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Commented on Props of Mad Men
Now I want to run away and source historically accurate props for Tinsel Town. Any job openings?...
Commented on An oral history of Over the Edge, "The greatest teen rebellion movie of all time"
I own this soundtrack on vinyl. Bought it when I was in high school and it survived several Great Vinyl Purges. It's a wonderful collection of music: Come On (Part 1) by Hendrix plus Little Feat, The Ramones and *tons*...
Commented on Will a clean fridge get you laid?
The fact that Chef Corey not only knows what mole is but will likely cook it for you? Dead sexy. The detailed system for cataloging every item in the fridge? Meh....
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Commented on List of books read by backpackers
My favorite thing to read when I travel is fiction set in the area where I'm traveling. When I was staying in a hostel in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1994 I picked up a copy of Children of the Arbat...
Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
I was gonna point you to HomeMovieDay.com, but canetoad (#37) and Albert (#105) beat me to it. As for you, Mr. Brown (#110) it is quite clear you are neither a librarian nor a historian. The power and value of...
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I had no idea people did this. Virtual vinyl FTW!...
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Commented on Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
burned all my notebooks...what good are notebooks?...
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Favorited Bad News From the Past: blog devoted to century-old bad newspaper stories on Boing Boing
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I recommend the bigfoot books to *everybody*! I nearly hurt myself when I read the first one because I was laughing so hard. The entire conceit is hilarious and the execution (text + drawings) knock it right out of the...
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I'm a big fan of ghost flames: http://tinyurl.com/ksgkze ...and a new convert to the AWESOMENESS of true fire. Thanks, #16 Kurtmac!...
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Commented on Blinds made from Card Catalog cards
I inherited boxes of old catalog cards at my day job. I've been using them for notes, but now I'm dreaming of a roll-up shade for my door-less doorway. That would be so lovely. P.S. Sorry, Mr. Katz. Nothing personal,...
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webmonkees commented on Props of Mad Men
It's also a bit fun to play propmaster/time warp at home; Slowly building a mid-70s office with a vintage electric typewriter, Texas Instruments LED calculator, etc. Side benefit is that it's both cheap (thrift shop) and durable (built better). Sure, there's ebay, but that takes the fun out of discovery at the dollar table or flea market. At worst, a day's worth of teardown and cleanup and it's good as new. And very fun to use a real stand mixer with metal mixing bowls. Just set that thing in motion and it's both kinetic and culinary entertainment....
jfrancis commented on Props of Mad Men
Wow, mad props! :D...
Tdawwg commented on Props of Mad Men
that is because the couch is set dressing, and the interview is with the Prop Master. If the interview was with the Set Designer, they might talk about that fainting couch. Incorrect. It's a prop if an actor interacts with it. Fail. tdawwg- you can bet there was a "discussion" in the production meeting about which department was going to have to find/make the vagina couch. If Buckwald didn't discuss it, he won. And by "win" I mean that couch did not have to come out of his budget or be found by his crew. No one argues to have...
theturtle commented on Props of Mad Men
In that time period it was much more likely you'd have had either manual Royals or, if it was IBM, an IBM Executive, which was a conventional type-bar unit. Selectrics were expensive and didn't replace manual typewriters completely until well into the 1970s....
IMSA12 commented on Props of Mad Men
My father was a talented designer of consumer products for Corning Glass Works in the early 1960's and 70's. I've seen his now-iconic work appear in some movies that depict mid/upper class kitchens of the time, and now his designs appear in the Draper kitchen (last season) and on the stove of Don's girlfriend this season. I really enjoy all of the design/artistic references that get included in the whole Mad Men scene, but I wonder if any of the ad agencies of the time really were cool enough to be hanging the likes of Marc Rothko on their office...

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