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Futurism in Reverse: Fax You Too! The facsimile machine festered for many years, finding use in very narrow niches, like diplomatic transmissions, until it arose as an alternative to the FedEx man in the 1980s. This picture shows a 1930s notion- to deliver the news to the home over the airwaves - sort of a harbinger of videotext and the World Wide Web. Feedback: Don't Lie to Me, Wonder Woman A recent book by Jill Lepore,  The Secret Life of Wonder Woman , looks at the life of the super amazon's weirdo creator. In his time he was a bit of a social revolutionary and polygamist.And a polygraphist, which is where feeback enters the story. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Blues View: BB hits the big road Pretty early I saw the guitar roots of Michael Bloomfield. BB on ABC. I would go back home and pretend I was BB (me 'playing' a tennis racket'). There is a lot of rumination on tru...

Bird's Words -Jack Vaughan

While the pictures from our New Years Poesy Party is developing down there at the drug store, I am going to partially recollect things from the blog from the year in non-chronological ordeal. In January I summoned a drawing memory brief of Soulville, the place on Main St., between the Rialto (where I saw King Kong vs. Godzilla) and the barber shop (where I saw George Wallace get a haircut). On the left was Jack, on the right was Norman. Norman on the right hipped me to blues . L to R: Jack, Norman. In February I ventured West. Good idea as the snow was piling ever higher in the East. T'wern't long after the passing of Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks. There in the sybaritic city by the bay, Jeff DeMark sang his ode to Ernie Banks , "Does that sound like work to you?" On same trip me and the boys had a night on the town. We didnt dance, you know, but the bluegrass dancers of the evening did make an impression, of which I am still mindful. "Did you see that ...

Simple Hamburgers Lyonnaise I found something a bit closer to meatloaf than hamburg in a Craig Claiborne tome. It called for 2 pounds of hamburg, to make 6 burgers (yikes!) - it was not terribly hard but it was not hamburger simple either. Julia Child had a similar recipe (but I think she called out wine instead of cream). This is an Americanized version, maybe something Howard Johnson's could have swung with.                                                                                                           -C. Bogle, 2015 1 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup finely chopped onion 1 pound ground beef 1/4 cup bread crumbs 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoons cream some oil (for pan) some flour (to sprinkle meat)...

"Hoffa" is a remarkable movie, an original and vivid cinematic work, but is that enough? I think it is. Others will have legitimate objections to the ways the film operates . - V. Canby, NYT, 1992 Jimmy prowled the dark road - a highway man looking for members to sign - Hoffa's ethos was to help the working man - dealing with the mob - that was just a practical matter - in this quest. And, yes - this can be faulted. But let it resound: When the rhubarb had begun, and with blood it was in flower -when the fisticuffs ensued - and the fruit packer depots were amok, alit and mad like a Brughel - Jimmy Hoffa jumped in with resolute punches. Trust that smile? He wouldn't ask you to - But to trust the man fighting along side? Well that's up to you.                                                        - Jack Vaughan