pop-culture-and-trends
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Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day. The day of romance… Great if you’re in a relationship. Often just a painful or awkward reminder for those who aren’t. Charlie sort of feels that pain himself, as you will see…
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Oh, Harold. I must have a Lido hat!
This lovely Lido¹ hat was all the rage in 1929…
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Groundhog Day
I’ve started perusing the 1929/1930 newspaper of the day each morning and just had to share this rather facetious take on Groundhog’s Day. In case you’re interested in learning more about the day, here’s the Wikipedia article detailing just how this little rodent came to dictate our seasons. Of course, Mr. Groundhog is about as accurate…
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Eighty-Eight Years Young
A chorus of Happy Birthday is in order. On this day (January 17, 1929) eighty-eight years ago Popeye the Sailor Man was born. He wasn’t much of anybody back then. Just a spare character needed to get the main character, Olive Oyl, where she needed to be. Who knew he’d be such a scene stealer?
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A Tribute
I recently did a music/movie post, but that happened before I noticed that Singin’ in the Rain was a song from Rose’s era. So, in tribute to my favorite movie ever and remembering all three of its stars now deceased (Gene Kelly, Donald O’Conner, and Debbie Reynolds), here is the original version of the song.
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Button Up Your Overcoat
While that’s good advice for a January in the northern hemisphere, this post is not a commentary on winter weather. Rather, I’ve been thinking about popular music that Rose might hum while she works, and Button Up Your Overcoat jumped out of the Wikipedia list of tunes made popular in 1929. This song was first recorded…
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A Little Christmas Music
Only three more days until Christmas. Are you ready? Rose is. She finished up Harold’s gift—embroidered hankerchiefs—yesterday, and, today, she and Harold chose and cut their modest pine. Of course, she’s done crafting her ornaments and is settling in, just now, to trim the tree. Cue the Christmas music.
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A Corn-y Mystery
Okay. I apologize for the bad pun. Just trying to keep with the corn theme from my last post. There’s actually a mystery surrounding this picture. Two mysteries, to be honest. The first is about little green men. Martians. Men from outer space.
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Working Title: Moonlight & Roses
Titles are difficult. Not only that, conventional wisdom says the book’s title is best determined after the book is finished. But it has to be called something in the meantime, right? If only so one can preface that terrifying question that comes after one admits to writing a novel: “What’s it about?” So, what, you ask,…