February 14, 2008 – 8:40 am
Paleo-Future has a number of images of postcards from the Seattle World’s Fair of 1962. Nifty stuff.
I’ve decided that World’s Fair posts are good luck, so you may have to suffer through a few more until I hear about that job.
February 13, 2008 – 11:59 am
At the end of a job interview today, I was shown two souvenirs from the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Too bad I’m slightly dimwitted, that would have been a great job.
February 2, 2008 – 8:10 am
Viktor Schreckengost dies at the age of 101.
Mr. Schreckengost was widely considered among the most democratic industrial designers. He made, quite literally, the stuff of life — things found routinely in homes, backyards and garages in this country and around the world. He designed bicycles for Sears and everyday china for American Limoges. He designed […]
January 27, 2008 – 10:28 am
Hands down, by a country mile, and without fear of contradiction or error, I am declaring the film Once to be the best movie of 2007, possibly the best move to date of the decade. the Irish busker movie has won the highly-coveted Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog Trinket of Conspicuous Distinction.
It is so good, that […]
January 13, 2008 – 4:45 pm
A sidebar to a story about the local mortgage industry (“Area mortgage industry battered again in 2007″) listed the the largest mortgages recorded in Lucas County in 2007. Of the four listed, I did the research on two (numbers 1 and 3, if you were wondering) for a total just a hair over of $28 […]
January 1, 2008 – 6:59 pm
If Lee Bay were to announce that X=2, I would accept it without question.
December 31, 2007 – 4:38 pm
I’m sorry the website was down yesterday and today — I forgot to renew the domain douglasanders.com. No disaster or financial shortfall, just an oversight.
But, sadly, the world did not cry out in terror — it would have been nice if there had been some sort of global freak-out. Damn.
December 22, 2007 – 8:38 am
You know, I do this whole newsblog thing gratis, slaving away everyday, with, frankly, little thanks.
So, if one of you — or two or three in concert, could buy me this, I’d be very thankful.
December 1, 2007 – 1:13 pm
I think I just heard a Celine Dion version of Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”.
This too high a price to pay for free speech.
The world is dark place indeed when you can’t even trust Canada.
November 29, 2007 – 11:07 am
Sunday’s Tribune ran Blair Kamin’s review of the new Spertus institute of Jewish Studies, ready to open to the public on South Michigan. Worth reading on its own, it included this heartening passage:
At the time, architects fumed that giving city bureaucrats tight rein over this so-called Historic Michigan Boulevard District, which includes such masterpieces as […]