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  1. Katzenjammer

    Dust Jackets: Meant to Be Tossed?

    Here's the latest question that's been nagging at me. After having spent some time browsing through 20s-50s dust jacket art online, I'm wondering: were dust jackets intended to be kept with the original hardcover, or were they viewed as disposable and quickly discarded? Were they just a bit of...
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    What are the Oldest Objects you Own?

    This children's book is probably the oldest thing I own (that can be accurately dated). It's from 1881.
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    What Are You Reading

    The Way Some People Die by Ross MacDonald.
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    Hanging your laundry on a clothesline

    Way too cold and foggy where I live (even in the Summer) for this, but I let my shirts dry indoors on hangers whenever possible. Takes a couple of days!
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    What Are You Reading

    Rereading At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, by A. Roger Ekirch.
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    You think you have a bad commute

    Urk! I can't even handle the Disneyland Skyway.
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    Blade Runner remastered

    I share your interest...and have picked up a lot of the same stuff. Also recently found an interior design book from the late 1970s called High-Tech that was supposedly used as reference for Deckard's apartment, but the connections are pretty tenuous. While it's not technically a "Deckard"...
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    Wearing a tie in a company that does NOT embrace ties?

    A Freudian analyst would have a field day with your boss, by the way.
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    The new X Men flick

    Neat! Though in a perfect world she'd play Sue Storm in a Fantastic Four movie set in 1962.
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    Wearing a tie in a company that does NOT embrace ties?

    When I started my current job, years ago, I made a point of wearing a tie every day...partly to appear more professional, partly to show off my collection of vintage neckwear, and partly to bring a little swingin' hipness to the environment. That was the idea, anyway. Eventually I realized I...
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    Show Us Your Oldest Books

    Depressing childrens' book from 1881: My wife supposedly has a couple 18th Century textbooks lying around the house, but they're lost in all the clutter.
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    any other "unworthy" lurkers?

    Yes and no. I've worn vintage or vintage-inspired stuff ever since I was old enough to buy my own clothes, but know very little about brands, the evolution of styles, and how all the bits and pieces are supposed to fit together. I can't contribute a lot to threads about suits or hats, but am...
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    Levi Sta Prest

    Weren't Sta Prest trousers part of the 1960s skinhead look, along with Fred Perry shirts and all that?
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    Favorite scary Radio Show

    Lights Out and Quiet, Please seem to be the best-written and most consistently scary of the genre. Dark Fantasy, Diary of Fate, The Hermit's Cave and Hall of Fantasy are worth a listen, too, though they all feature a liberal mix of gems and clunkers. I subscribe to The Horror, a podcast run...
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    Retro Graphic Novels

    Michael Lark is indeed great. He and Dean Motter put out a really neat graphic novel a few years back called The Batman in Nine Lives, which was a fun, intelligent merger of the Batman universe with a Raymond Chandler-style noir setting. Including Dick Grayson as a cynical Philip...
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    1910 Color Photography

    I wish there were a few more urban scenes on display, but I guess the aim was to capture the country's natural beauty and document rural life.
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    "Christmas is coming....earlier each year"

    No kidding. With all the empty retail space in my city, the Spirit Halloween Superstore will have its pick of storefronts.
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    Vintage desktops/wallpapers on your computer?

    From 1874, which is more "antique" than "vintage," but...
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    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Pabst Blue Ribbon!
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    Your favourite smell

    Night-blooming jasmine.

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