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On This Day In History

March 28th, 1584: Ivan the Terrible, first Tsar of all of Russia, dies of a stroke.

TAG GAME (thank you so much to @booksandabeer for including me, I really appreciated this!🫶🏻🥂):

Favorite color: Blue in general, but mostly deep, dark blues, and not the warm shades of it either. (I also love the International Klein Blue @booksandabeer mentioned, so so gorgeous!)

Last song I listened to: My Blue Heaven by Gene Austin

Last book I read: the last book I’ve read of is “Asimov’s Guide to Science”, I haven’t picked it up in days, though. The last thing I finished, however, was a book about Kazimir Malevich (“Malevich, Life and Work” by Jeanott Simmen). But god I haven’t finished anything in weeks. I need to fix that.

Last movie: Shame (2011). I really liked it!

Last TV show: Agatha All Along

Sweet/savory/spicy: all 3 for me as well!

Relationship status: happily single.

Last thing I googled: “How to use chopsticks” and I still can’t do it in the proper way.

Looking forward to: I’m sending a friend my own baked goods one of these days and I’m looking forward to hear from them about it!

Current obsessions: I’ve been falling back into the Evanstan rabbit hole lately.

Tagging (with zero pressure, please feel free to ignore this) the lovely: @musette22 @soliddarrity, @thisonesatellite and @buckrogers 🤎

Julian Fałat (Polish, 1853–1929)

- "Where are we going?" - "The future."

CHRIS EVANS and SEBASTIAN STAN as STEVE ROGERS and JAMES BUCHANAN BARNES ↳ CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011), dir. JOE JOHNSTON

a few great films that are free on the internet archive

in decent quality too!

here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.

links below

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo

paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders

desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch

harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby

los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag

rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale

sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder

fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux

jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman

the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov

all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz

gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor

the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton

the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale

COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts

rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock

brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean

to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch

a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens

eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju

double indeminity dir. billy wilder

wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman

shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman

through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman

winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman

the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko

the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson

cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda

alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels

after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese

halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter

the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune

Boris Zadvytsky - Lights (1964)

Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) dir. Blake Edwards.

Music: “Stupid Cupid” by Connie Francis.

Hi! I’ve made these cover pictures for the Not Easily Conquered series by dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears, as you can see, and I really liked making them! I thought I could share them online in case anyone’s interested. But if you are interested, please don’t download them from here, the quality isn’t great, instead you can download them in full resolution on AO3, where I’ve uploaded them all.

Rian James, Dining in New York, 1929. Dust jacket artist unknown.

This is a New York booklet written for New Yorkers. James offered a unique slice of the New York dining scene just before the October 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression. The good times were to end soon after.

While there were a ton of contemporary guidebooks published about New York City, very few delved into the restaurant scene. James’s punchy one-line descriptions tell you a lot more than many a detailed review. The writing has some jazz age jargon such as “Beeway” for Broadway and “black and tan” for an establishment that has race mingling between Blacks and Caucasians.

Some excerpts:

MAXL’S – 86th St. near 3rd Ave. Tyrolean Sausage and Sauer Kraut and Tyrolean high jinks after theatre.

THE BLUE RIBBON-145 W. 44th St. German. German cuisine, and plenty of German celebs.

HENRY’S – 69 W. 36th St. Swedish. Roll your own hors d’oeuvres, from a huge center table.

CEYLON INDIA – 148 W. 49th St. East Indian. Curried dishes that are hotter than a Sophie Tucker finale.

DINTY MOORE’S-46th St. west of Beeway. Irish Corned beef and marv lemon pies and giant baked potatoes. Favorite of Ziegfeld, Berlin, Will Rogers, et al.

HOTEL ALGONQUIN – 44th St. bet. 5th and 6th Aves. The snootier of the literati lunch here. The pastry is grand.

GYPSY TEA SHOP – 435 Fifth Ave. Your fortune, from tea leaves, gratis, and all you want to eat, for 75¢.

GREENWICH VILLAGE INN – 6 Sheridan Sq. What customers from Hoosick Falls would he disappointed at not finding.

THE EVERGLADES – Beeway at 48th St. An extravagant floor show with considerable costume economy, and ex-Vanities girls to sit it out with you.

THE MADHOUSE – 169 W. 133rd St. All the name implies. For colored whoopsters chiefly, but whites admitted. Come here after all the others have closed, and SEE things!

For more excerpts and more about the author, see Stuff Nobody Cares About.

Photo: The Cary Collection Text: Stuff Nobody Cares About