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Comments (64)In the late forties the way we dealt with GA heat and no AC was to open the windows only a few inches and turn on attic fan from sunset to midmorning. The partially opened windows created the strongest draft and the curtains would just billow out. Then windows and blinds were closed and drapes drawn during hottest part of day. It was such a relief to finally get window ac units about 1950. I remember those Playtex girdles though I never wore one...my friends and I preferred the nylon when we wore stockings but don't think they were much "cooler"...in both senses of that word...LOL In college in the early fifties we wore socks and flat shoes and no girdles. Stockings and girdles and high heels were for dress up. Of course when we went to work after college in the mid-fifties it was girdles and stockings and high heels every day. I can't remember exactly when that changed...maybe when the bra-burning days came along? I was a SAHM by that time but sure welcomed the dose of fresh air and good sense! Anyone remember the Merry Widow bra worn with cocktail and formal dresses? Strapless but it came down to waist level and was so sexy looking even girls who didn't need a waist cincher had to have one...LOL josh...See MoreDesign Around This #17: Steampunk
Comments (66)jterriynn, the steampunk fashion stuff definitely has a sexual edginess. As for the steampunk decorating stuff, I've decided that it's not for me. ____ I really did try to take up this challenge but I've given up. Just thought I'd record a little of my journey and why I am going to quit. Surely a better thinker than I am will conjure a fabulous kitchen from the ashes of my fabulous ideas. First, I looked hard at the Metropole subway entrance and tried to channel it into a design. Didn't get anywhere. Without a grand high ceiling and skylight, this aesthetic is tough. Sure, I could have invented a high-ceilinged room with amazing glass and spidery separations between glass, but that's an architectural feature of the house or apartment that would be the impetus, not the muse itself. So then I got to thinking about Madame Curie and her cohort--now there were visionary scientists of the period! I asked my DH what he can recall of the huge science classroom that he worked in for roughly 30 years, in a c. 1900 building. He says "Hard maple floors. Oak cabinets--a whole wall of them. Long lab tables with a few sinks and bunsen burners. Tall curved faucets. Tall windows and window shades (the latter were removed when they got tacky looking. Not sure when this equipment was installed." I started working on a Marie Curie's lab theme for the kitchen olioboard--canisters lettered in that art nouveau Metropolitan typeface (see photo above) with "radium" and "pitchblende" stenciled on them and gaslight fixtures in ceiling and a steam radiator painted in an outlandish color but decided the whole thing was not worth my time. This was reinforced when I located a photo of Curie's lab, which made me recall that she had been allocated space in a "shed" outside of the physics dept, a silly woman working outside the mainstream. How's this for a setting for real-life science fiction? To quote her: "Its glass roof did not afford complete shelter against rain; the heat was suffocating in summer, and the bitter cold of winter was only a little lessened by the iron stove, except in its immediate vicinity. There was no question of obtaining the needed proper apparatus in common use by chemists. We simply had some old pine-wood tables with furnaces and gas burners. We had to use the adjoining yard for those of our chemical operations that involved producing irritating gases; even then the gas often filled our shed. With this equipment we entered on our exhausting work." All this just made me mad on behalf of Curie and did nothing for my peaceful kitchen. Besides, she was working with radium so the radioactivity might be hard on the family life and the cuisine. Here's another Curie laboratory image, I would assume for her later work== perhaps inspiring for another GW'er? a 40 x 30 print of this can be had for $200 Gotta admit: Science and cooking aren't in the same department. In fact, people make fun of modern "operating room" white kitchens--they are antimatter for a relaxing, gentle room. Then I tried to work up wallpaper based on Steiglitz's photo of a train yard...plenty of steam there! But I couldn't find a source of a blown-up version of the photo and I became afraid that the photo would be taken as being about trains--not a peaceful kitchen for me either! Then there's Joe Stella, a painter of 1920s who did numerous Brooklyn Bridge stylized paintings. I messed with his arches and colors. But this got me nowhere either. The truth: TNT explosiveness and edgy are not me and decorating with a steampunk science muse doesn't connect me to any worthwhile kitchen design. Sorry to be cranky, but I'm done here I think. I know it's fun but not the fun I can really enjoy. I look forward to somebody else's fun stuff on the postings Steampunk thread. Have fun stormin' the castle, visionaries! Here is a link that might be useful: Marie Curie lab poster from All Posters...See MoreWho or what inspired you to start reading?
