22 Feb
I love everyday family photos, so I was really happy to come across this online gallery from Life magazine. The images of mothers with their children are from the Life Classics series and are included in the book LIFE with Mother.
I almost did a post on another Life gallery called Famous Literary Drunks and Addicts, but the mothers with their kids thing is a little more uplifting for a Monday morning.
[...] to write something uplifting. She chose as a subject a photo essay by Life magazine about “Life with Mother“. The Life feature she almost wrote about was “Famous Literary Drunks and [...]
During my latest trip to Brooklyn and northern New Jersey, my best friends and I recorded ourselves performing the infamous Top That rap from the classic 80s film Teen Witch. What follows is that rap plus a montage of shenanigans that most people would consider embarrassing.
As I sat in this room, a make-shift theatre in the back of an organic grocery shop, with four women and two nursing babies, I was carried by their momentum. Surrounded by their art and baby food jars felt as organic as the produce shelved around me.
Oh, thank God, I thought. They’re porn-friendly moms. Now I can relax and enjoy my third cup of coffee.
I busted out the old sewing box my mom gave me years ago and fished around for a solution. And what did I find? A Led Zeppelin patch I got from the record store I worked in 15 YEARS AGO. Here’s what went through my head at this discovery…
Remember how I wrote about going home to Virginia for Christmas? Well, I left out a little something we now refer to as “The Disco Christmas Sleepover of 2009,” wherein my best friends and I drank too much and decided to do a dance video.
I don’t know… I was quite enjoying the “Famous Literary Drunks and Addicts” – especially their quotes about their problems!
Yeah, wasn’t that fascinating? Looks like every author worth reading was addicted to something!
There is enough uplift in the world already. I wrote about the literary drunks at my blog
Thanks for telling me about it.
hey jaime, mike.d here your blog is cool. marissa told me about it. the life photo archives are amazing! constant source of inspiration. hope all is well… say hi to dan for me..
What’s up Mike D? Thanks so much. Have you seen The Impossible Cool blog? Lots of great pics there, too.
Who are you playing with these days?
josh kraemer from ultra cindy on bass,marissa’s brother thom on vox,nic on drums and myself on guitar… we are “whispering winds” silly name but we are rocking it…tell dan thanks for not picking up that amp. i’m taking care of it…really i’am.
Dude, that’s my amp, and I’m getting it one of these days! I’ll be home in May. You can take good care of it until then:)
I’ll def check out your band. I like the name!