The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog. (via Metafilter)
Get a closeup look at the new plaques installed in the presidential hall of fame walk in the White House. Click to enlarge.
Andrew Jackson’s White House once hosted a cheese feeding frenzy. The seventh president’s farewell party featured 1,400 pounds of cheddar. (via Damn Interesting)
"A Trumpian Christmas." The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
15 Times It's a Wonderful Life Was Chaos Behind the Scenes. The movie's a classic, but it took years of unseen toil, frustration, and not a little ca-la-la-lamity to get there
The Body in the Mine Shaft and a Strange Miscarriage of Justice. When there's a murder trial and you're the victim, maybe you should say something.
It’s called FASHION - look it up! (via Everlasting Blort)
New York’s Grand Central Terminal Helped Provide the Blueprint for American Cities. A train wreck that caused the death of more than a dozen commuters near the turn of the 20th century was the impetus behind a monumental project that changed the urban landscape
That time journalist Dorothy Fuldheim faced off with Richard Pryor on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
How to bury your father. How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you badly? (via Metafilter)
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First saw It's a Wonderful Life in the late 70s when it was still only shown once or twice around Christmas time. Its 2 1/2 running time was cut to fit 2 hours with commercials and the cuts were always different. It was like watching a different movie and it was many years before I got to see the whole thing.
Fun fact (from Snopes): The move was included as part of the FBI's COMPIC (Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry) investigation in the 1940s focused on alleged Communist influence within Hollywood, particularly the Red Scare. From part of their report:
With regard to the picture “It’s A Wonderful Life”, [redacted] stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a “scrooge-type” so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists.
There's more, but you get it. Happy Friday Miss C!
I was just reading that on Wikipedia last night. What they seem to have forgotten is that George Bailey was also a banker.
I predict that after January 2029, those plaques – along with the newly-installed letters on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – will be in th hands of some Virginia or Maryland scrap metal dealer.
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Dorothy Fuldheim vs. Richard Prior. Am getting cognitive dissonance, reading the Wikipedia link about her, how she was "the first lady of TV news" (back when TV news was worth watching), advocating in her lectures and writings for things like birth control, women's rights, and for publicly owned utilities and railroads. She was, apparently, one of the most well informed people in the world. Yet to listen to her spew such nonsense about poverty and privilege, she sounds like a bigoted ignorant fool. She made me cringe. Richard Prior handled her astonishingly well.
That shows how easy it is to be concerned and get informed about issues that affect you directly, yet still be oblivious to issues that concern others.
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