Comments (32)Am I the only person here who was a 'slower reader'? I grew up in what was technically my Grandfather's house. He and my Father had moved into it on the death of my grandmother in the 1930's and had been looked after/waited on by a housekeeper. During WWII my Father married and brought my Mother to live there . . . and boy did she resent Grampy . . . and being told by neighbours that she was lucky to have a roof over her head, as though she had been rescued from the gutter. So, I was often left with Gramps, who between sleeping and looking at the sports pages would read to me. My Grandmother who worked in a US book store/library often sent American books, so I had several little Golden books plus a few early 'Ladybird' books. I loved listening to stories but never once did it occur to me to try and read them myself. Reading was just something that Grown-ups did. I really struggled at school with reading and can still remember the incomprehension when given a card with pictures on it. A cat, a dog a doll etc. With the card came a small tin containing individual words. Of course the idea was to match the words to each picture. This I could not do because I never recognised any of the words! It appeared no-one (certainly not the teacher a kindly young woman) knew how to help me. Spelling tests were equally dreaded. I always go nothing out of ten and was late home to lunch as I had to write out my many mistakes five times each. I remember the 'correct' words were written on the board but I never knew which was which! As we were never given words to learn or take home and practice, the tests must have been hit and miss anyway. 'Reading' took place in small groups and I was so useless the 'best reader' leading the group would kindly let me off my turn for which everyone was grateful. It wasn't until I was probably nearly seven and had received a copy of What Katie Did for a Christmas present from US Granny, that my Father, not a 'family man' by nature, and bored with all this quality time told me to read the book to him. He sat me on the floor gripping me with his knees and soon found it was quite beyond me. I clearly remember him turning to my Mother and saying 'Why can't she read?" Mother probably answered "I don't know, that's why we send her to school, shouldn't they be teaching her?" She most likely went on "Well I was reading Scott and Dickens when I was seven/eight." Our parents loved to tell us how good they were at 'stuff' and how useless we were! That seemed to be the Damascene moment. It still took me some years to be able to cope with a 'proper' book, but fear (of my Father) was the starting point. And I still don't know what it was that Katie did. ;-)...See MoreQuotes 10 - 4 - 17 page 2
Comments (0)Anne Rice Quotes American - Novelist Born: October 4, 1941 Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge. Anne Rice When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. Anne Rice Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. Anne Rice Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. Anne Rice To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. Anne Rice We're frightened of what makes us different. Anne Rice Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. Anne Rice The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. Anne Rice People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. Anne Rice I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. Anne Rice First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. Anne Rice Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. Anne Rice I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. Anne Rice The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets. Anne Rice I can't keep up with Stephen King's output. Anne Rice You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't. Anne Rice We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough. Anne Rice Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. Anne Rice I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful? Anne Rice I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. Anne Rice I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. Anne Rice When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box. Anne Rice To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. Anne Rice You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. Anne Rice What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. Anne Rice We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job. Anne Rice There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. Anne Rice The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? Anne Rice The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. Anne Rice The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. Anne Rice The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write. Anne Rice That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. Anne Rice My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. Anne Rice Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. Anne Rice It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others. Anne Rice I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it. Anne Rice I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways. Anne Rice I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on. Anne Rice I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. Anne Rice I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love. Anne Rice I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. Anne Rice I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here. Anne Rice I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out. Anne Rice I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group. Anne Rice I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them. Anne Rice I do want to go another way - to write something completely different. Anne Rice I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Rice I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. Anne Rice I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. Anne Rice I broke with my religion in college. Anne Rice Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough. Anne Rice Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless. Anne Rice I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. Anne Rice Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. Anne Rice Susan Sarandon Quotes American - Actress Born: October 4, 1946 To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. Susan Sarandon I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions. Susan Sarandon Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves. Susan Sarandon It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements. Susan Sarandon I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. Susan Sarandon If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving. Susan Sarandon When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon Children reinvent your world for you. Susan Sarandon We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States. Susan Sarandon I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point. Susan Sarandon I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure. Susan Sarandon I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need. Susan Sarandon I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family. Susan Sarandon Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility. Susan Sarandon When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.' Susan Sarandon Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate. Susan Sarandon It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job. Susan Sarandon Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us? Susan Sarandon I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. Susan Sarandon In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with. Susan Sarandon It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. Susan Sarandon The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess. Susan Sarandon The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids. Susan Sarandon Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier. Susan Sarandon So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality. Susan Sarandon I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. Susan Sarandon You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with. Susan Sarandon...See Morecolleenoz
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