me3dia

not you3dia

[tvneon]

[me3dia]

If you have not seen the documentary Class Action Park, it's well worth seeking out. It's streaming on HBO Max.

[mywitzend]

[me3dia]

I dunno, guys, I don't think that negligee's coming off.

[me3dia]

[allhailthe70shousewife]

[me3dia]

The original Jim's Original on Maxwell Street in Chicago. The area was an open air market, selling everything from tube socks to antiques to produce to stereos of dubious origins. Jim's was (and still is, at a new building nearby) open 24 hours, feeding anyone who could scrape up a couple bucks for a polish and fries.

This location opened in 1939 and was there until 2001 when UIC and the City pushed the Maxwell Street Market out of its original location and redeveloped the area.

[me3dia]

This week Jim's Original announced that it's being pushed out by UIC again, this time to a spot in Pilsen. The university is its landlord at 1250 S. Union Ave., and they've been given until June 30 to vacate the property in advance of a new, as yet unannounced development.

The new spot at 551 W. 18th St. may be able to be 24 hours again; UIC forced Jim's to close at 1am to "cut down on crime" in the area.

[goudavibrations]

sodom and garfunkel

[goudavibrations]

simon and gomorrah

[copperbadge]

War, Famine, Pestilence, and Young

[me3dia]

Crosby, Stills, Rosemary and Thyme

[me3dia]

In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

— Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway 1997 Chairman's Letter

[gadawg-404]

[me3dia]

"Witness the power of this fully armed and operational concept album!"

[thevaultofretroandvintage]

[me3dia]

We have a pair of rocks glasses with the Dry Sack logo on them, part of a liquor store gift pack purchased some 25 years ago. I no longer remember how Dry Sack tastes... decent enough, I imagine. It's a blend of sherries, so a little sweet.

Boy, the copy in this ad is terrible. "The light drink with the reputation equal to your usual drink"? Yeesh. And "Imported from Spain" is the best they could do for a slogan?

[thevaultofretroandvintage]

[me3dia]

He fixes the cable?

[jkottke]

From above, the Sicilian city of Centuripe looks like a person.

[me3dia]

A man of the city.

[tvneon]

[me3dia]

What did he do to piss off Superman?

[victusinveritas]

[me3dia]

The fact that Mirriam-Webster, publisher of one of the key tools of language prescriptivists, is itself descriptivist pleases me to no end.

[hellenicgoddess]

Ancient Greek Coins With Octopuses 🐙

[me3dia]

Pieces of eight!

[the1920sinpictures]

1930 French set of silver plated animal knife-rests by Sandoz for Gallia in the original case. From Art Nouveau & Art Deco, FB.

[me3dia]

I like that the cat at bottom-right looks irritated that you're resting your knife on it.

[oxidi]

Citroën Karin 1980, Paris Motor Show

[me3dia]

This concept car was in a book I had as a kid. Looking at it now it's obvious how impractical it would be — having to slide over to the center seat when getting in to drive, the ...computer system display?... at the feet of one of your passengers, basically where their feet would go -- but it sure looked cool!

[blisterpacked]

[retropopcult]

No, this was not a Hoth playset released by Kenner, it was actually a “do it yourself” Rebel Base detailed in Woman’s Day magazine in 1980. Their rendition of Hoth was made almost entirely of sheets of plastic foam, which were carefully cut, glued together and then mounted onto a base of corrugated cardboard.  The rear portions of the construction included mock computer banks similar to those seen in some portions of The Empire Strikes Back, as well as a docking bay area complete with shoelaces to simulate maintenance hoses.  Other portions were given over to simulated ice chambers and tunnels, which could serve as either Echo Base corridors or the Wampa’s lair.  Woman’s Day even included a ceiling bracket in one area to allow for action figures to be suspended from their feet as Luke was in the film.  Unfortunately, Kenner didn’t release a Wampa toy until 1982, so I guess you had to use your imagination while utilizing this feature. 

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[me3dia]

One of my favorite things to as a kid was to use the molded styrofoam packing inserts from various toys as "forts" for my Star Wars and GI Joe figures. They tended to be roughly two stories tall (compared to the figures) with interesting shapes inside of a roughly square or rectangular floorplan, with at least one wall that was thin enough to cut a door or window into, or break a section off to emulate ruins. Perfect for Hoth, but also easy to draw or color on to suit wherever the action was taking place.

Hours of fun, for free!

[me3dia]

Holy crap, I just got an inactivity shutdown notice from Google for paranormalinsider[at]gmail.com. That was an address I had for my work on Paranormal Insider, a blog I edited as part of the marketing for A&E’s “Paranormal State” TV show. The blog ran from 2007 to 2008, and I was able to hire @bluishorange as one of the writers! We wrote about all sorts of paranormal activity, not just ghosts — everything from Bigfoot to aliens. I interviewed the leader of the Penn State Paranormal Society, as well as a couple people who had them come look for ghosts in their homes.

It’s long gone from the internet, and I haven’t logged into the account since the blog ended. Really on the ball, Google!