Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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America’s Lost Landmarks: Spectacular American Buildings and Sites that No Longer Exist
Throughout the decades, a number of important and interesting sites and landmarks have been lost, many due to the urbanization of cities, sometimes … America’s Lost Landmarks: Spectacular American Buildings and Sites that No Longer Exist
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Vintage Photos Show Japan’s Old Art of Soba Noodle Delivery on Bicycles, 1900s-1950s
When societies industrialize, food systems expand and specialize to meet the new waves of customers. These amazing old photographs show Japan’s demae… Vintage Photos Show Japan’s Old Art of Soba Noodle Delivery on Bicycles, 1900s-1950s
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Panasonic portable VHS 1979 TV commercial
Kind of wild to think about dragging around a Panasonic portable VHS recorder in 1979, but good grief this is valuable to know for my current work in progress. Who here owned VHS recorders? We had one, much smaller. Apparently they downsized a couple years later:
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NYC pigeons on a wire
Caught these little guys zigging and zagging on the intersections of the wires near the Intrepid. Kind of a cool thought: a sort of infinite regression of NYC pigeons in a fractal: pigeons pigeons all the dark way down
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Fellow Dogs — Tap and Die 008
The main attendant scrolled through. And scrolled through. “No Dawes other than a young girl.” Jack’s daughter. And his wife?
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Margin Path Greenwood
As the Green-wood Poet, I’ve been to Greenwood easily twice as many times as I’ve been to the Met Museum and was still surprised by the margin path in Greenwood (I don’t really believe in dashes, even in proper names, only em dashes and only for parentheticals). The Met I’ve visited some fifty times and:…
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Intrepid NYC
Had some friends go to the Intrepid NYC museum recently and I grabbed these photos of the old dame on the way to dinner. Never been aboard, but hope to take my father-in-law at some point as he was the supply engineer on a couple of the planes. What photos have you snagged lately? —…
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Halloween Stoop Decorations in NYC
I’ve slowly been collecting photos here in NYC of Halloween stoop decorations. Let me know in the comments how you’re decorating and which one of these is your favorite. My favorite far and away is the first: This daddy was hand-drawing 13 (for the triskaidekaphobic folk) pumpkin skulls on each step in chalk with his…
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Fantastic Beasts Spoilers — Rancid Ep. 00
Some folks didn’t realize a couple years back, I secretly released a movie spoiler podcast called Rancid with Jeremiah Jones, Matt Otey, and my ever-present partner in crime, Mark Neuenschwander. Here’s episode zero, which sort of featured fantastic beasts spoilers. As per usual, I don’t take responsibility for everything my collaborators say. But I did…
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Lava gloves — Tap and Die 007
The main attendant scrolled through. And scrolled through. “No Dawes other than a young girl.” Jack’s daughter. And his wife?
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Science Fiction Fantasy Alliance AMA
The delightful mods of the Science Fiction Fantasy Alliance (SFFA) hosted their first AMA and invited me to come and talk. Here’s the recording of what went down: