a guide to heritage clothing, canvas bags, steel bicycles, and Japanese web shops
A guest post by Karen Hart We’ve been watching a lot of television in our house lately. Television is short, moderately and sometimes unintentionally amusing and you don’t have to invest time and energy into enjoying it. Until winter is over this will most likely be our primary form of entertainment. We tried Knot’s Landing …
Betty Draper’s riding instructor (Mad Men: Season Two) Like the rest of the world, I love Mad Men. But for me, it’s a snow globe world I want to watch but not occupy. Last week, I caught an easy-to-miss view of Betty Draper’s riding instructor in the first episode of the second season (“For Those …
Raleigh Sport Raleigh DL-1 Raleigh Sport Alex Moutlon AM-7 Vaughn W. is my kind of archival collector. I might even have to appoint him as an understudy for the time when my own visual content runs dry. Originally, Vaughn sent me a few photographs of bicycles from his collection (“14 at last count”). Each bicycle …
Mystery writer, Harriet Vane (Harriet Walter), carrying crime fighting essentials (notebook, folding camera, fountain pen) in a sporty canvas and leather rucksack in the BBC production, Have His Carcass.
Since I’ve been sick, I’ve been relishing my access to A.M. talk television. My favorite program–as a kind of legacy selection from earlier incarnations–is the Martha Stewart show or simply MARTHA. I’m not too fond of the audience applause factor or the set design kitchen from which Martha emerges at the beginning of each show. …