June 29 08
[mental meta: should i dispose of the numbered titles? part of me likes it, but they're a bit annoying to read after the entry has been spidered.]
It’s Hali, late June, nearly July. It’s 15 degrees outside. It’s raining (and therefore overcast), and we won’t see the sun for a couple days. but i’m taking it [...]
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June 28 08
To Catch A Thief (1955), Alfred Hitchcock, dir.
June 26 08
Sylvia Beach and James Joyce, outside her bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.
(A much better scan of this photograph is available here (as “a photo of Beach with Joyce”), but I prefer this one, since it hasn’t yet been cropped. I wonder if that boy at the second-floor balcony knew the importance of the figures standing [...]
June 25 08
US Army Enlistment Poster, First World War (Click Image to Enlarge).
Text Reads:
WANTED: HUSKY YOUNG AMERICANS, college or university training desirable, though not essential, to tour to Berlin via France and No Man’s Land. A highly democratic organization in which every man begins at the bottom and works up — every opportunity for advancement. [...]
June 24 08
Offices of The Evening Chronicle
Withy Grove, Manchester
(The Evening Chronicle is part of a tangled history of newspaper titles and owners that eventually (re-)coalesced as the Manchester Evening News and The Guardian in the middle of the 20th Century).
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June 23 08
Deborah Kerr (sleeping) and Pamela Franklin (being creepy) in Jack Clayton’s 1961 The Innocents, a rendition of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898).
(wiki Deborah Kerr, Pamela Franklin) (wiki Jack Clayton, The Innocents) (wiki Henry James, The Turn of the Screw)
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June 22 08
Things I did yesterday (Saturday).
1. Went to the MANS Multicultural Fest. It really should be called the Multicultural Food Fair, but I’m cool with whatever name they give it. A food fair by any other name is still a food fair.
2. Watched some one try to break into cars.
3. Watched a friend get the fuzz [...]
June 19 08
Oh boy… the Liberals’ Green Tax Shift…. For once, I chuckled at a line attributed to the Tory backbench jerk, Jason Kenney, in response to this recently released plan (read: news item).
Kenney, who some call the Conservative’s Attack Dog, but is more like PM Harper’s lap dog, is known to chew out anything that anyone [...]
June 19 08
Audrey Hepburn, Paris Match Cover.
No. 639, 8 July 1961.
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June 19 08
yikes. so some of the people i tutor online want to extend their relationship with me through spacebook. i’m not keen on that. i need to say yes to their request, because i don’t want to offend them (that is to say, they pay me money for tutoring – I don’t [...]