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The Era -- Day By Day
I didn’t understand, back when he left Annie with his friends, why he didn’t leave any financial support. They lost their house and Annie had to find and arrange for alternate housing. If you were a millionaire and you were relying on friends to watch your ward while you were away, and you don’t...- Farace
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I asked my partner, who lived in Rhode Island for forty years, about Melville, and she might have heard of it but couldn’t place it, so she looked it up. Not far from Newport, where she lived for several years, so she was even more surprised she wasn’t aware of it (though she figured out that...- Farace
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Halfway through my high school years Carter took office, and I remember well how he pushed for the adoption of the metric system and the resistance he encountered. (It’s also amusing that in my sophomore year, we weren’t allowed to use those newfangled pocket calculators, but rather a slide...- Farace
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We’ve coincidentally been binge-watching Peter Gunn for the past several weeks, amused that everyone seems to drive a Plymouth Fury. We’ve pondered what city the locale might be, with the occasional references to “across the river,” and the seemingly never-ending supply of cool jazz clubs (early...- Farace
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Spellings of “Lichty” and “Litchy” have been alternating for several days now.- Farace
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We felt the quake in Connecticut. I’m told there were reports all the way to the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border.- Farace
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The first appearance of Vitamin Flintheart. I remember him from reading the comics when I was a kid in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Had no idea he’d been around that long.- Farace
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An article in yesterday‘s Guardian suggests that the destruction of the monastery and death of civilians could have been avoided if the Vatican had taken action to enforce the neutral zone around it...- Farace
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One thing is really bugging me about the Little Orphan Annie story line: Warbucks, millionaire industrialist, leaves his ward with an old friend, who is clearly barely scraping by. Doesn’t it make sense that he’d have left some financial assistance as well, and have some money regularly...- Farace
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My partner, when she was in her 20s, lived in Newport, RI and used to encounter Ms. Duke from time to time when Duke “went out slumming,” in particular enjoying a club called Harpo’s, and sometimes exhibiting bawdy behavior. There were also rumors she was having affairs with her chauffeurs...- Farace
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I have a memory of being two or three and having my mouth washed out with soap for saying “shit.” Very confusing, as all I had been doing was repeating something my dad said!- Farace
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Of tangential interest, perhaps, the trolley museum at which I volunteer has in its collection the Mineola, August Belmont’s private subway car, which during his lifetime was stationed at his private subway stop under the Belmont Hotel. He had an arrangement with the Long Island Railroad that...- Farace
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Back in the ‘80s I found a cookbook on the remaindered table at a local bookstore detailing just how to do this. Recipes tended to give cooking duration in miles rather than time.- Farace
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And, after doing some digging, it appears that Pruneface did make a reappearance, but not until the early ‘80s. My mind was probably mixing memories of Pruneface with The Pouch, another Tracy villain who appeared in 1971, who had been an enormously fat man who lost weight, leaving large folds of...- Farace
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I could swear, when I was a kid in the ‘60s/early ‘70s reading Dick Tracy in the daily paper (The New Haven Register) on the living room floor, that there was a story line where Pruneface made a reappearance, to everyone’s surprise.- Farace
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We love the Patrick Stewart version, which I understand was a labor of love for him. It is perfectly cast throughout (Richard E. Grant as Cratchit, Saskia Reeves as Mrs. Cratchit, Joel Gray as Ghost of Christmas Past, Ian MacNeice as Fezziwig, etc.), and a bit closer to the original book than most.- Farace
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At the trolley museum where I volunteer, there is one car that ran the night hours in New Haven, making the rounds between the restaurants, bars, and clubs, and it was known as The Owl. It was modified to have a concrete floor so it could be easily hosed out at the end of its shift. o_O- Farace
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My first taste of sushi was in the summer of 1984. A friend brought me into Manhattan to a place near the Empire State Building called Genroku Sushi (how I can remember the name, I don’t know, when I can’t remember what I did yesterday). It had a large U-shaped lunch counter with a conveyor belt...- Farace
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Not exactly on point with the newspaper, other than the ads that sometimes appear, and the occasional mention in discussion, but I thought it might be enjoyed by the folks that frequent this thread. If it has been previously discussed, I missed it, but last night we were looking for something to...- Farace
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I did a bit of research after I posted. Seems there are a few different ways to accomplish the desired result. I have a decent stash of parts—I was building guitar effect pedals in the past, with many parts ordered from Mouser or Digikey—so I might even have what I need on hand. I’m no expert by...- Farace
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