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Chester Kallman, Rhoda Jaffe and W. H. Auden, Fire Island, NY, 1950

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Source: New York Public Library Digital Collections.

 

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Throwback Thursday: “Rappin’ Rodney” (1983)!

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Rodney Dangerfield actually was pretty damn funny, even if I was too young to appreciate his humor when I was a kid.  Not everything he touched turned to gold … I seem to remember a cheesy movie or two.  But this 1983 single was great.  It’s catchy, and its humor still holds up today.

There are a couple of 80’s-tastic cameos in the video, too.  One is Pat Benatar as the leather-clad prison executioner.  (Totally not my thing.)  The other Saturday Night Live’s chain smoking priest, “Father Guido Sarducci” (Don Novello).

 

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Heel me out on this one.

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There’s gotta be a way to troll Donald Trump if he succeeds in getting his military parade — while at the same time respecting the servicemen and servicewomen who are obligated to march in it.

What about spectators wearing old sneakers with the heels painted yellow? Yellow is the color associated with cowardice; one of Trump’s five draft deferments during Vietnam was for bone spurs in his heels.

 

 

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“Winter 1946,” Andrew Wyeth, 1946

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Tempera on board.

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Texas Tavern, Roanoke, Virginia

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It isn’t in Texas and it isn’t a tavern.  It’s a family-owned, all-night burger joint that’s been around since 1930.  And it’s awesome.

That shot of Church Street is awful.  But I’m including it anyway, because New Yorkers simply cannot fathom how empty these streets can be — and quiet!  So often Roanoke seems like a scene in “The Quiet Earth” (1985).

 

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Poster for “The Last Man on Earth” (1964)

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American International Pictures.

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Photo of “Cookery 51-52” class, Mary Washington College, 1917

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“Serving breakfasts, luncheons and dinners, with practice in different styles of table service; soups, entrees, sauces, salads and desserts, with various methods of preparation and garnishings. An opportunity for review of principles learned in Cookery 51-52 is given. One single and one double period per week for the session for non-teaching Seniors.”

— from the Bulletin of the State Normal School, Fredericksburg, Virginia, June, 1917

 

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“Saturn Devouring One of His Children,” Francisco de Goya, circa 1819

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Plaster mounted on canvas.

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Snowanoke!

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So this was Thursday’s bizarre, abrupt twilight snowstorm.  Look how beautiful and blue the sky was before snow and night fell together.  Look at the size of the flakes!

 

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“The face of a lover is an unknown …”

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“The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”

James Baldwin, “Another Country,” 1962