Context

Watching football on a coin-operated TV in a Greyhound bus station in Los Angeles, 1969. Photo by John Malmin.

Animated GIFset: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Photograph of an Edwardian woman, taken mid-sneeze, ca. 1900.

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Midcentury party invitation 

The Glancy Motor Hotel, Clinton, Oklahoma, opened in 1950. It was condemned and abandoned in 2019.

Overheard: “90 percent of being married is yelling WHAT?! from other rooms.”

The Ford Edsel, a 1950s flop so notorious that it’s taught in business schools to this day, outsold the Cybertruck 2:1 in a country with half the population.

Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead and Roger Moore as James Bond - Moonraker (1979)

There’s something odd-looking about that second donkey.

A very wholesome 15-second video of a lion and her cub.

JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years? ME:

JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years?
ME:

Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse

Astronaut, Cliff Rowe (1960)

Isabella Stabile

“Chronicles of Narnia if Lucy Had a Sword.” A delightful GIF set.

JOB INTERVIEWER: Where do you see yourself in five years?
ME:

Me [dropping off my dog’s stool sample at the veterinarian]: Happy Valentine’s Day!

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