Square America provides a bizarre series of vintage photographs...
What Was On (1957) - 48 Photos of women on TV taken late at night by a lonely photographer in 1957. Encrusted with 50 year old dust and emulsion the photos of women from melodramas and late-night talk shows are not only a record of one person's peculiar obsession but also a virtual catalog of the kind of roles women played in the popular entertainment of the era.
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In other news: Cheney Dozes During Wildfire Meeting
I'm sure he'll be more interested if there turns out to be a fat reconstruction contract for Halliburton in it.
Instead of being alert in Wednesday’s Cabinet session about California’s wildfire crisis and perhaps offering some helpful action items for the team, Vice President Dick Cheney apparently decided it was snooze o’clock and got a little shuteye at the meeting table, although a White House flack insisted he was simply “meditating.”
Hopefully he's feeling a little [wurst] every day. Good riddance would really like to feature him in a blog post. Natural causes of course, unlike Darth Cheney, I abhor violence. :P
P.S. I refuse to take a murst left there as charity. {Oops!}
Did anyone actually look at the "What Was On (1957)" exhibit and the scrawled notations on the back sides of some of the featured photos?
Something about it personifies a post-War American sense of alienation.
It's interesting that he got so many pictures of one or two faces, close-cropped. You don't see that very much any more. I was also caught by how long it has been since I last had to read cursive.
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