full road test in November of that year. Here … Continue reading
FERRARI 212 EXPORT BARCHETTA—A CAR WITH REAL LEGS PART 1
TALK ABOUT LEGS! I believe I’ve identified the car having the most consecutive appearances in a single year of Road and Track: The year was 1952 and the car was … Continue reading
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we discussed the obsolescence of arsenic wallpaper and the Chaparral 2J Sucker Car, both appearing in the book Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects. Today in … Continue reading
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN PART 1
DOES YOUR HOUSE EXHIBIT obsolescence? Mine does, sorta, as described in a book I just bought. Penner is a professor of architectural humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University … Continue reading
BBC TAKE 2
HERE’S YET MORE on BBC’s hundredth anniversary. Indeed, back in mid-April, I gleaned tidbits from Sam Knight’s piece in The New Yorker. Here in Take 2, I so enjoy Stefan … Continue reading
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