Once again, someone from 100 years ago is trying to tell us what to do. From a 1909 NYT piece (written as if it were already 2009, the bastard):
With this year of our city, 2009, epochmaking, eramarking celebrations have come and gone - centennial exercises in honor of Henry Hudson, Robert Fulton, the Wright brothers, William Marconi, and other pioneers of last century's strides in science, industrial and otherwise.
It is the second time in our city's history that two weeks of her varied life have been given over as a mighty tribute to those men who marked the beginnings of great inventions, improvements, discoveries, and of applications which have for their result the amazing facilities for live and living afforded in this year of grace 2009.
The celebrations just ended not only mark the close of another great chapter in the history of New York; they have been an episode in the story of the universe.
Piss off, Mr. 1909. "[Y]ear of grace 2009"? Whatever. Why don't you go back to your... Titanic.
In the celebration pictures we find the aerovessel, almost absent from the celebrations of 1909, crowding in upon the vision as cabs did around the old-fashioned theatre one hundred years ago. We find the aerovessel in its many forms - from the single-seated skimmer to the vast aerocruisers, of which the Martian type is perhaps the finest example - equivalent to the Dreadnaught of the ante-pax days. Also, we perceive along the sea coast and on the Hudson River a type of vessel which was not foreshadowed even at the time of the first centennial celebrations - the submarine and flying skimmer, in playfully sobriqued the "susky-marine." Of course, the gradual elimination of earth and ocean surface travel made it inevitable that the submarine aerovessel should have a monopoly of the earth and the waters under the earth. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of the last of the old steel warships, the Amerigo, which foundered in 1947 and all souls after having been split by the Flying Diver (Jupiter: 2d class: 10 v. c.) as the latter shot from the ocean bed to the air leap.
...Huh?
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Yeah, Martian aerovessel traffic has really become a problem lately.
I think that the "flying skimmer" is the 1909 name for the flying car.
You know. . . the one we were promised - apparently, 100 year s ago.
Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters
Awesome. I sent the link to my brother (whose favorite Christmas gift this year was a pencil sketch of Hunter Thompson that my mom bought from some local artist).
Aha! I love sandwiches! "We blog all things sandwichy"
I still think there's a sandwich blog niche out there for you.
Check it out, Tep! August is National Sandwich Month (how did I miss that?) Here's a flickr set celebrating that fact with a sandwich a day all month long.
How DID you miss that? How did YOU miss that? Hop to, man!
Huh. There's a documentary titled Sandwiches That You Will Like about regional specialty sandwiches.
aka, The Documentary Made for Hec.
I have been tempted to start a local club sandwich review blog. A coworker of a friend used to have a blog where he reviewed community and church suppers. It was pretty awesome.
The last time my brother was visiting Cincy, he ate chili at a different restaurant every day of his visit, and reviewed the chili for his restaurant's blog.
With this year of our city, 2009, epochmaking, eramarking celebrations have come and gone - centennial exercises in honor of Henry Hudson, Robert Fulton, the Wright brothers, William Marconi, and other pioneers of last century's strides in science, industrial and otherwise.
Man, I got SO WASTED for Marconi-fest '09, I can't even remember what I broadcast over my wireless radio!
I'm not trading in my Roses lime for lime and powdered sugar in my vodka gimlet.
Powdered sugar...I had only ever considered sugar syrup with the fresh juice. Inneresting.
Discovered the lime daquiri over the holidays, which I adore, with or without rum (for some reason at this hotel lime daquiri defaulted to virgin, but at the volume I was indulging, plus the meds, probably for the best). CRACK.
Randomly, I get illogically annoyed when I can't see any movie I think of relatively soon on the cable. I have seen multiple references to High Society over the past couple of days, and is it on demand? No it is not. Bah.
Too bad I'm no longer in NY. That is one of my all-time favorites and most watched movies with my sister, along with
The Thin Man
and (inexplicably)
Shag: The Movie.
Shag, like the one where the girls take a roadtrip and do the dancing contest, and all that? I haven't seen that movie in YEARS, but we loved that movie in college! OMG, now I really want to see that again!!!
Mouth is watering over the notion of a lime daiquiri. I have a lime tree, but my son gobbles them up before I get a chance to indulge.
Are you back in the states, ita?
I haven't seen that movie in YEARS, but we loved that movie in college! OMG, now I really want to see that again!!!
Ditto ditto!! With the bevos and the free love and Malena being WAY out of control!
Please note that Shag is also unavailable to me at this time.
