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LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Cold and rainy, as if spring was a chained dog that reached the end of its tether and was snapped back. Made for a quiet office. Friday + chill = absolutely no one going in. It will be so after the . . . what to call it? The Great Return? LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS LILEKS (James) :: Motel Postcards. HACIENDA MOTEL, Bakersfield CA. This is a blow-up of an inset photo - the card had 3 Haciendas. I don't think any survive. This location was 251 S. Union Avenue, and the neighborhood looks battered and downscale now. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MATCHBOOKS "Heidsik" is the best description of sloe gin's after effects as you're ever likely to find. Available at "any state store." Sounds a bit too Soviet for my taste. LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Cold and rainy, as if spring was a chained dog that reached the end of its tether and was snapped back. Made for a quiet office. Friday + chill = absolutely no one going in. It will be so after the . . . what to call it? The Great Return? LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS LILEKS (James) :: Motel Postcards. HACIENDA MOTEL, Bakersfield CA. This is a blow-up of an inset photo - the card had 3 Haciendas. I don't think any survive. This location was 251 S. Union Avenue, and the neighborhood looks battered and downscale now. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MATCHBOOKS "Heidsik" is the best description of sloe gin's after effects as you're ever likely to find. Available at "any state store." Sounds a bit too Soviet for my taste. LILEKS (JAMES) :: ABOUT Born Fargo ND, 1958. Grew up in a turquoise rambler with boomerang-patterned Formica. (Hence, more or less, this site.) Lived in Minneapolis since 1976, with a four-year tour of duty in Washington DC. Presently I am: a columnist for the Star-Tribune. Author of many books, including The Gallery of Regrettable Food. I wanted to be anarchitect.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: STAGWORLD! Man's Life, December 1960 . For Men Only, September 1963. Sir!, February 1962. Laff, October. 1952 . Man to Man, February 1953 . Focus, March 1957 . Sir, July 1950 LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE GOBBLER Imagine the pitch to the investors: "It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: GALLERY :: ART OF THE Let them eat cow hooves. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 50S :: ADS Does the pink stove represent the decade? No. And yes? Both? If this sections tells you nothing else, it should give you a sense of the evolution of color and style. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MAIN STREETS LESLIE. The ground floor and the windows were abused by time and malice and the desire to improve, but the structure still has its character intact, somehow. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 THURSDAY Wikipedia:. Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. Aged into amischevious fellow.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The French would test until 1996. About the publisher: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 1924, in Paris – 7 November 2006, in Fécamp), was a French journalist andpolitician.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MISC :: SWIMSUITS 1962 This is not an illustration from a “Bulemia for Dummies” manual.Although I don’t know what she’s doing, really; pulling out a strand of corn hair from her mouth, maybe. Or eating those “air cucumbers” that were popular with the diet set in 1962. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS DELLS MANOR, Wisconsin Dells WI "We have TV in our Motel,” says the message from the guest. Lots of blather about this and that, but the author felt compelled to add those words perpendicular to her message,at the top.
LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS 2021 UPDATE Begun! Start here. Also, new design for this page. 2020 End-of-year news: the main list of motel names now has a State menu that goes directly to the list of motels! Finally! Nostalgia for old motels, like most forms of nostalgia, is selective and dishonest. We like to imagine a pure world before the soulless hotel chains took over, a landscape of lovely neon, local charm, and LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Cold and rainy, as if spring was a chained dog that reached the end of its tether and was snapped back. Made for a quiet office. Friday + chill = absolutely no one going in. It will be so after the . . . what to call it? The Great Return? LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS 2021 UPDATE Begun! Start here. Also, new design for this page. 2020 End-of-year news: the main list of motel names now has a State menu that goes directly to the list of motels! Finally! Nostalgia for old motels, like most forms of nostalgia, is selective and dishonest. We like to imagine a pure world before the soulless hotel chains took over, a landscape of lovely neon, local charm, and LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Cold and rainy, as if spring was a chained dog that reached the end of its tether and was snapped back. Made for a quiet office. Friday + chill = absolutely no one going in. It will be so after the . . . what to call it? The Great Return? LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: ABOUT Born Fargo ND, 1958. Grew up in a turquoise rambler with boomerang-patterned Formica. (Hence, more or less, this site.) Lived in Minneapolis since 1976, with a four-year tour of duty in Washington DC. Presently I am: a columnist for the Star-Tribune. Author of many books, including The Gallery of Regrettable Food. I wanted to be anarchitect.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: STAGWORLD! Man's Life, December 1960 . For Men Only, September 1963. Sir!, February 1962. Laff, October. 1952 . Man to Man, February 1953 . Focus, March 1957 . Sir, July 1950 LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE GOBBLER Imagine the pitch to the investors: "It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: GALLERY :: JELL-O LILEKS (James) :: Institute :: Gallery :: JELL-O. We don't have Vermeers in the eary 20th century, but we have these artists. The skill of the early Jell-O booklets is something that deserves our attention and admiration; here's something quite simple and, well, boring - but the skill devoted to ennobling the humble substance is atriumph of
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE INSTITUTE :: COMICS :: NEWSPAPER FUNNIES LILEKS (James) :: the Institute :: Comics :: Newspaper Funnies LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 50S :: ADS Does the pink stove represent the decade? No. And yes? Both? If this sections tells you nothing else, it should give you a sense of the evolution of color and style. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The French would test until 1996. About the publisher: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 1924, in Paris – 7 November 2006, in Fécamp), was a French journalist andpolitician.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 THURSDAY Wikipedia:. Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. Aged into amischevious fellow.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MISC :: SWIMSUITS 1962 This is not an illustration from a “Bulemia for Dummies” manual.Although I don’t know what she’s doing, really; pulling out a strand of corn hair from her mouth, maybe. Or eating those “air cucumbers” that were popular with the diet set in 1962. LILEKS (JAMES) :: COMICS :: GLUYAS Anger, annoyance, and resignation. LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Cold and rainy, as if spring was a chained dog that reached the end of its tether and was snapped back. Made for a quiet office. Friday + chill = absolutely no one going in. It will be so after the . . . what to call it? The Great Return? LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY If you're curious, this was an ad for a new miracle fabric that repelled water, and did so SCIENTIFICALLY. I love the innocent 50s. Took Daughter to the passport office. She has to renew in person because she was underae when she got her last passport. LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION There was a time I thought this place was the height of gauche and kitsch, and while that's still the case . . . I've grown to love it. Go HERE.. The websi t e that put lileks.com on the map for its 15 minutes. New updates in 2021! LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Cold and rainy, as if spring was a chained dog that reached the end of its tether and was snapped back. Made for a quiet office. Friday + chill = absolutely no one going in. It will be so after the . . . what to call it? The Great Return? LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY If you're curious, this was an ad for a new miracle fabric that repelled water, and did so SCIENTIFICALLY. I love the innocent 50s. Took Daughter to the passport office. She has to renew in person because she was underae when she got her last passport. LILEKS (JAMES) :: ABOUT Born Fargo ND, 1958. Grew up in a turquoise rambler with boomerang-patterned Formica. (Hence, more or less, this site.) Lived in Minneapolis since 1976, with a four-year tour of duty in Washington DC. Presently I am: a columnist for the Star-Tribune. Author of many books, including The Gallery of Regrettable Food. I wanted to be anarchitect.