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Kitten With… Ears!
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Jessica Savitch (Part One?)
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The Language Of Glove, 1879
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Signs Of The Times, 1945
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Still Dreaming Of The Burger King
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Kitten With… Ears!
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Jessica Savitch (Part One?)
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The Language Of Glove, 1879
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Signs Of The Times, 1945
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Still Dreaming Of The Burger King
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Jessica Savitch (Part One?)
I watched Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, starring Sela Ward, tonight. During commercial breaks, I Googled Jessica Savitch. To my surprise — and major disappointment — there’s not really…
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The Language Of Glove, 1879
Before there was today’s code for handkerchiefs, there were other fashion accessories used in courtship for communicating and flirting. There was the fan, of course, and, according to this article…
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Power Girdle
It’s quite nice to see a robust female form used to sell foundation garments realistically.
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Spotting Memories In Retro Radio Ads
Still nostalgic thinking about the old days in Milwaukee radio, I’ve been hanging out consuming The Halcyon Daze (I prefer using the “classic” interface for navigation, in case you visit…
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Of Tailgators, Radio & Retail
This is a vintage WKTI Tailgator pinback from 1983, featuring Old Style beer. It’s mere 1.75 inches, but oh the size of the memories it unleashes… If you’re of a…
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A Chilling Cold War Reminder Of The Freedom Of Media
Making Democracy Work & Grow: Practical Suggestions For Students, Teachers, Administrators, and Other Community Leaders, from the Federal Security Agency, Office of Education, Bulletin 1948 No 10, Oscar R. Ewing,…
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In Which Gardasil & I *Almost* Make The News (Or, Ethics In Medicine & Media)
Last week I watched The Republican Debate at the Reagan Library. I found myself astounded by the fact that these people with limited intellectual reasoning, if not limited intellectual functioning,…
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Magazine Equality: Stuff White People Worry Needlessly About
I get mail, paper and electronic. Today’s winner is this one: Hey, you sell and ship a lot of stuff, and you write about racism, so I’m tossing this question…
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Kitsch Slapped Link Round Up, Slappin’ It Feminist Style
Let’s walk — and read — shoulder to shoulder, my sisters… The first two posts that rather address a backwards feminism post at HuffPo: One at BUST and the other…
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Resist, And You Are Called Confrontational. Or Mentally Ill.
Remember the Nirvana song Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle? Here’s Kurt Cobain’s response to, “So why was Frances Farmer such an inspiration?” (Melody Maker, August 28th, 1993)…
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MTV Cared About Your Breasts
Over a decade before Rethink Breast Cancer & MTV News Canada launched (to public outcry; video), and the Women Rock! Girls & Guitars breast cancer benefit too, MTV had the…
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Happily Ever After?
In Wedded Blisters, Neely wonders if marriage is something she even wants to enter into. With the media, as she writes, “depicting marriage as this energy-sapping, miserable way of life,…
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How To Dress For Success: Suffragette Edition
In The Washington Post, November 1, 1909, an unidentified “London fashion designer” gets bitchy and judgmental about how suffragettes dress. Yes, even though I don’t know if this possibly fictitious…
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We All End Up Paying For It, Celebrities Or Not
Gawd I love Roseanne. There are about one million reasons to; here’s one more. A very special quote from a very special article, And I Should Know, Barr had published…
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Women’s Pages, Then & Now
You know, by now, that I collect horde vintage magazines, publications, newspapers, and other ephemera. (If not, please send me your recipe for Denial Sauce; the anti-women politics of the…
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Learning From The Washability Expert
Inside the pages of Modern Woman Magazine, A Magazine Published By The Ice Industry, (Volume 17, Number 1, 1948), an article on how to wash problem fabrics by Mrs. Jean…
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BBC Resumed Clowning Around
We Americans (at least those who watched NBC) had Marjorie Hellen, color TV “identification girl”; across the pond, BBC watchers had “Carole and the clown” test pattern. The test pattern,…
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Marjorie Hellen: “Identification Girl” The Ultimate Objectification Or Not?
Featured on the cover of People Today, September 22, 1954, was “Marjorie Hellen… TV’s Golden Girl.” Her story begins on page 55, filed under “People In TV,” Hellen’s story is…
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The View From Here, Part II
So, like Stacy (who gave birth during The View), I’ve spent the last few weeks as a Brand Ambassador for The View and thought I should share some of my…
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Too Many Babies, Not Enough Babies, WTF
The ladies of The View were not immune to the irony of having a show about infertility one day after the show with Nadya Suleman aka the Octomom. In their…
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The View From Here
Last week I became an official View Brand Ambassador, part of the Mom Central campaign for ABC Daytime. This means you’ll be hearing more from me on The View and…
