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Veterans and Recruits

Posted in advertising, military, video on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear holiday lovers, Growing up, I definitely didn’t take Veterans’ Day very seriously, except as a reason to sleep in. There were only two people in my family who ever saw a battle front—my Bronx-reared great-uncle, who was a paratrooper in the Pacific, and my Czech grandfather, who fought with the Russian army against the [...]

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Eisenhower and Bush Sr., Now Kid-Friendlier!

Posted in advertising, cartoons, politics, video on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear reluctant researchers, As you ponder the results of yesterday’s elections, I thought you might appreciate a visit from the ghosts of political campaigns past. No, I haven’t summoned the spirit of Fiorello Laguardia again. But I have uncovered a fascinating archive from the Museum of the Moving Image: “The Living Room Candidate,” which includes [...]

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Board Games of Life

Posted in advertising, domesticity, fun, periodicals, tagged , , , , , on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear La-Z-Boy loungers, I don’t know about you, but I vastly preferred board games as a child over the more dangerous (and potentially embarrassing) pursuits of the athletics field.  Still I can’t help but think all of those hours spent on the living room rug must have prepared me in some way for adulthood. “Monopoly” [...]

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The Dangers of Sugar and the Joys of Steak

Posted in advertising, commerce, film, food, visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear snooze-button specialists, Eating may be one of the more delightful ways to delay work. People who don’t spend their lives in libraries and classrooms for a living might, in fact, be surprised at how many lunches, teatimes, coffee breaks, iced coffee breaks, brownie breaks, suppers, dinners, desserts, and happy hours you can fit into [...]

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Cereal Commercials and Giraffe Broadsides

Posted in advertising, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dear readers, Who, or what, is the Lazy Scholar, you ask? I’ve been mulling for a few months now the idea of starting blog devoted to the ideal of scholarly sloth–doing as much research as humanly possible without actually leaving your computer. In all seriousness, I think that web archives are an incredible resource for  scholars and [...]

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