WANTED, IN THE OLD WEST, AND IN VICTORIAN THEATRE AS WELL PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we saw British polymath Robert Harling rise (possibly from orphenhood, possibly not) to become a typographer (Playbill font, 1938), an editorial trainee (twice, not for long … Continue reading
WANTED, IN THE OLD WEST, AND IN VICTORIAN THEATRE AS WELL PART 1
THESE TIDBITS, IN PARTS 1 AND 2 today and tomorrow, are about Robert Harling’s Playbill typography (which, curiously, has nothing to do with Playbill, the theater magazine described in “Prokofiev, … Continue reading
WILL CUPPY GREATS PART 2
HERE IN PART 2, we continue satirist extraordinaire Will Cuppy’s assessments of the world’s Greats, at least those so identified by posterity. Peter the Great. Cuppy explains, “Peter the Great … Continue reading
WILL CUPPY GREATS PART 1
AS I’VE NOTED BEFORE, Will Cuppy is my favorite satirist. His style is deceptively simple: sorta a well-executed theme paper with tongue firmly in cheek. Like I said, “heavily researched … Continue reading
SAVORING LENNY LIPTON’S LABOR OF LOVE PART 2
I’VE JUST STARTED Lenny Lipton’s astonishing 795-page celebration of The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Age. It’s not the … Continue reading
SAVORING LENNY LIPTON’S LABOR OF LOVE PART 1
MY ACQUISITION OF BOOKS arises occasionally from reading The New York Times Book Review or the London Review of Books. This time around, it involves the latter, but in a … Continue reading
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY YEARS
THIS IS A CELEBRATION OF WIFE DOTTIE, known to many of you as Dorothy Clendenin. A person-to-person get-together was planned for relatives and friends for today, July 23, the date … Continue reading
OUR LANGUAGE’S THEY/THEIR SQUABBLE
I SEEM TO HAVE sidestepped our English language’s non-gender hassle. Indeed, I have LBGT family and friends, though assigning any of them “he/she” or “his/her” never seems to be a … Continue reading
POLITICAL REPARTEE
CURRENT POLITICS ARE LAMENTABLY lacking in so many aspects, among them any sense of repartee, wit, or humor. Here are earlier examples as gleaned from Dr. Mardy Grothe’s Viva La … Continue reading
IN PRAISE OF BREWER’S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE & FABLE
FROM TIME TO TIME, I feel the urge to seek trivia. Not directed research on one thing or another. Just taking pleasure from unadulterated facts I really don’t need to … Continue reading
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