Weekend 200.1

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Winston Smith

Found a pamphlet from the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair at the Housatonic Model Railroad Club / Fairfield Historical Society train show this morning. From the pamphlet Retracing The Growth of Continue Reading →

Weekend 200.0 (Post NYCC)

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) MTA Swipes Show Subway Trends (WSJ) Wait for the A train at the Aqueduct Racetrack stop, and one in four people standing with you will likely be a senior Continue Reading →

Weekend 199.1

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Winston Smith

“There are a lot of people like that. They do no little harm by virtue of their sheer, stupid inertia, lost in between all camps, in the no-man’s-land of their Continue Reading →

Weekend 198.0

Posted on October 1, 2011 by

(1) Rachel Field “Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria used in the Disney film Fantasia (film).” (1a) Walt Disney’s Ave Maria (2) Continue Reading →

PDP-1

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Winston Smith

Excerpts from Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: The museum’s bottom level, located in the planet core, was a spherical room containing a shrine to the very first videogame, Tennis Continue Reading →

Weekend 196.0

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Winston Smith

(1) Bookish Good Looks (WSJ) My favorite look is a collected-over-time weave of hardbacks, sculpture, mementos, art and bookends—the bits and pieces of a curious and full life. And the Continue Reading →

Lilly Belle

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Winston Smith

Just as he loved to play soda jerk, he loved to play engineer. He would don an engineer’s cap and a plaid shirt, straddle the tender behind the engine, which Continue Reading →

Weekend 194.1

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Winston Smith

“Perhaps the hard truth was this: New Yorkers had never come to really love Penn Station. Charles Follen McKim, an architect rankled by the very skyscrapers, crowds, and cacophony that Continue Reading →

194X

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Winston Smith

Planning in this sense is analogous to historical fiction, but unlike the backward-looking literary genre, its clipped narrative creates an anticipatory endpoint. It romances the nostalgic future, a potential urban Continue Reading →

Weekend 193.1

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Winston Smith

To put this in plain terms, Americans and their institutions have tended to choose the self-interest and individualism of the free market over the nationalized model more prevalent in postwar Continue Reading →

Limestone Roof

Our history now descends from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust.

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