A Native NYer in CT!

After a lifetime in the City is happiness in the sticks?

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1954 IBM typewriter advertisement

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A clever design that also nicely sums up the era's gender roles.

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History buffs have long been appreciative of the amazing high-resolution period photographs (many based on large-format glass-plate negatives) offered by Shorpy, but we never imagined their being synthetically animated as effectively as in the short film offered here, “The Old New World,” by photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia.

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I think he likes his new hat 

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This Good Boy doesn’t know it, but in the iconography of science fiction, that beanie marks him as a fan, an idea originated in the cartoons of the late Ray Nelson.

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The spring queen

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Spring is coming!

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Spraivoll, the Tune-Fool

“And pray, where is she perched, This wild-bird woman with her wondrous throat?”

From The Flying Islands of the Night, James Whitcomb Riley, illustrated by Franklin Booth

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Echoes, Franklin Booth (1874-1948)

A great master of the arts of fine pen and scratchboard work.

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Gorgeous tribute to Blade Runner by artist Victo Ngai.

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Nicely done!

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In honor of the Spring holidays. Best wishes to all who are celebrating Passover and Easter.

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As if nature could paint.

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Gorgeous tribute to Blade Runner by artist Victo Ngai.

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I figured the enemies of the Jews would raise a "false flag" claim at some point, if the bomb threats and cemetery desecrations continued, but even I didn't expect that it would come first from the president himself.

If you don't know what I'm referring to, please read this:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-suggests-jewish-community-spreading-anti-semitic-threats-article-1.2984866

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I am disgusted and offended. It's as if the Nazis claimed that Jewish shopkeepers broke their own windows on Kristallnacht to get foreign sympathy. I can't remember the last time I was so furious at a public figure.

Doubtless the Jewish Trump apologists will tell us again how good Trump will be for Israel and how that excuses everything else.

Oh. Wait. Now I get it! What they really mean is that Jewish life in America under Trump will get so bad that we'll all want to move to Israel. That certainly would solve the demographic threat to Israeli democracy.

Sorry. Not happening. I plan to stay here and fight for my country.

Meanwhile, here's my first response to the so-called president's vile suggestion. Feel free to share it.

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Interior of the Ketterer House (1954-55) in Stuttgart, Germany, by Chen Kuen Lee

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I've loved this look since I was a kid, but could I actually live this way?

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A small treat, from the wonderful Tom Gauld.

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Calibrate your sense of local astronomical scale with this witty info-graphic "map."

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Autumn Road, Lexington, Kentucky

photo via deyaniria

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A beautiful shot from a place I associate with a close friend.

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The Bronx River paints a fall scene better than just about anyone. —MN

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Believe it or not, this is in the heart of NYC!