Look for him. I was never any good at finding him but I enjoyed looking anyway.
All posts for the year 2008
Where’s Waldo?
Posted by believer1 on October 18, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/18/wheres-waldo/
Another Blue Plate Special
For your viewing pleasure: Cimmerian beef.
Posted by lefalcon on October 17, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/17/another-blue-plate-special/
Plan59
If you haven’t looked at the site plan59, you should. It stocks galleries of advertising art from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, most of it very bright and colorful. Looking at it is very refreshing, like doing situps in the office. Only better, because you don’t have to worry about whether the floor is clean. Some representative selections below.
1960 Pontiac Bonneville Sports Coupe
Street scenes like this one above are favorites.
Republic Steel 1936
Notice the deep horizon here.
Posted by acilius on October 17, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/17/plan59/
Cimmerian Food
Only $4.95?? Wow. Here’s another view:
Posted by lefalcon on October 17, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/17/cimmerian-food/
Brazil: Ethos and Essence
As requested.
Posted by lefalcon on October 17, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/17/brazil-ethos-and-essence/
Don Rumsfeld’s Fried Rice
I discovered this technique of making a little omelette and cutting it into strips in a youtube video by Manivan Larprom.
Posted by lefalcon on October 17, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/17/don-rumsfelds-fried-rice/
Pie Chart
From haha.nu:
Posted by acilius on October 16, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/16/pie-chart/
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
CBC photo
In 2003, the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill appeared in theaters. It told the story of San Francisco activist/ musician/ writer/ eccentric/ (oh all right he’s a homeless man are you happy now?) Mark Bittner and a flock of cherry headed conures. Descended from birds brought to San Francisco as pets, these birds were endangered when Bittner began caring for them. Visually spectacular, the documentary brings out the individual personalities and complex relationships among the birds. Along the way, it brings out a good deal of information about the relationship between the city of San Francisco and its natural environment. Below is a clip from it PBS posted on youtube.
Click here to see my favorite parrot, Mingus, dancing as Bittner plays the guitar.
Posted by acilius on October 16, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/16/the-wild-parrots-of-telegraph-hill/
Another “White Boy” Strip
In April, I posted about the 1930s newspaper comic White Boy by Garrett Price and included an image of one strip as a sample. Below is another.
1 April 1934
Price had a real gift for landscapes. You can see two White Boy strips featuring landscapes here.
Posted by acilius on October 16, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/16/another-white-boy-strip/
Some blogs by prominent academics
Should professors wear buttons endorsing candidates for public office while they teach their classes? Certainly not, says Stanley Fish on his blog.
George Lakoff uses his theory of semantics to analyze the message John McCain sent by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Juan Cole quotes a paper proposing Franklin Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor” policy in Latin America as a model for the next president’s Middle East policy.
Labor economist George Borjas hasn’t updated his blog since August, but what’s there is still interesting.
University of Michigan linguist Sarah Thomason occasionally blogs under the screen-name “Sally Thomason.” The drawing at the top of the post is one of hers.
Posted by acilius on October 16, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/16/some-blogs-by-prominent-academics/
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