This Rare Moment

M 60 -The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

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Keith Haring

[zayzl]

Just your annual heads up, Northern Ontario is actively on fire with little resources from the provincial government to combat them. Over 144 fires on record, you've seen the fire from Armstrong and another from Collins, but several First Nations along the corridor have lost their homes and have been displaced. Please keep them in mind this season as the fires have devastated their homes and displaced them, some were evacuated to Niagara where they face indiscriminate racism.

Please support some of the following (and please feel free to tag more)

Thunder Bay Community Pasture

Northern Reach Network

Both the Nokiiwin Tribal Council at 384 Fort William Road and the Superior Inn at 555 West Arthur Street in Thunder Bay are accepting donations for evacuees. They've posted that they're in dire need of baby and toddler supplies (especially diapers and formula) and cat and dog food and supplies. (X)

[dad-pegger]

Anishinabek Nation is also accepting donations in solidarity w the Namaygoosisagagun First Nation

e-transfer: [email protected]

[blondebrainpowered]

Carrie Fisher, Paul Simon, and Shelley Duvall, 1970s.

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[thepopculturearchivist]

Lost History?

I've loved history since I was a kid, and when I was a kid I was really into the U.S. Bicentennial and all its gimmickery: the Freedom Train, Operation Sail, etc. A daily highlight for me back then was watching the Bicentennial Minute on CBS. Every day, starting back in 1974, some celebrity would recount a significant event on the road to Revolution from 200 years before. Fifty years later, I thought of posting some today, and found out that, out of several hundred installments, only 25 are available for viewing online. I don't know whether that means that all the rest are lost or simply undigitized. It would be awful if they're gone forever, but for now here are the available episodes from YouTube:

https://youtu.be/xBDHgs90jiU?si=HQoi6YUit1ow1_ia

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but it seemed like we were in a more celebratory mood back then, despite the notorious 1970s malaise. Part of that, I'm sure, was that no one saw anything partisan about celebrating the nation's birthday -- nor, I'm more sure, would it have occurred to President Ford, all his faults notwithstanding, to make it partisan or personal. Compared to now, even the Seventies were a more innocent time.

[thisraremoment]

I’m happy to see this post. As a Canadian I witnessed the US Bicentennial from an outsider’s perspective and I agree with @thepopculturearchivist. I remember the run up to the bicentennial, it was a gradual build and then it was as though all of America was overjoyed, and as a Canadian, I felt happy for Americans. I was young and naïve to be sure but even so, there was a positivity in America even if the shadow of Viet Nam and Nixon was still felt. I hope that kids today will get to take back their country and feel some optimism about what America can deliver , that they can read their constitution and bring out the best parts. Happy 250 to all the up and coming American kids.

[thepopculturearchivist]

SATURDAY EVENING POST, June 30, 1951

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

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I’m 61 years old and I still don’t know which side of a bacon package to open

[formlab]

Lights of New York City, Ernst Haas, 1970s

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The New York I miss so much because I can’t bring myself to go to the US now.

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Blade Runner (1982)

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Listening to Mark Carney makes me feel that we are still living in a sane world.

”The world is undergoing a rupture across several dimensions - integration is being used as a weapon by some and the rules are not constraining the hegemons”

at the European Political Community meeting

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it’s the small things. watching On The Road and the Joual French is absolutely crap. I had to listen 4 times to match what Sal was saying to Memère just to get what they were trying to say.

[liza-jane]

[night-spell]

1977 © Masayoshi Sukita | easyliveauction

[formlab]

Fallingwater in Winter, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935

[jetix]

Walkmans/Portable CD players

[thisraremoment]

I had an Aiwa because the Walkman was too expensive. The batteries would die after playing for about 30 minutes but the feeling of having music playing in my ears while I walked down the street made me feel like I was in a movie.