- From Cracked: six places you’ll recognize from the background of many movies and TV shows. About the Quality Café not being a real diner anymore, I understand and am happy for the owner making money off movies and TV, but of course I want to see golden-era things ‘alive’, in use, a time machine so the past is present. Like Walt’s here (being renovated; yikes!). (Why I wanted to deport Gordon Ramsay after he ripped up the 1963 Capri restaurant on ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ when it only needed a good cleaning.)
- From Takimag: Bridgeport, Conn. 60 years ago. Diversity before ‘diversity’.
- From LRC: Buchanan on Hagel.
- From The Woman and the Dragon: playas vs. sluts. She’s an interesting feminine conservative Protestant complement to Roissy: same unflinching, perennial conservative view of fallen humanity particularly the sexes; same love of the gift of sexuality. He has more bluster (masculine) and no religion. He agrees though that a playa paradise, sin city celebrating mankind’s fallenness, is in the long run bad for society.
Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
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Re: playas vs. sluts
ReplyDeleteIf true, then the human race is doomed.
Without the Cross, of course the human race is doomed. But we knew that until we stopped taking Genesis seriously.
ReplyDeleteShame Walt's look had to go as I'm sure they're not going to retain the original setup after such an extensive renovation (perhaps 'rebuilding' would better describe it since by the looks of the photos it's been taken down to bare-bones structure).
ReplyDeleteMy hope is that they will also trash the schlocky and contrived pseudo-fifties plastic Coke decorations they added in recent years to give it a retro look (!?). Only figurines of a leather jacketed Henry Winkler on the curio shelves or a poster of bobby soxer in a poodle skirt at a malt shop with her guy could have looked worse.
Only the real stuff from the immediate post WWII era passes. It can't be copied or improved on, as in the case of Walt's "embellishment". And when it's gone, it's gone for good.
I stepped into "Nifty Fifties" only once, almost 20 years ago. I asked about the strings of tiny plastic Union Jacks that decorated the place. The kid serving the counter as a soda jerk told me it was the for the current theme which was celebrating the British invasion.
I never went back.
You are very kind, sir, to keep linking to me despite that first time when all the ladies got their panties in a twist.
ReplyDelete@ Flambeaux
Yes, we must read Genesis, but also Deuteronomy 22:13-29 and Ephesians 5:22-33. Our God took the sins of the playas and sluts very seriously. Christians today? Meh, not so much.
Blessings,
sunshinemary