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The LeHavre expansion was just the latest addition.. From 1825 until 1865, the capacity of ocean-going vessels doubled, and steamships began to call at the Port of Le Havre. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 TUESDAY I was walking to the office, listening to an audiobook. It’s a functional account of the last days of the V2 program, by Robert Harris. It has the same rote passivity and quotidian detail as the last book of his I didn’t finish; it’s like watching someone conduct a orchestra by handcuffing his wrists to the podium and directing the action with his forefingers. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Damned strange week, but in the end, joyous. Really! Dog survived, did all my work, weather's great, Daughter made a fantastic dinner,everyone's happy.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The French would test until 1996. About the publisher: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 1924, in Paris – 7 November 2006, in Fécamp), was a French journalist andpolitician.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 50S :: ADS Does the pink stove represent the decade? No. And yes? Both? If this sections tells you nothing else, it should give you a sense of the evolution of color and style. LILEKS (JAMES) :: 20S :: MAGAZINE ADS What's missing? Go on take a look, think on it. What's missing? That's right: a brand. A trade organization sponsored it on behalf of the general goodness of Pineapple, which you may now secure in two forms. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MISC :: SWIMSUITS 1962 This is not an illustration from a “Bulemia for Dummies” manual.Although I don’t know what she’s doing, really; pulling out a strand of corn hair from her mouth, maybe. Or eating those “air cucumbers” that were popular with the diet set in 1962. LILEKS (JAMES) :: COMICS :: GLUYAS Anger, annoyance, and resignation. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS DELLS MANOR, Wisconsin Dells WI "We have TV in our Motel,” says the message from the guest. Lots of blather about this and that, but the author felt compelled to add those words perpendicular to her message,at the top.
LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Disco dreck with a guitar solo that wouldn’t be out of place in another genre. That was 1979, in the Fun Culture. But listen to the music used for NASA’s 1975 documentary. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY If you're curious, this was an ad for a new miracle fabric that repelled water, and did so SCIENTIFICALLY. I love the innocent 50s. Took Daughter to the passport office. She has to renew in person because she was underae when she got her last passport. LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Disco dreck with a guitar solo that wouldn’t be out of place in another genre. That was 1979, in the Fun Culture. But listen to the music used for NASA’s 1975 documentary. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY If you're curious, this was an ad for a new miracle fabric that repelled water, and did so SCIENTIFICALLY. I love the innocent 50s. Took Daughter to the passport office. She has to renew in person because she was underae when she got her last passport. LILEKS (JAMES) :: ABOUT Born Fargo ND, 1958. Grew up in a turquoise rambler with boomerang-patterned Formica. (Hence, more or less, this site.) Lived in Minneapolis since 1976, with a four-year tour of duty in Washington DC. Presently I am: a columnist for the Star-Tribune. Author of many books, including The Gallery of Regrettable Food. I wanted to be anarchitect.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: COMICS :: GLUYAS Anger, annoyance, and resignation. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MISC :: SWIMSUITS 1962 This is not an illustration from a “Bulemia for Dummies” manual.Although I don’t know what she’s doing, really; pulling out a strand of corn hair from her mouth, maybe. Or eating those “air cucumbers” that were popular with the diet set in 1962. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The French would test until 1996. About the publisher: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 1924, in Paris – 7 November 2006, in Fécamp), was a French journalist andpolitician.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Damned strange week, but in the end, joyous. Really! Dog survived, did all my work, weather's great, Daughter made a fantastic dinner,everyone's happy.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Above is what it looks like from the inside.. The enwoodening of downtown continues. I wonder what spurred some of the buildings to finally board up. Perhaps it’s just a LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 TUESDAY Well: Zonophone (early on also rendered as Zon-O-Phone) was a record label founded in 1899 in Camden, New Jersey, by Frank Seaman. The Zonophone name was not that of the company but was applied to records and machines sold by Seaman from 1899–1903. LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS DELLS MANOR, Wisconsin Dells WI "We have TV in our Motel,” says the message from the guest. Lots of blather about this and that, but the author felt compelled to add those words perpendicular to her message,at the top.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It was a fine weekend, I think. Mostly a blur of rearranging green things. A large number of helicopter seed-things from the . . . I guess they’re called trees, I’m not an expert here - had carpeted the driveway and sidewalk, and I was bade to remove them with theblower.
LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION There was a time I thought this place was the height of gauche and kitsch, and while that's still the case . . . I've grown to love it. Go HERE.. The websi t e that put lileks.com on the map for its 15 minutes. New updates in 2021! LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MATCHBOOKS "Heidsik" is the best description of sloe gin's after effects as you're ever likely to find. Available at "any state store." Sounds a bit too Soviet for my taste. LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION There was a time I thought this place was the height of gauche and kitsch, and while that's still the case . . . I've grown to love it. Go HERE.. The websi t e that put lileks.com on the map for its 15 minutes. New updates in 2021! LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY Bio: De Felitta's first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next novel, Audrey Rose (1975). LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2021 FRIDAY. This is the baseline: Today, no one there. But there will be. The chairs came out yesterday, along with the stools surrounding the new bar under the skyway. I watched them build the bar during the lockdown / quarantine whatever, when any sign of improvement downtown seemed like someone painting a house LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The deets: During this time, the defendant and his wife (the deceased) built a home adjoining the home of the Stokes at an approximate costof $18,000.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: MATCHBOOKS "Heidsik" is the best description of sloe gin's after effects as you're ever likely to find. Available at "any state store." Sounds a bit too Soviet for my taste. LILEKS (JAMES) :: ABOUT Born Fargo ND, 1958. Grew up in a turquoise rambler with boomerang-patterned Formica. (Hence, more or less, this site.) Lived in Minneapolis since 1976, with a four-year tour of duty in Washington DC. Presently I am: a columnist for the Star-Tribune. Author of many books, including The Gallery of Regrettable Food. I wanted to be anarchitect.
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE INSTITUTE :: COMICS :: NEWSPAPER FUNNIES LILEKS (James) :: the Institute :: Comics :: Newspaper Funnies LILEKS (JAMES) :: 70S :: RADIO Selections from the days when the top-of--the-hour news went a solid five minutes with interminable reports over the phone from Cairo. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: GALLERY :: JELL-O LILEKS (James) :: Institute :: Gallery :: JELL-O. We don't have Vermeers in the eary 20th century, but we have these artists. The skill of the early Jell-O booklets is something that deserves our attention and admiration; here's something quite simple and, well, boring - but the skill devoted to ennobling the humble substance is atriumph of
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE GOBBLER Imagine the pitch to the investors: "It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 50S :: ADS Does the pink stove represent the decade? No. And yes? Both? If this sections tells you nothing else, it should give you a sense of the evolution of color and style. LILEKS (JAMES) :: 30S :: MODERN STORY BOOK Let's just say this children's book was published before the unpleasantness at Lynnhurst, New Jersey. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The French would test until 1996. About the publisher: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 1924, in Paris – 7 November 2006, in Fécamp), was a French journalist andpolitician.
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LILEKS (JAMES) :: COMICS :: GLUYAS Anger, annoyance, and resignation. LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE EIGHTIES :: SEARS 1983 Yes, it was awesome.. Also, terrifying! Any minute now, nuclear war. Oh, and by the way, sex is fatal now. That said, it was everything you remember, or everything you heard, and so much less. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 60S The 70s, site, that was the tween and teen time, and it was ugly and dumb. The 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s sites - anthropological projects. The 60s, though - my parents' time, and mine as well. The first version was called "Up, Up, and Awry - the Twilight of the Grownups." You know, the Mad Men types, the ones who enjoyed a remarkable level ofcomfort
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE OUGHTS & 10S All of the decade categories are rather arbitrary, of course. One year’s traditions and innovations bled into the next. It’s wrong to put the Oughts and the Tens into the same category, since 1919 was quite different from 1901, but I don’t have enough material to justify two sites, so I’m lumping it all together and committing asin
LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE INSTITUTE :: COMICS :: NEWSPAPER FUNNIES LILEKS (James) :: the Institute :: Comics :: Newspaper Funnies LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES)THE BLEAT IS EN ROUTEINSTITUTE What is the Institute?A good question. It began as a repository for odd things I scanned - and by “scanned,” I mean I took pictures with a video camera, and used a frame grabber to get the images. LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE OF OFFICIAL CHEERTHE 70SJAMESTHE DORCUS COLLECTIONTHE PECULIAR ART OF MR. FRAHMDAYALETSENGLISH FASHION I n 1949, the Sunbeam Bread company put out a comic book to get kids to eat bread. Their secret weapon: an interminable history lesson that tied the jobs of iron miners and classical violinists to your toast. LINK. A salute to everything deeply creepy about 50s LILEKS (JAMES) :: INSTITUTE :: THE GALLERY OF REGRETTABLE FOOD This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide tosup on a
