May 1943. Point Pleasant, West Virginia. “Rural life along the Ohio River. Jimmie Fergusen, son of the local junior high school principal, pouring out a glass of lemonade with his mother.” Acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the Office of War Information. The high-resolution version reveals details.
The Disciples Of Cthulhu edited by Edward P. Berglund, cover Karel Thole
The Village Voice - Apr 19, 1976
via sjvn, who says, “This seems more apt than usual.” Thanks!
via. Thanks!
Cover by John Berkey. When I was a kid it bothered me that the illustration looked nothing like Asimov’s robots.
The man under Cousin Itt’s costume
The end of the Great Wall of China
From the comments: “It’s like he’s crying because they tried something new and it got weird”
Thanks, Tom!
It Was the Day of the Robot by Frank Belknap Long
Coney Island, 1961, Diane Arbus
Nude Interracial Love Dance. via
mitchellaneous.net, aka Mitch’s Other Blog, is where I’m posting memes, vintage ads and photos, and other found media. I don’t imagine many people will bookmark mitchellaneous.net and return to it. It exists primarily as a publishing platform to share posts to a newsletter and several social media services, powered by Micro.blog, the great service that hosts both this blog and that one.
I’m thinking of changing the domain of this blog as well, to mitchipedia.org. It’s now mitchw.blog, of course, but I soured on that domain a while ago. One reason is because “MitchW” isn’t one of the names I use in life. I use “Mitch” or “Mitch Wagner.” People who knew me when I was a child call me “Mitchell.”
Also, I love blogging but I don’t like the word “blog.”
On the other hand, is “mitchipedia” too cute?
I own mitchwagner.com, and formerly blogged there, but I decided a few years ago to put a slight distance between my professional identity, which is tied to that name (my real name) and the stuff I post here. Now mitchwagner.com is just a placeholder site.
Another option would be to give this blog a domain tied to a catchy name, like Daring Fireball or Scripting News or Pluralistic. But all the names I could think of seemed to be either too bombastic or too cute. And so many of the good domains are taken now.
