Random Postings from Yours Truly

Production Assistant at a NBC affiliate. Serial napper. Lover of Hamburgers, French Fries and Vanilla Cokes. Beer Geek.

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Hypnotic. New news server raids. (at LEX 18)

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Created in 1963, three years before the infamously camp Batman TV show hit the airwaves, DC Comics allowed a man named Forrest Robinson to build a Batmobile. The car was built for private use but the owner eventually leased it to others who used it in Batman promotions. Because the car was built before the TV show started, it was a bit off-brand, so once replicas of the vehicle used on TV emerged, Robinson regained control of the car. He then sold it and the vehicle then went unloved until a 2008 re-discovery and restoration.

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As a possessor of a gold membership card in the bricklayers' union, former Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, performed a thorough job when he laid the cornerstone for the Empire State Building on Fifth avenue and 34th street, New York, NY. June 23rd, 1930.

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Within the next generation I believe that the world’s leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

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Picture taken on June 30, 1953, of the very first Corvette to roll off the assembly line. Every model produced that year was Polo White with a red interior, and came with a $3,498 price tag.

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Enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the Vines on the Waterfront Wine Festival!

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So which wine should we get?

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When legendary cartoonist Al Hirschfeld began his career there was no such thing as an ergonomic office chair... He found this used barber chair in a junk shop and paid three bucks for it. Over the next 60 years or so he sat there and created some of the most wonderful cartoons of the 20th century...

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Horrific photo of a B-25 crash at Byoritsu, a Japanese oil refinery on Formosa. Photograph was captured by the lead B-25 of the 5th Air Force's 345th Bomb Group on 26 May 1945. Just as the plane released its string of parafrags, B-25 NO. 192 was hit by flak from a camouflaged battery and trails smoke. A gaping hole is visible on the pilot's side...

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Pan Am's China Clipper roars past an unfinished Golden Gate Bridge in 1935.

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Shooting Where the Wild Things Are (2009).

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This camera shot 486 frames of the most viewed film of all time... It was owned by Abraham Zapruder and recorded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The FBI has the camera on display (sometimes) otherwise it's in the National Archives in Washington D.C. under lock and key.

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Mulberry Bend, Five Points, New York in 1896.

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Burbank CA. Warner Bros. backlot, 1980.

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Moscow Palace of Soviets is one of the most famous unfinished architectural projects in history. This huge (biggest and tallest in the world) building would have become a symbol of the triumph of socialism, the symbol of a new country and a new Moscow...

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This morning was Cooper's Choice. This is where he led me.

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I hope he knows that I work hard for him to be able to do that all day.