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE EIGHTIES :: SEARS 1983 Yes, it was awesome.. Also, terrifying! Any minute now, nuclear war. Oh, and by the way, sex is fatal now. That said, it was everything you remember, or everything you heard, and so much less. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 60S The 70s, site, that was the tween and teen time, and it was ugly and dumb. The 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s sites - anthropological projects. The 60s, though - my parents' time, and mine as well. The first version was called "Up, Up, and Awry - the Twilight of the Grownups." You know, the Mad Men types, the ones who enjoyed a remarkable level ofcomfort
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE OUGHTS & 10S All of the decade categories are rather arbitrary, of course. One year’s traditions and innovations bled into the next. It’s wrong to put the Oughts and the Tens into the same category, since 1919 was quite different from 1901, but I don’t have enough material to justify two sites, so I’m lumping it all together and committing asin
LILEKS (JAMES) :: URBAN STUDIES ::FARGO Fargo, North Dakota, 1950 - the middle of town in the middle of the midwest in the middle of the century. Almost everything you see here still stands. And almost everything you see is gone. Take a look at this picture, and tell yourself that things are better today. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE INSTITUTE :: COMICS :: NEWSPAPER FUNNIES LILEKS (James) :: the Institute :: Comics :: Newspaper Funnies LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 MONDAY It’s one of those things Reply All used to do before the show exploded in a shower of guts: Yes Yes No. As in, I get that part, and that part, but not that part.I had to explain Cinnamon Toast Crunch Shrimp Tail guy, the fact that he was subsequently cancelled for abuse, why this was a Milkshake Duck, and what’s more, what this . . . this guy had to do with it. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 FRIDAY Yesterday I was walking through the skyway that connects the 333 to the Amerprise building. At the end of the skyway was the custodian. He roams slowly through LILEKS (JAMES) :: MOTEL POSTCARDS 2021 UPDATE Begun! Start here. Also, new design for this page. 2020 End-of-year news: the main list of motel names now has a State menu that goes directly to the list of motels! Finally! Nostalgia for old motels, like most forms of nostalgia, is selective and dishonest. We like to imagine a pure world before the soulless hotel chains took over, a landscape of lovely neon, local charm, and LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 60S The 70s, site, that was the tween and teen time, and it was ugly and dumb. The 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s sites - anthropological projects. The 60s, though - my parents' time, and mine as well. The first version was called "Up, Up, and Awry - the Twilight of the Grownups." You know, the Mad Men types, the ones who enjoyed a remarkable level ofcomfort
LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 20S Confident, wealthy, and young: the American century starts to hit its stride! And promptly sits down for a drink and a show. Every decade has its own cliches: the Thirties were Depressed, the Forties were full of pitch-together patriotism, the Fifties were Cheerful, the Sixties Turbulent, and so on.There’s truth in the generalities, but the cliches drive out competing views, and stick LILEKS (JAMES) :: INTERIOR DESECRATORS Welcome back to Interior Desecrations, a brutal examination of the unlovely, unattractive, unlivable and unforgivable homes of the 1970s. All eras have some bad taste, of course – but it took the 70s to make bad taste triumphant and universal. It took the 70s to convince everyone to stick foil wallpaper on the wall, paint the bathtub purple LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE 40S The 40s were more than WW2. There was the question of how to plan your kitchen once international fascism had been defeated. Start HERE. Oh, they had color, but we're concerned with Black and White. Go HERE. A song per year, chosen almost entirely at random from my collection. Coming later in 2020. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE GOBBLER Imagine the pitch to the investors: "It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will beLILEKS (JAMES)
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LILEKS (JAMES) :: COMICS :: GLUYAS Anger, annoyance, and resignation. LILEKS (JAMES) :: 30S :: MODERN STORY BOOK Let's just say this children's book was published before the unpleasantness at Lynnhurst, New Jersey. LILEKS (JAMES) :: THE BLEAT 2021 WEDNESDAY The French would test until 1996. About the publisher: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (13 February 1924, in Paris – 7 November 2006, in Fécamp), was a French journalist andpolitician.
