Yesterday I went to to Youngblood Gallery to see the Ernesto Cuevas Jr. show. Bought a copy of Cabinet Magazine in their boutique store and took a couple of pictures in the neighborhood.
Author: Robert Kimberly
ATL at Sundance: "The Signal"
“This film will explode. Mark my words. It has cult classic written all over it. “
I was reading Ain’t It Cool and found this review about The Signal. Made by the Atlanta filmmaking team of David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry it also has local actress Anessa Ramsey.
I’ll be curious to see what happened to this movie. Anessa is one of the lead actresses, and a friend of me and the missus.
Meat: The Main Course – Of Course!
Meat: The Main Course – a Flickr photoset
A 1942 guide to meats from the fine folks at Kingan and Co.
Recipes, advice, pictures and a preface from Ann King, Home Economic Director at Kingan.
Enjoy delights like:
Fried Ham with Heavy Cream (pg. 3)
Tasti-Cooked Picnic with Raisin and Orange Sause (pg. 5)
Braunschweiger and Celery Canapes (pg. 17)
…everything you wanted to know about Tasti-Square Meats (pg. 15) and much, much more.
Instead of a Real Post, Random Things about the Blogger
When I got my haircut in Dublin, Ireland, they played nothing but Elvis Presley.
When I was a kid, I ate peanut-butter, dill pickle, and potato-chip sandwiches. Now at a minimum, I have one peanut-butter sandwich a week. Often with cornchips or potato-chips in it.
I never got paid for posing nude once. Even though I was supposed to.
As a kid my great-aunt would often give me a hammer and a mechanical alarm clock. I would beat the hell out of it until I couldn’t get loose any more gears or springs. Hours of good fun.
As a young, angst-filled kid, sometimes I didn’t like eating with my parents. So, if we were at a restaurant and I finished, I’d always ask to go to the car and listen to the radio. It was there that I got very skilled at turning on every button (sunroof included) with my toes. I would also imagine our ’84 Monte Carlo could launch satellite-destroying missiles.
APWBWGTTD: Holy Crap, I Laughed Hard…
… it was mainly at the expense of the activists that were in the room nearby. The “Change Bush Regime” activists.
Anyways, even though our fearless leaders weren’t there, it was a great time. And a reminder of why these blogger meetups are fun to begin with.
Others who attended will blog more. All I have to say is, “2007 Teacher Sex-Scandal Pinup Calendar.”
Niccccce!
National De-Lurking Week: Hi Stranger!
It’s National De-Lurking Week. So leave a note. I am only validated by your comments and visits. I live and die by the number of visits to the blog and Flickr pictures. So, give me something to live for. It’s all I ask.
And, there will be more posts coming soon.
"When Good Art Goes Bad"
The Christmas Booty: A Partial List
I just started using my Christmas iTunes giftcard. I love music but find myself really reluctant to use any of the credits just waiting to be spent. It’s free money, I don’t know what the problem is. But I just grabbed my first album, a little known 2002 release by The Squire of Somerton. You don’t know him, and that’s a shame.
Here are some of the season’s other highlights.
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Venture Bros: Season One
Animated adventures of failed super-scientist Doc. Venture, his bodyguard/Swedish murder machine Brock Samson and Doc’s charming boys. Also include the mundane details of arch-villainy and costumed aggression. From my sweet wife who likes the show as well.
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Raymond Scott’s “Soothing Sounds for Baby” An ambient electronic soundtrack for child development, recorded in 1964. Raymond Scott created much of the music that ended up in Warner Bros cartoons of the 40’s and 50’s like “Powerhouse” and “Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals.” Just the guy you want influencing your child’s young mind.
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Interior Desecration’s: Hideous Homes from the Horrible ’70s and The Gallery of Regrettable Food by James Lileks. Mean things said about food and decor from the decades before punk rock and after the WW2.
A 1950’s pamphlet on “Meat, The Main Course.” An irony-free version of the Jame Lileks book. Needs to be scanned and shared online.
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A damn sharp knife for the kitchen. An even more dangerous Cuisinart mandolin.
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There’s more, for later…
Holiday Fun in Philadelphia: The Masons and The Mutter Museum
Before getting back to Atlanta for the New Year, we spent a few days in Phily for a work-related event. While my sweetie was working on bringing home the bacon, I had a fun play day out in the city of brotherly lurve.
First on my list of things to do was get a much needed haircut. A search on Google found me Harry’s Barber Shop. It was nearby, sounded like a solid place to get my hair’s trimmed, and unlike “Cut” which had me thinking a salon with fewer words = higher price. So, off I walked in search of my barber. 1324 Locust St. should have been easy to find, but all I saw was The Arts Condominium, a swank new condo complex being made in a sweet art deco building. There were tenants, but the foyer was still getting carpeted. I almost left when I looked down at a sidewalk level window.
I got buzzed in and walked down into the basement level warren of hallways and doors below the foyer. Harry’s was a complete time warp, and one that hadn’t aged well. In a perfect world Harry’s would have had all the vintage accouterments in perfect order. Here though, the couch was ripped up, the tile walls were cracking and the Formica counters were showing their age. But the barber chair’s were vintage and so were the barbers. The younger may have been in his 50’s and Harry looked like he was in his 70’s. He was nice, social, and a little hard of hearing. His dad started cutting hair across the street in 1922 and Harry had been in his location since 1974, when the building was the Hotel Sylvania. I got just the cut I thought I would get, a straight razor cleanup and even my eybrows trimmed.
Next on my list, the Mason’s! How could I not, with our hotel right next to The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. I was hoping they allowed photography and they did. The tour was great, the building beautiful, and the pictures turned out nicely.
* Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania – a photoset on Flickr
After that it was a trip the Mutter Museum. The items on display include:
* The plaster cast of the torso of world-famous Siamese Twins, Chang & Eng, and their conjoined livers
* Joseph Hyrtl’s collection of skulls
* Preserved body of the “Soap Lady”
* Collection of 2,000 objects extracted from people’s throats
* Cancerous growth removed from President Grover Cleveland
* Tallest skeleton on display in North America
Unfortunately, no pictures allowed. The place is both intriguing and nauseating, and makes one just happy to live in time of advanced medicine.
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Other pictures taken while on the road.
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Post-Christmas Trip: Philadelphia
I’m in the cradle of American democracy tonight, accompanying my wife on a business trip. When our trips revolve around her work, we have concluded that for me the attractions usually breakdown to ‘Things Made to Look like Big Things” and “Anything Masonic”.
The “big thing” in the trip was supposed to be the recreation of Noah’s Ark on the I-68 in Maryland. But all that we saw was a bare framework of metal I-beams. I had thought about documenting the place for fans for such things, but at such an incomplete state it wasn’t worth getting off the highway. Pastor Richard Greene had a vision in 1974 of the Rebuilding Of Noah’s Ark. He hasn’t much to show for it Fortunately, someone else took the picture for me.
Someone With WAY Too Much Time On Their Hands
Originally uploaded by jocieposse.
As for “Anything Masonic”, our huge corner hotel room on Penn Square overlooks The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. Not even a half-block away. And there are public tour! Yes.
Plus, there is the Mutter Museum in Philly.
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When we drove through Lexington, KY in the afternoon, we passed the lovely sign for the Parkette Drive-In. By day it looks promising, and at night its a true thing of beauty. Gotta love the carhop on top. We also saw another great sign, that will keep until next post.
The Lexington, Kentucky Parkette Drive In
Originally uploaded by kthread.
Parkette Drive-In, Lexington KY
Originally uploaded by baikinange.
Neon Poisoning 