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Buttonholes
Buttonholes
From a New York Times obituary for the tailor Martin Greenfield: a buttonhole-cutting machine that has cut 1,074,000,000 buttonholes.
#technology
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Buttonholes
Kafkish
Kafkish
Gary Gulman: “One of the most pretentious things you can say is ‘Kafkaesque.’
#comedy#Kafka
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Kafkish
Alterations & Repairs
Alterations & Repairs
If you are in a city of any size, you’ve probably seen them in dry cleaners’ windows. The first time I saw these images, I thought they were honest-to-God representations of people who worked inside. O, the naiveté.
#signage
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Alterations & Repairs
Two doctors talking
Two doctors talking
From American Fiction. There are doctors (medical) and doctors (professorial).
#academia#film
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Two doctors talking
Confused
Confused
“You must have me confused with a normal person”: Larry David (Larry David).
#LarryDavid
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Confused
Review: Carol Beggy, Pencil
Review: Carol Beggy, Pencil
This book is a huge disappointment. It’s a volume in the series Object Lessons, short books devoted to the contemplation of everyday things: barcodes, hyphens, rust. Other volumes in this series might be terrific. But Pencil is not.
#pencils
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Review: Carol Beggy, Pencil
Recently updated
Recently updated
Is a two-page handwritten compilation of Thelonious Monk’s advice a forgery?
#TheloniousMonk
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Recently updated
A Gamewell close-up
A Gamewell close-up
Like the mail chute in When Strangers Marry, this Gamewell fire alarm, too, was ready for its close-up.
#film#technology
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A Gamewell close-up
A consequential chute
A consequential chute
When I wrote four sentences about When Strangers Marry (dir. William Castle, 1944), I suggested that the movie has the most consequential mail chute in all film. As the camera closes in, let us pause to ponder a world with five daily mail collections, six days a week. Click any image for a larger view.
#film#mail
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A consequential chute
No coincidence
No coincidence
“I don’t believe in coincidences”: a substitute MSNBC host, yesterday morning. “I don’t believe in coincidences”: Jessica Fletcher, last night.
#synchronicity#television
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No coincidence
So you can always get what you want?
So you can always get what you want?
Jimmy Cliff’s “You Can Get It If You Really Want” (July 1970) sounds as though it may have been meant — or must have been meant — as a reply to the Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (July 1969). And Cliff’s repeated try sounds like a reply to “Satisfaction.” Or am I just hearing things?
#music
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So you can always get what you want?