Welcome! If this is your first visit, you might be a bit confused. There’s a certain homogeneous look to personal / promotional websites, based on popular Wordpress templates. The big hero image, the sidebar, the boxes with icons and big text, all that crap. Or there’s something quite spare, with a picture of the host in acircle.
What is _this_ thing? Simple: The anteroom of the internet’s most diverse, idiosyncratic, and individually curated pop-culture museum. Note: that’s the last time I’ll use “curated.” It’s pretentious. But it’s true! I am pretentious. Also, this site is a one-man effort, assembled over two decades, its innumerable sub-sites gathered together under general, vague rubrics. It’s not some idle project, occasionally updated. The Bleat, a blog that’s celebrating its 21st year, contains a M-F essay, some piece of old commercial ephemera, a rotating feature on everything from cliffhanger serials to old radio to main street America to the ads of the 1930s or 1970s, and a link to the daily site update. And that's just the blog. Scroll down for the total enormity. I hope you enjoy the site. Twenty-two years, and counting.Lileks
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> As time went on, anything that was “vintage” or “retro” and > could be gently mocked went into the Institute.>
> HERE'S the main page . At present, the > Institute contains these sites:>
> The Gallery of Regrettable Food. The > classic from 1997, it spawned two books. Still updated - with a huge > addition in 2019.>
> Interior Desecrations: bad interior > design of the 60s and 70s.>
> The Gobbler: the Grooviest Motel in > Wisconsin. Redone in 2019.>
> The Art of Art Frahm : the effect of > celery on underwear elastic.>
> The 70s : a brief account (only 100 pages > so far) of the worst decade ever. Also linked in the 20th century> project.
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> The Permanent Collection of Impermanent Art > : what if we treated advertising > illustration with the same pretentious analysis we use for museum> art?
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> Comic Sins : a small name for a > huge site. It contains:>
>> Advertising in Comics . >> Arranged by genre, of course, for all the anal-retentive types out>> there.
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>> Covers : an ongoing site. >> There are lots of sites on the web that post old covers, and this >> without question is one of them.>>
>> The Funny Pages . A study >> of old newspaper and magazine cartoons. Contains several subsites:>>
>>> Lance Lawson , a >>> short-lived Minneapolis you-solve-it strip>>>
>>> Mr. Coffeenerves>>> , a real
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>>> Jerry on the Job , >>> a 1920s gag strip that used the flip-take a bit too much>>>
>>> High-Pressure Pete>>> , another
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>>> Scoop, the Cub Reporter >>> . From the WW1>>> era.
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>>> Briggs .
>>> Influential and popular 19teens cartoonist. Through 2019.>>>
>>> Worst Comics Ever. >>> In my opinion. >>> Includes a bad Spirit someone was kind enough to show to Will>>> Eisner.
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>>> Abian Wallgren >>> : his WW1 >>> soldier comics.>>>
>>> Caspar Milquetoast>>> : an
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>>> Gluyas Williams : >>> also an appreciation.>>>
>>> King Features>>> : the
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>>> Miscellaneous>>> comics.
