pop-culture-and-trends
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The next 100 words
You might remember from last week that I’m participating in a month-long writing exercise building a short story [1], one-hundred words at a time. Last week, we tackled the introduction: a hundred words to acquaint the reader with the characters, setting, and develop a story question or inciting incident. This week, we move on to…
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Serial Novels
Before television… before radio… many people got their fiction fix via serial novels. [1] This is especially true for Rose in the late 1920s and early 1930s. While radios were getting their start, it wasn’t until the mid-30s that nearly every household could afford one. And since books were expensive and libraries few and far…
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At the Garden
I was reading an article about jazz in the Time-Life special edition on the Roaring Twenties [1] that I recently purchased when I read about a band in Chicago that was tantamount to the rise of that particular music genre. Of course, that got me thinking about my W-I-P, as all things related to that…
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I wish’t I was in Peoria
You haven’t seen much of me lately. I apologize for that. But… well, things got a bit crazy here, what with storms and rising water and holidays and new homes. Still, Rose and Harold are with me every step of the way. In fact, I’ve been listening to 1920s and 1930s music to get a…
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Boogie Shoes
Yikes! That’s not from the 1930s!!! And yet, that first line (Girl, to be with you is my favorite thing) expresses Harold’s sentiments perfectly.
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The internet of the 30s
As you read this, I am without cell signal and internet, deep in the remotest reaches of the world, otherwise known as East Texas. So, I’ve been thinking a bit about what folk’s in Rose’s time did to unwind after a hard day in the fields or doing laundry.
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A tub what?
This Sunday is Easter. So I was looking for Easter hats for Rose. [As an aside, don’t you wish hats would come back in vogue? All those frilly Easter hats, especially from the 40s, look like so much fun.] Back to the matter at hand… I was looking for Easter hats, perusing the Sears Catalog…
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A little cow humor
Harold finds this hysterical. But then, humor was much simpler in 1930.
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Viewer Discretion is Advised
WARNING: The following contains sexual content not suitable for some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. I’m kidding, Dear Viewer. No prurient visual content here. But… If music came with the disclaimers we’re used to seeing on our television programs…
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And the Winner Is…
This Sunday (26 Feb 2017) marks the 89th Annual Academy Awards. Shhhh, don’t tell anybody, but I never watch them. Too many long drawn out speeches. That said, I do have my favorites for Best Picture: Lion, Manchester by the Sea, Hidden Figures. Rose didn’t watch the Academy Awards either. (Of course, she didn’t! There…