ARCHITECTURE WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR
ROADSIDE VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE is architecture with a sense of humor, as described in the book California Crazy. Actually, my edition of this book is the original California Crazy, published in … Continue reading
NOSTALGIA AIN’T WHAT IT USTA BE
WARM COZY NORMAN-ROCKWELLESQUE images used to be ubiquitous in advertising. And, indeed, it’s fun to look back at them. Whitney Matheson discusses “that picture-perfect, economically ripe period between World War … Continue reading
THE MANGA PRESENCE OF CARLOS GHOSN PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE OBSERVED the rise and fall of automotive executive Carlos Ghosn. Today his earlier appearances in Japanese Manga comics give me recollection of my meager 日本語 as well as … Continue reading
THE MANGA PRESENCE OF CARLOS GHOSN PART 1
ODD THINGS GET uncovered in decluttering. How about Japanese Manga comics featuring Le Cost Killer, Mr. Fix It, and 2002 Asia Businessman of the Year, now known as Interpol fugitive … Continue reading
BOSSA NOVA—A MUSICAL UTOPIA
FRANK SINATRA WAS introducing “The Girl from Ipanema” on the SiriusXM channel appropriately called “Siriusly Sinatra.” He said his accompanist would be Antônio Carlos Jobim, the guy who invented bossa … Continue reading
SHELDON LEONARD: “HI’YA, BUD. C’MERE….”
I WAS WATCHING BOGART and Bacall in To Have and Have Not; not for the first time, I note. This time around, though, I recognized another cast name. His face … Continue reading
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH—COMEDIC BARISTA
GLORIOUS BACH. OF COURSE. Majestic Bach. Sure. But comedic Bach?? And a purveyor of coffee?? Yes, as confirmed by his Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, aka Kaffeekantate. Wikipedia describes … Continue reading
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM WEEK 2022
I SUSPECT MY mathematician’s appreciation of rectilinearity attracts me to Midcentury Modern. SimanaitisSays has already celebrated this architectural genre in “California Cool” and “Postwar Architecture: Specialists’ Views. Now from February … Continue reading
JOHN W. BURGESS—MUSEUM CURATOR/ARTIST/DIRT TRACK RACER
JOHN BURGESS KNEW AUTOMOBILES extremely well and also admired the American West. I have proof positive of this through his artwork and through knowing him as director/curator of Briggs Cunningham’s … Continue reading
CATS IN ART
SUSAN HERBERT STUDIED at the Ruskin School of Art. She worked and painted for the English National Opera and, more recently, has turned to prints of theatrical animals. Like me, … Continue reading
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