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“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on. Boasting is what a boy does, because he has no real effect in the world.”
— Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Davenport High School
(Yale Joel. 1953)
1950s High School Auto Shop Class
"Measure Up"
They could almost pass this off as an homage, four decades out. Though, to be sure, the original’s reprintings in semi-archival “best of” collections come out after the reprise. Maybe the new rendering is cause for the re-discovery? And if Fernando Ruiz has to take script credit, he ought make some tip to original uncredited writer – reportedly at comics dot org and probably in reading it Frank Doyle. Ruiz does add “Yo!” and “Dude” to the equation, so he’s got that, I guess.
Curious. Harry Lucey has Jughead break the fourth wall on page three. The more un- imaginatively straight forward Stan Goldberg just has him screeching to a halt, expressing the same astonishment. Page four sees the only significant change in narration with skateboard disruptions replacing underground garbage storage– Ruiz has to justify his script credit. Maybe he knew that Goldberg wouldn’t do justice to Lucey’s Archie splits.
Different phrases swapped out and in. “Get my goat”. “ Pulling my leg”. And I think Goldberg’s version botches the premise by having Archie carrying the board with both hands. And it all ends with another breaking of the fourth wall getting bumped off at the end.
Shop Class Mickey
022/365 #hunt the mouse
i wonder what his deal is. like hes got sort of a teacher vibe but also hes merged with a buzzsaw, level, and some wood and metal with a plug tail
I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.
You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.
I was today years old when I realised that whatever teaching method our shop class teacher used, it has ingrained the knowledge of how to knit so deeply in my brain, I could just pick up my great aunt's needles and knit a nice little piece of cloth in two hours. (tbf, the teacher also taught psychology and philosophy and the edges aren't the prettiest on that piece of cloth.) So now I wonder:
Did you have to learn how to knit in school?
Yes, and I can still do it.
Yes, and I've mercifully forgotten how to.
No, but I've learned how to since.
No, but I'd love to learn.
No, and I'm glad I didn't.
Nuance.
And this, is why I assume we took shop class in high school.
Recently we decided to try out a small bioethanol insert for the fireplace. Our fireplace is decorative at best, built in the 1930s with too small of a chimney flue. It tends to gutter quite a lot and houses were drafty back then so it pulls quite a vacuum when you're burning a nice hot pile of hardwood these days.
The alcohol cooker uses a type of rock wool wick and it burns very very cleanly. However as the burner box is about the size of a Kleenex package it doesn't put off a ton of heat. Thinking back to the boy scouts I remembered using reflectors to cook with and old fireplaces quite often had iron reflectors in the back to maximize their output and protect brick in general.
Having some old aluminum channel material from a long gone tub surround and a nice piece of flashing and a pop rivet tool I went to work. Photos a glow to come.
