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"So it seems time to pronounce a rule about American popular culture: the Golden Forty-Year Rule. The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to have happened, in the decade between forty and fifty years past… And so, if we can hang on, it will be in the twenty-fifties that the manners and meanings of the Obama era will be truly revealed: only then will we know our own essence. A small, attentive child, in a stroller on some Brooklyn playground or Minneapolis street, is already recording the stray images and sounds of this era: Michelle’s upper arms, the baritone crooning sound of NPR, people sipping lattes (which a later decade will know as poison) at 10 A.M.—manners as strange and beautiful as smoking in restaurants and drinking Scotch at 3 P.M. seem to us. A series or a movie must already be simmering in her head, with its characters showing off their iPads and staring at their flat screens: absurdly antiquated and dated, they will seem, but so touching in their aspiration to the absolutely modern. Forty years from now, we’ll know, at last, how we looked and sounded and made love, and who we really were."
What “Mad Men” Shows About American Pop Culture | The New Yorker (via kateoplis)
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JCPenney is featuring a same-sex couple in its Fathers’ Day ad, following One Million Moms’ failed boycott of the store for bringing on Ellen DeGeneres.
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Billy Buttons! The most perfect drying plants ever.
Dig the table centerpieces, Jones soda design and outfit accessories, but not sure if I’d trust a creeper near my wedding cake! More photos of the incredibly adorable geeky couple (Matt and Asia) at the link above, as well as more info on the wedding and decorations!
definitely, definitely worth the click-through!
Kurt Fagerland, who is always a FYT favorite, was featured on CNN. The article, which you can here, even mentions a few pieces of Kurt’s we’ve featured recently.
“When you’re walking down the street and somebody looks at you, I want them to think it’s a beautiful and interesting addition to your body. I’m not completely against doing something that’s meaningful, but my main concern is what the tattoo looks like.”
With his colorful arms and a rose creeping up the side of his neck, he looks the part. Fagerland is most content when someone gives him artistic license. It starts with a conversation that leads to sketches or drawings, which often take hours to complete, before the client sits for a session or two.
He recently completed a “vegetable sleeve” on the arm of a yoga instructor who told him which vegetables she liked. She left the shop with her arm covered in radishes, heirloom corn, eggplant and artichoke.
Thanks to Tom, whose Johnny Cash tattoo was featured, for bringing this to my attention.
Kickass Kids of the Day: Craving a midweek pick-me-up? Perhaps in the form of a mini-hipster rendition of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”?
Twelve- and 8-year-old sisters Lennon and Maisy — and their butter containers — have you covered. You’re welcome.
I love how happy they look…perfect shot!
I’m on day six of Operation Teleterror. They still don’t think I’m not Jose Aguinaga. The past two days I’ve just let the rep on the phone listen to 2pac’s, “Ambitionz as a Ridah” while she goes on and on about how not paying “civil fines” (ha ha, nice try) is “very serious” (watch them skirt around that) and “Target may seek legal action” (legalese is hilarious).
I told the collector that I could refer her to my “lawyer” (me doing a Scooby Doo voice) and then she just hung up.
Neil Gaiman’s Graduation Speech Turned Into A Comic
thank you, jack, for sharing this.