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> Wisconsin Vacation Adventures. Hi > ho, it's off to the Dells. (Plus the Ozarks)>
> Gentleman Jim: story of a Canadian> Meat Man.
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> Stagworld! Ooky old men’s mags. > Closest thing this site comes to for NSFW.>
> Compupromo : promotional art for > the old calculating machines.>
> The Nervine Joke Book . 1920s > hardy-har compendium.>
> East is Red, Butt is Numb. Postcards > celebrating Chinese Opera. Really.>
> Dorcus Collection : Unfortunate > men’s fashions.>
> Story of Bread: 1949 Promotional > Brochure about the wonders of bread.>
> Meet the Dayalets! Creepy undead > vitamin illustrations.>
> Dateline: Kennel Dogs in newspapers.>
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>> SCI-FI COVERS Illustrations from the days >> of rockets and cheap paperbacks. Updated in 2016.>>
>> FRANK READE JR . A look at the 19th >> century Tom Swift.>>
>> Big Tiny Little : his life in album art.>>
>> The SS Lurline : an old cruise ship>> brochure.
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>> Migny : a 70s Paris hotel brochure.>>
>> A Girl in NYC : She sent a friend a >> letter in the 1920s.>>
>> Postcard Portfolios : The art of the >> souvenir brochure>>
>> Missing : ads from people looking for >> long-lost friends in the 1940s>>
>> 1960s Hardware Circulars. That >> about says it, no?>>
>> Goodbye to Telegrams : the forgotten >> art of telegrams.>>
>> Short History of Swimsuits . Old >> news-service photos of bathing beauties.>>
>> The Letters from the Antique Store . A tale >> told in ephemera.>>
>> Hotel Stationery . Engravings and current >> views, if possible.>>
>> 1953 Buick : a gorgeous brochure for the >> year’s models.>>
>> Labels and Caps .>> Just that.
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>> Radio promotional books. So far, just WNAX.>>
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>> XMAS in 1960s women's mags .>>
>> MOVED, and not on the index page, but still lurking:>>
>> 1961 Monkey Wards : Almost every color >> picture in the catalog, with more than 130 pages.>>
>> A week in TV Guide . Every page of a >> 1967 issue, embedded with links to YouTube residue.>>
>> LA 1962 : Every page of a dining guide, >> embedded with links and pictures to whatever remains from the last >> days of the post-war world.>>
>> LA 1941 : An earlier version of the dining>> guide.
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>> The American Motel. The great signs of the >> days before the chains changed everything. Ongoing throughout the>> year..
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>> Coffee and Chrome : old restaurant postcards.>>
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>> keep forgetting about this site. It’s a salute to wavy lines in >> tiny pictures! It’s odd to forget something like this, because >> it has approximately 13 bazillion pages.>>
>>> Curious Lucre : the money of other lands. I >>> won’t break them out by nations, but there’s about 50.>>>
>>> The Gallery of Corporate Allegory . The >>> art of Stock Certificates.>>>
>>> First-Day Covers : lots of vignettes >>> of people, places, and events celebrated by the Postal Service. >>> It’s not as dull as it sounds.>>>
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>> Cities Old and New. Some of these sites are new; others are in >> need of a refresh. We have:>>
>>> Minneapolis . It has old views >>> , present view s, and the U >>> of M. Currently undergoing a site-wide>>> overhaul.
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>>> New York . Old postcard views of >>> office buildings and hotels; a look >>> at Times Square; some of my shots.>>>
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>>> Ghost Ads . Faded pictures painted on >>> brick walls.>>>
>>> Main Streets . Bygone town >>> centers before the malls emptied them out.>>>
>>> Main Streets at Night : neon!>>>
>>> Malls of Yore : 1960s mall postcards.>>>
>>> Modern Churches : modernism applied to >>> religious structures.>>>
>>> Small-Town NODAK: Google street views >>> of old, tiny downtowns on the edge of America.>>>
>>> Main street on Google Street Views . Links to >>> the ongoing Bleat feature celebrating the greatest documentary >>> project of the 21st century.>>>
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>> I’ll get around to all of them eventually, I hope. For now there >> are four decades under consideration.>>
>> The Oughts & Tens . New in 2019, and >> underpopulated.>>
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>> The Twenties . Ongoing at present; magazines >> cover s, and a rather significant selection of >> movie ads from Film Daily magazine, >> and some spicy - but SFW ->> publications.
