2010
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I love Ellen Lupton’s piece on the Times website today about heirlooms and legacies. (Ever wondered what an heirloom chicken wing might look like? Go find out.)
Also in the realm of fading/obsolete/nostalgic, the Times recently took a look at cigarette machines, along with the dwindling number of small old movie houses that are apparently “little [...]
In a sign that they are perhaps the least self-aware retailer ever, the facade of a new Urban Outfitters store being planned for the Upper West Side will be designed to look like four different storefronts: “a hat store, a hardware store, a neighborhood bar and a bodega.” I’ll just let the designer explain the [...]
My grandmother’s recipes, meticulously filed and organized. I wanted to take better, more careful pictures of them, but I didn’t have my good camera with me and there wasn’t really time anyway, so they went on the carpet by the door to the balcony, and I did what I could.
In Obit, Matt Katz rues the death of idle time, and Matt Flegenheimer reports on the closing of NYC restaurant Gino’s, a place that stayed “frozen in the ’40s”:
Gino’s eldest loyalists have lived through crippling wars, sea-changing revolutions, 12 presidential administrations — every verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel, whom they’ve [...]
On Saturday night we went to the Upper East Side and drank cheap beer in the sprawling, river-view apartment of some very rich people that a friend-of-a-friend works for. The family was away at their weekend home, as they apparently are most weekends, and being generous folks, they let this acquaintance of ours hang out [...]
The new Urban Outfitters catalog came in the mail yesterday, and the self-conscious over-the-top hipster-ness of the whole operation is even more blinding than usual. Typically, the catalogs feature artsy photographs of waifish girls/women wearing a collection of clothing that is about one-third nice and/or interesting, with the remainder being alternately horrendous, deranged and/or laughable. [...]
I’m getting obsessed with “View from the Top Floor,” Marc Miller’s carefully curated website that looks back at East Village history as seen from his perch at 98 Bowery. Here, he posts audio clips of answering machine messages that he’s saved, forming “a sound portrait of my life in the 1980’s composed of the voices [...]
In this trailer for the forthcoming movie Flipped: 50’s hits, kids on bikes, sage father figures, and a voiceover that says, “Director Rob Reiner takes you back to the most unforgettable time of your life.” Apparently the movie also won “the Heartland Truly Moving Picture Award” (get it?).
Ah, yes, Rob Reiner longs for a sweeter, [...]
housekeeping
I thought I’d posted a link to this interview with Wendy McClure–author of I’m Not the New Me and connoisseur of kitschy recipe cards–who is writing a book about her Laura Ingalls Wilder obsession (which will be out early next year), but I thought I did a lot of things these last couple weeks that [...]