Posted in biracial, books, old school, race, tagged 1962, biracial, class, interracial couples, interracial marriage, middle class, mixed race, textbooks, working class on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is from a 1962 high school textbook. You can find it here.
also found in this book, also interesting…
Posted in celebrities, old school, random, tagged Annie, candle on the water, disney movies, helen reddy, mickey rooney, pete's dragon, shelley winters on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I never should have brought that up because now I cannot stop thinking about Pete’s Dragon. After Annie, this was my favorite movie as a child. I think I’ve tried to block it out. I loved it so much! I was terrified of Shelley Winters. This movie is all I know of the work of [...]
Posted in old school, random, tagged 1980s, cereal, dunkin donuts, e.t., pac-man, rainbow brite, smurfs, transformers on October 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
if you hadn’t noticed by now…
I also love cereal. In the 80’s they made so many fun cereals. I bet they weren’t very good, but they were fun. I was a cereal nerd. I like boring things like corn flakes, special k, raisin bran. The most fun cereal that I enjoy is rice krispies. But [...]
Posted in old school, tagged cabbage patch kids, cabbage patch kids cereal, doll collection, dolls, xavier roberts on October 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
And I don’t mean California Pizza Kitchen.
Once upon a time it would have been my life’s goal to attain a collection like this:
or this:
I loved those things. I probably had ten of them. My first one’s name was Joanne Abby. I loved her. She was black and was wearing a jogging suit. I found the [...]
Posted in old school, race, random, tagged band aids, soul-aid, vintage ads on August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What ever happened to these!?
“Finally someone thought about you!” is one of the best tag lines. If that’s a tag line. So true.
Posted in inspiration, old school, quotes, tagged mr. rogers on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that [...]
Posted in old school, random, tagged 35mm film, cassette tape, floppy disk, ipod on May 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Posted in old school, tagged apple II, photos, polaroid, record player, typewriter, vcr, vhs tapes on May 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Posted in old school, photos, tagged elvis, he-man, mari kasurinen, my little pony, princess leia on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
and i don’t mean mary louise parker. and i guess i didn’t really “speak” of them, but…
http://www.marikasurinen.com/sculptures_main.html
