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  1. Miles Borocky

    Show us your vintage home!

    Mary Deluxe: What is that thing over your couch? I like the space-age star kind of shape. And that green is of such a period. Great eye!
  2. Miles Borocky

    Show us your vintage home!

    wow Whether it's period-appropriate or not for this forum, your friend's place is incredibly chic. I love the lamps and the coffee table. Incredibly envious here.
  3. Miles Borocky

    Noir hero for the modern era. The Big Lebowski

    If TBL is noir... ...then maybe a great segue between "real noir" and the Coen Bros. film is Robert Altman's take on Chandler's Marlowe in THE LONG GOODBYE (1973). If you look at Altman's interviews, you'll learn that the director's unspoken conceit was that somehow Marlowe--with a...
  4. Miles Borocky

    Where did your user name come from??

    my name ...is the name of the fictional alter ego I use in stories I write loosely based on my life.
  5. Miles Borocky

    Ebbets Field Flannels

    My ballcap, etc. I agree that the Ebbets stuff is lovely for its authenticity. My preferred ballcap as a Tigers fan is the 1908 model depicted here: http://www.dugout-memories.com/dettig.html As for those vintage sweatshirts... I agree, those would be lovely to have. Ebbets has a...
  7. Miles Borocky

    What do you listen on?

    xm radio I broadcast my XM radio through a nice old tabletop wood-paneled radio I picked up in an antique store. If you have the 1940s or the jazz station on, you really can kid yourself that you've slipped back through time into a lost era.
  8. Miles Borocky

    What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?

    Today's pipe tobacco fix... ...came courtesy of two dear grad students here who invited me out for some afternoon pipe-smoking here on campus. Just tried two I've never had before Stanwell's Melange, and another called American Delight. Both splendid aromatics, which, in good company, and...
  9. Miles Borocky

    What writer would you be?

    Dorothy Parker Speaking of Dorothy Parker, as a few of you were-- This summer, I had the pleasure of staying at the Algonquin Hotel for a few weeks while I was on a research trip in Manhattan. It was a delight to be holed up in one of their classic rooms with my laptop (I know, not a classic...
  10. Miles Borocky

    Ebbets Field Flannels

    While I have a long love of many vintage elements--including saddle and spectator shoes, and tie bars, and nice old school collegiate looking tweed jackets and blue oxford button-downs--one of the longstanding, adolescent vintage loves I've never been able to shake is for classic athletic...
  11. Miles Borocky

    Show us your vintage home!

    Lady Day, I am envious of your Anatomy of a Murder poster. Excellent iconography!
  13. Miles Borocky

    What do you do for Living?

    English professor here (pays most of my bills), plus jazz critic (minimal bills), and fiction writer (pays no bills!). :)
  14. Miles Borocky

    Why don't we write letters anymore?

    I always intend to write more letters-- Ugh. I do enjoy having written them though, and of course, I LOVE receiving them. It's clearly generational though. My mother and grandmother--both of whom stopped school with the twelfth grade--write some of the loveliest letters I've ever read. They...
  15. Miles Borocky

    men who write in or keep journals

    I've been keeping journals since I was 13, and now have a box of them in a closet. It's been a great tool at developing mnemic prowess (that is, friends are always impressed that I remember certain shared events in vivid detail, which I attribute to having lived each of them twice.) My...
  16. Miles Borocky

    What writer would you be?

    what was Faulkner's blend? Well, now, you have to tell me what Faulkner smoked so I can consider trying it for myself. :)
  17. Miles Borocky

    Essential reading about the 1920s-40s?

    merci! Thanks for all the excellent recommendations. I look forward to seeking a number of these out in the library.
  19. Miles Borocky

    The Great Beer Thread

    In my mind, as a faithful beer drinker, one of the great gifts that this blessed US of A has given the ale-lovin' world is the hoppy American pale ale. So, I vote for Victory HopDevil. Bliss in a brown bottle, y'all.
  20. Miles Borocky

    WPA Posters

    whoa! Thanks for sharing these. Great visuals, and I was struck by how in this populist realm, you can see the aesthetic influence of other key modernist forms of expression. That is, just as you can see the Dadaist influence in the visual style of Vanity Fair between 1920 and 1940, you can...
  21. Miles Borocky

    Favorite Tin Pan Alley standards?

    Your line about Green and "Body and Soul" seems equally true for me for other songwriters of the 1930s and 40s. If Billy Strayhorn had only ever written "Lush Life," for example, he'd have solidified his importance in my mind as one of the great contributors to the American popular music canon...
  22. Miles Borocky

    Fashion fads we love to hate

    my two cents This has been an entertaining thread, even if I disagree with many of the posts. :) Regarding hip-hop style-- I don't really have a problem with it, if it's consistent, and if its age-appropriate. As a 34 year old nerdy academic, I think I'd look pretty ridiculous rolling into...
  23. Miles Borocky

    Favorite Tin Pan Alley standards?

    Listening to a radio program on Richard Rodgers last night--and delighting in all of those great Rodgers-Hart collaborations they played--I started to wonder what other TFL members highlight as their favorite Tin Pan Alley standards. Me? I'm a sucker for the great songs of the 1930s, when...

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