by Emmett Smith
Again, the late-modern images below of the 1920s and 1930s, from the You Tube archives, speak for themselves, and as we behold them it is clear that the late-modern age, and all that late-modernity was, for us has long
Archive for February, 2009
In Old New York In The Old Late-Modern Age
Posted in ANOTHER Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious! on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FAA Announcement
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett Smith
In the wake of the recent Hudson River incident, the
FAA is implementing new anti-bird
He Speaks Still to Us of Home
Posted in History & History-Making on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook
Now that many Americans in the mood of evangelical political repentance are dwelling on the gloomy topic of who may have been their ‘worst’ President, it is timely perhaps to revise a number of our wrong opinions of past leaders in the World. Indeed, and now that here in the pp of Bodwyn [...]
Axel And His Dog
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Emmett Smith
Anybody who was a kid in the Twin Cities in the 1950s doesn’t need to be told who this guy is!
In the first episode below posted by tasseltoes on YouTube, Axel tries out an unsuccessful duet with Tallulah
A Coolidge Picture Montage
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett R Smith
Below is a faceted and sometimes oblique picture montage about Calvin Coolidge by PMadstone, from the YouTube archive and interesting on its own terms. Coolidge, at times talkative in private, was a much-photographed study in practiced public taciturnity.
‘The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge’
part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpHTfEAM5M
part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAosDT_CDk0&feature=related
[Emmett R Smith all text-rights reserved 21 February 2009]
Presidential Historian Richard Norton Smith on Calvin Coolidge
Posted in by Bodwyn Wook on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook
Here follow the words from the YouTube archive, of presidential historian Richard Norton Smith on America’s 30th President, John Calvin
As Matters Stand Now: This Much Is True
Posted in As Matters Stand Now: on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Emmett R Smith
Any legal entity other than the individual citizen, when given equal rights or indeed preferred treatment in law, sooner or later must be the enemy of liberty and the well-being of human persons. The large corporation therefore, itself a legal fiction of government, is necessarily as often as government itself the ultimate [...]
The 1930s
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook
Molly agrees a first flight but the instructor, Eddie Fulton, is so tedious she holds up her husband for a Moth of her own. Molly IS a ‘clever girl!’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPCAn8WexHU&NR=1
[Emmett R Smith all text-rights reserved 20 February 2009]
Home Again
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook
[a sequel to 'The 1920s' -- ed]
‘Oh, Spanchetta, how was your golf outing?’
[more vintage aircraft pictures are to be seen at: http://www.bamuseum.com/ ]
‘Wayness, you’ve no conception whatsoever of the utter futility of these men! Horace quite bent the Moth on landing in France and I had to fly home in the Argosy…thank goodness for
The 1920s
Posted in Trains & Planes and "Getting There" on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook (and a big phooey! to Edmund Wilson)
This…
[DH60 Moth picture from the archives of: http://www.dhmothclub.co.uk/ ]
…is charming — aeroplaneing for all!
‘Let’s go golfing, Dear!’
‘Oh, Darling, and then we can pop over to Le Toquet and
