The Skinny Guinea

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Patina.

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Just ordered 2X replacements, identical.

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Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italian, b. 1933), Ficus, 1962-67. Tissue paper on stainless steel polished mirror, 150 x 120 cm.

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4 ply merino with mandatory gold buttons.

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Mandatory.

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Meet Maurie, the Tailgate Pug

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If this man tries to tell you it is cool to wear a black suit with a black shirt on top of a second black shirt, DO NOT TRUST HIM.

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Fashion photographer William J. “Bill” Cunningham Jr. (March 13, 1929 - June 25, 2016). Here creating his own William J. hats circa 1950. RIP.

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At a certain point, later in the band’s career, the Dead became, especially on the East Coast, a token of entitlement squandered or lightly worn. Consider the preppy Deadhead, in his new Jetta, and his counterpart, the Jewish Deadhead, with his boxes of blank Maxells. In “Perspectives on the Grateful Dead,” a volume of scholarly writings published in 1999, one author, in an essay called “Why Are There So Many Jewish Deadheads?,” attempts to explain the affinity in terms of the Diaspora’s search for spiritual meaning (neshama) and community (chevra). The goyish trustafarians lacked that excuse. At any rate, they all quailed in the presence of the biker Deadheads, the leather-vested roughnecks crying out for “U.S. Blues,” but were heartened, in absentia, to have seen them there. The tough guys seasoned the scene with authenticity and menace.

The New Yorker Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten#ixzz2CpH4xkJm (via theskinnyguinea)

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From Scooter to Scooterist:A Cultural History of the Italian Motorscooter  A Senior Thesis Presented To Prof. Anne Cook Saunders on December 17th, 1998

‘In Italy, the scooter not only helped restore the country after the war, it broke down barriers that had existed long before it. Prior to W.W.II, Italy "was largely agrarian with little communication between villages and even cities". Culture and economy were localized and many people never went far beyond the fields surrounding their village. According to the Dregnis, Il Duce "used this lack of communication in Italy to divide and conquer. Postwar, scooters changed all this. The scooter brought the city to the country and vice versa. It brought people together, spread ideas and culture, and almost overnight carried Italy into the modern world; it was the dawn of a second Italian renaissance" (Dregni 1993:9).’

By Mary Anne Long

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Lobsters

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Lewisboro, NY. December 17, 1973

Southern New England Ice Storm of 1973

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Lewisboro, NY. December 17, 1973.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_New_England_Ice_Storm_of_1973