In Citizen Kane, the breakfast table gets bigger and the gap between Kane and his wife expands as the marriage deteriorates.
Tweets on corporate donations to Big Lie supporters
I have three prayer candles
I’m an atheist but I have these:
Elvis
Grateful Dead (with art from their 1971 album)
Pee Tape (for the Trump pee tape which unfortunately doesn’t appear to exist
Covers: Carmelita
“Carmelita” is a Warren Zevon song that was first recorded by Murray McLauchlan in 1972. I didn’t know that until yesterday. Zevon recorded it in 1976 and Linda Ronstadt covered it in 1977.
Many Republicans are now opposed to all mandatory vaccines in schools
Do they want childhood diseases to come back? Look at the poll linked to in the comment by Harry Enten. In 2015, support for mandatory vaccines in school was 78%. The decline in support is part of the damage the Trump cult has done to our country.
Covers: Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company song)
I thought of “Shame Shame Shame” when I saw the tweet about Cher. The original version was by Shirley & Company from 1974.
Climate tweets – 2/15/22 update
The Levy’s rye bread ads
Note: I am not related to the people who founded this business
This was a famous ad campaign in the 1960s. The first tweet links to an outstanding article.
Levy’s ad campaign: “You don’t have to be Jewish” (1961–70s)
From Howard Zieff, later a film director, on IMDB:
On photographing in 1967 for the “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s” ad campaign: We wanted normal-looking people, not blond, perfectly proportioned models. I saw the Indian on the street; he was an engineer for the New York Central. The Chinese guy worked in a restaurant near my Midtown Manhattan office. And the kid we found in Harlem. They all had great faces, interesting faces, expressive faces.
Great Twitter thread on the Squarespace Super Bowl commercial
The ad was starred Zendaya and included Andre 3000. It was directed by Edgar Wright. This thread has a great view from someone who worked on it.
Sad! 