Fun Size Slackmistress: Dear Drunk Chick--
—who fought her way to the front of the stage after The Strange Boys were told by the person running the show that they had time for two more songs and yelled for them to GET THE FUCK OFF WE WANT THE REIGNING SOUND:
I hope you woke up this morning in a pile of someone else’s vomit.
Love,
This:
Because whoever’s up there is playing their heart out and trying to make their dreams a reality. How can you not respect that?
Winston’s shell. Designer Graham demostrates Winston Churchill’s personal pressure chamber, created to enable him to make high-altitude flights safely. In: Life, 10 Feb 1947.
To protect the precious bulk of Winston Churchill in wartime a special one-man pressure chamber was built for the personal plane which carried him many times across the Atlantic and to Casablanca, Moscow and Yalta. Churchill was warned by his doctors that it was dangerous for a man of his age and physical condition to fly above 8,000 feet. The solution was a pressure chamber complete with ash trays, telephone and an air-circulation system good enough to prevent smoke from the ubiquitous cigar from fogging the atmosphere.
I kind of want this as a writing chamber. Although I don’t smoke cigars.
(via miklem)
Topless dueling?
I know it’s a long text but it’s worth the read!
“The most intriguing duel fought between women, and the sole one that featured exposed breasts, took place in August 1892 in Verduz, the capitol of Liechtenstein, between Princess Pauline Metternich and the Countess Kielmannsegg. It has gone down in history as the first “emancipated duel” because all parties involved, including the principals and their seconds were female… Before the proceedings began, the baroness pointed out that many insignificant injuries in duels often became septic due to strips of clothing being driven into the wound by the point of a sword. To counter this danger she prudently suggested that both parties should fight stripped of any garments above the waist. Certainly, Baroness Lubinska was ahead of her time, taking an even more radical take on the (at the time) widely dismissed theories of British surgeon Joseph Lister, who in 1870 revolutionized surgical procedures with the introduction of antiseptic.
With the precautions Baroness Lubinska recommended, the topless women duelists were less likely to suffer from an infection; indeed, it was a smart idea to fight semiclad. Given the practicality of the baroness’ suggestion and the “emancipated” nature of the duel, it was agreed that the women would disrobe—after all, there would be no men present to ogle them. For the women, the decision to unbutton the tops of their dresses was not sexual; it was simply a way of preventing a duel of first blood from becoming a duel to the death.
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It is humorous that most recounts of this historic event fail to mention two important things: the winner of the duel (Princess Metternich) and the reason why the women came to arms in the first place—they disagreed over the floral arrangements for an upcoming musical exhibition.”
^ best part of the entire article.
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words fail me at describing how perfect everything about this post is.
This is what happens next time bitches try and mess with my floral arrangements.
I’m curious as to the selections of said floral arrangements…
This is the best thing I’ve ever read ever.
Brilliant photo of the Met’s early plainclothes detectives in disguise. The guy in the eyepatch is having WAY TOO MUCH FUN.
Hey that’s not a picture of Billy Joel. Don’t worry. This will all make sense in a minute.
Song: Turn Around
Album: Cold Spring Harbor (1971)
Remastered Version (1983)
Side two of Billy Joel’s “Cold Spring Harbor” starts off on a surprising country rock note. Before today I had never put the words Billy Joel and country rock in the same sentence but Turn Around is a straight up country rock song and a damn good one. Turn Around is probably the best song on the album to this point.
Since I’m not planning on appearing on the upcoming TV show Rock Hoarders I don’t have any FM station playlists from 1971 around my house but if I did, I’m guessing I’d find that this song got some airplay on the same stations who would later play The Eagles to death because this song is better than any of those early Eagles hits.
As much as I like this song, one of the best things about it is not Billy Joel; it’s the contribution of pedal steel guitar player Pete Kleinow better known as Sneaky Pete. Sneaky Pete was a legendary musician and even if you have never heard his music, you’re probably familiar with his work.
Over the course of his musical career Sneaky Pete Kleinow was a member of The Flying Burrito Brothers and he played with George Harrison, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Stevie Wonder, The Byrds and many more. Prior to his music career he worked in film and TV as a visual effects artist on shows like The Outer Limits but quit visual effects in 1968 to be a full time musician after connecting with Graham Parsons who invited him to join The Flying Burrito Brothers. For the next decade plus Pete worked exclusively in music, lending his distinct pedal steel sound to dozens of records including Billy Joel’s debut album.
When I initially read the album credits for Cold Spring Harbor I was surprised to see Sneaky Pete listed among the backing musicians. As I mentioned above, I don’t think of Billy Joel when I think of country rock but I was eager to hear his contribution because I’ve had a soft spot for Sneaky Pete ever since I inherited a crate of LP’s from my mom’s second husband, which included a Byrds record that Pete appeared on. I was told that Sneaky Pete was the secret weapon of country rock, which may or may not be true but it sounded cool enough that I wanted it to believe it.
Eventually, Pete returned to visual effects where he had a second, equally successful career. From 1980 onward the former Sneaky Pete, now credited as Peter Kleinow lent his visual effects expertise to a few things you may be familiar with including:
Carl Sagan’s: Cosmos
The Empire Strikes Back
The Winds of War
Terminator (and Terminator 2)
Army of Darkness
So, next time you’re asked to find the connection between Billy Joel and: Darth Vader, Carl Sagan, The Terminator and Ash, you can point to one man, Sneaky Pete Kleinow.
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