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>> The Thirties.>>
>>> Sears 1934: 100 pages from the >>> catalog, scanned, color-corrected, and annotated.>>>
>>> Magazine ads . I don’t know how >>> many, exactly. Over 200.>>>
>>> Bygone hooch . A site devoted to brands >>> that have passed from memory.>>>
>>> A kitchen brochure . What things >>> looked like.>>>
>>> Magazine covers.>>>
>>> Music . Playlists of the hits of each>>> year.
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>>> The 1933 World's Fair . Yeah, >>> we need another site about this - but it has some stuff you >>> might not have seen.>>
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>> The Forties.
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>>> Patriotica : a big collection of WW2 >>> ads , brochures for the home >>> front , and>>> more.
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>>> Childhood magazines.>>>
>>> Non-war cultural ephemera , like wallpaper >>> catalogs , 1941 Gudie to LA >>> , Homemaker's Guide >>> , and more.>>
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>> The Sixties. The Twilight of the Grown-Ups. >> You'll find sites with these topics:>>
>>> Ads . Of course.>>>
>>> Catalogs . Huge! Two year of fashion.>>>
>>> Dream Homes . A collection of rambler art.>>>
>>> LA Dining 1962>>>
>>> Chain Store Age . An industry periodical.>>>
>>> World's Fair 1964. There are >>> bigger sites, I'm sure.>>>
>>> Circulars . Meant to be tossed, but >>> someone kept them.>>>
>>> Radio spots . A few brisk examples of >>> period shilling.>>>
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>> The 70s Lots of brown horrors. We have:>>
>>> The Ice Follies . Three years of>>> programs.
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>>> The Faces of Match Game . Says it>>> all.
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>>> The Faces of the Price is Right. The >>> hairstyles!>>>
>>> Punk 77: how to be a punk>>>
>>> Search . My favorite show when I was a>>> kid.
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>>> Sears 1973: a small selection of>>> fashion.
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>>> Sears 1976: Bicentennial styles.>>>
>>> Bad Cartoons: Saturday morning>>> horrors.
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>>> Swoon, girls: Odd Bobby Sherman comic.>>>
>>> Radio . PSAs and beautiful music from >>> early 70s airchecks.>>>
>>> Dorcusella : lingerie from the early>>> 70s
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>> The 80s New in 2019, and spare.>>
>>> 1986 Catalog. Weekly >>> throughout 2019.>>>
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>> Mass Media, seen through two particular filters.>>
>> New version of Black and White World : it's >> better, but there's less there.>>
>> Old Black and White World . As the title suggests: >> the visual media before color.>>
>>> The Jazz Age.>>>
>>> Hard & Snappy: the 30s.>>>
>>> Film Noir.>>>
>>> Forties dramas and musicals.>>>
>>> Fifties morality.>>>
>>> Monster Movies!>>>
>>> Bug-Eyed Monsters : early sci-fi>>>
>>> TV , including Perry Mason>>> .
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>> The Disney Project .>>
>>>> Oswald and other early>>>> shorts.
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>>>> A rather comprehensive collection of Cartoon Titles.>>>>
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>> Small Films : Movies from buzz.mn & lileks.com. >> Additional 80s KTCA films viewable at my YouTube site>>
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>> LISTEN Selections from Old Time Radio; >> library music no one was ever meant to think much about.>>
>> The Diner My old KSTP AM-1500 radio show is >> back in podcast form. Over eighty half-hour episodes available - >> with some original shows from the 90s as well.>>
>> Bleatophany . Remixes and compositions.>>
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