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November 19th, 2012

Coffee With an Architect

Women’s Magazines Then and Now - Interesting comparison. Women’s magazines bore me.

Bring back Twinkies - Hah! Finally a cause we can all believe in. (Or not. I actually don’t like Twinkies.)

Portraits of Flowers - Beautiful

News oops - Seriously, why do we even need the mainstream media anymore?

Belly Button Biodiversity - Scientific navel gazing?

Christmas: Cats’ point of view - Heh.

Archival Tendency - Beautiful and interesting images

Cherpumple - Hmmmm… I can’t decide if that looks heavenly or gross. I’m leaning toward the former, unfortunately.

Adidas vs. Puma - Interesting. (By the way, isn’t it funny that an old-fashioned word meaning shoemaker is also the name of a kind of dessert?)

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Nicole
November 19th, 2012 - 7:31 pm
Cherpumple… I like the name. And the idea of a pie in a cake intrigues me. Not sure that 3 at once do much for me, though.
Hippie
November 20th, 2012 - 1:14 am
The woman on the modern day Vogue magazine is hideous.
Lynn
November 20th, 2012 - 7:43 am
She looks like an evil alien from a low budget sci-fi movie.
Andrea Harris
November 21st, 2012 - 10:51 am
I think the saddest transformation from then and now is Redbook’s — it used to be a literary magazine, and now it’s just another “Lose Weight Decorate Your House Cook A 5-Course Meal Have Babies Raise Your Man!” rag. Also notice how the then Seventeen Magazine featured a girl — a member of its readership — on the cover, and today’s version has a group of young attractive males — i.e., what young girls should learn to focus on instead of themselves. And the past is supposed to be more sexist than now.
RJ Evans
December 2nd, 2012 - 2:40 pm
Thanks for the link to Kuriositas - glad you enjoyed the article about 1910s America in color. When I first saw the pictures I knew I had to share!

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