nixon nabbing a newspaper
mary astor and john barrymore
diane arbus, “please don’t feed us”
“She details Mme. Chiang’s final years at 10 Gracie Square, an elegant apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. There she kept three dogs (two bichons and a Yorkshire terrier) and employed 24 servants. There were reports that neighbors complained about the cooking odors and cockroaches in her 18-room apartment, and that Mme. Chiang kept a closet filled with gold bars.”
Would you hold still, please, sir?
All right ramblers, lets get rambling!
camera, circa 1900
the Bill Gates
Raymond Robinson (1910 - 1985) was a severely disfigured man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend in western Pennsylvania. Robinson was so badly injured in a childhood electrical accident that he could not go out in public without fear of creating a public panic, so he went for long walks after dark. Local residents who would drive his road in hopes of meeting him called him “The Green Man” or “Charlie No-Face,” and passed on tales about him to their children and grandchildren. Teenagers raised on these tales are sometimes surprised to discover that the mythic boogieman was a real man, well liked by his neighbors and his family.
Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.
