Regionalism
Psych-Out
Once you have experienced the 1968 film PSYCH-OUT, you will be unable to return to your square, plastic, uptight lifestyle. Just the sight of Jack Nicholson's fake ponytail alone will trip you out!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 16, 2009 -
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Category: Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Costumes and Masks, Drugs, Fads, Fashion, Hair Styling, History, Hollywood, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Movies, Music, Regionalism, Sexuality, Stereotypes and Cliches, Surrealism, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, Posters, Dance, Body Painting, Facial Hair
Greenwich Village 1960
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 15, 2009 -
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Category: Regionalism, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Landmarks, Monuments, Sightseeing, 1960s
Merry Christmas from the Family
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 23, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, Regionalism, Stereotypes and Cliches
Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 17, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Music, Regionalism, Children, Husbands, 1970s
The Chattanooga Twist
I'll bet you never knew what song Chattanooga Hookers like to dance to, did you?What else but 1962's "The Chatanooga Twist," by Danyel Gerard!
Here's DG's other big hit.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 25, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Regionalism, Foreign Customs, 1960s, 1970s, Dance
Road Maps: real and imaginary
An unusual hobby: Adrian Leskiw designs fictional cities and nations, and then he draws roadmaps of them. In painstaking detail. He describes himself as a "roadgeek". You can browse through his collection of fictional roadmaps at The Map Realm. One use I can think of for these would be to sneak them into rental cars. (Mislabel them, of course.) Tourists would spend hours examining them, trying to figure out where they were.
But wait, there's more. Leskiw also collects covers of real roadmaps. He has an extensive collection of the official Michigan, Ontario and Ohio road maps. In the old days transportation departments apparently hired artists to design these covers. Now they seem to just slap generic photos on them.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 25, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Regionalism, Travel
Lucifer in Chatanooga
More proof that Chatanooga is a happening place.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 21, 2008 -
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Category: Regionalism, Religion, Video
Ghost Riders in the Sky
I don't think we heard enough of Vaughan Monroe's big hit in yesterday's Forest Service post, so here's the whole thing.We know here at WU that mortal cows are deadly--so just imagine how evil a ghost cow is!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 19, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Music, Paranormal, Regionalism, 1940s
The Elves of Iceland
Maybe the Icelandic banking meltdown can be remedied with pots of elvish gold.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 10, 2008 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Eccentrics, New Age, Paranormal, Regionalism, Religion, Foreign Customs, Europe
German Humor
Some might regard the phrase "German sense of humor" as an oxymoron. Nevertheless, the Caricatura Museum, recently opened in Frankfurt, is dedicated to exploring exactly that subject. According to the Telegraph:It's first event: a Mohammed lookalike competition.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 28, 2008 -
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Category: Humor, Regionalism
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