Ten Things You Learn from a Marathon Viewing of "The Real World: Miami"
Joe Reid provides a nice little wrap-up of the lessons that The Real World: Miami taught us over the weekend. My favorite part:
If we weren’t at the absolute apex of roller-blade usage in 1996, I would be very surprised. If they had gotten any more omnipresent, cities would have had to designate special “blading” lanes, and then we’d still be seeing them today, paint half-washed away, a sad/poignant symbol of urban blight and failed proto-green transportation initiatives. LOTS of roller-blading, is what I’m saying.
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From the lost film To the Stars (1906, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)
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California Street, 2009, Plate 3 (by Thomas Hawk)
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The Name ‘3 Musketeers’ Used to Make Sense
These are our two favorite pieces of trivia:
1. John Tyler’s grandsons are still alive.
2. The 3 Musketeers originally included three smaller bars: one vanilla, one chocolate and one strawberry. When the ingredients became too costly during World War II, the 3 Musketeers became a single chocolate bar.
Now that the whole world knows about the first, it’s time to work on spreading the second.
Spread! Spread!
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
“I don’t much care where –”
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in WonderlandHappy Birthday to one of our favorite writers: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832 in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn. His novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass are those rare books that you can read dozens of times and discover something new each time.
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British commandos with German prisoner, France, 1944
He looks so happy.
“I’m going to America! …ladies.”
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HOLY SHIT!!
I’ve had three of these things and I can confirm, THIS WOMAN IS HARD CORE MENTALLY FOCUSED!!!!!!
wtf!?!?
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The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
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I wish I could have been Alexandre Dumas’ muse. His stories are filled with beautiful, scandalous, and sometimes treacherous women, and I fancy that I could have been one.
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