Adam Selzer

I looked up Archibald Butt last time I ran across these dates for the exact reason you’d expect.

Big front page story on the Titanic with a dramatic painting and 1341 body count

(There were some crossed wires the first couple hours. Here’s the next day:

Headline from April 15, 1912 reading “Liner titanic wrecked, all aboard safe.”

Phew!

Microfilm screen with an ad for tickets on the Lusitania

Back on my bullshit at the microfilm room. Wasn’t looking up the Lusitania today but this the first thing I saw:

If you are attempting to dissect cultural trends between the 80s and today, I would argue that one of the most comprehensive resources you can find is the discography of "Weird Al" Yankovic

How does this guy even imagine SNAP works? Like, does he think it’s an unlimited card?

Remember when Trump said grocery stores would “work along” with you during the pandemic because they knew you?

These losers think they fuck with the eagles but real life would suck them dry.

Working on cleaning up links, gear, webpages, etc as the new tour season starts up. My “peeking out of a tomb” shot looks great in profile pics if I line it up correctly!

About 15 years ago a very vocal part of the YA community got downright militant about the idea that all books should be in first person present tense.

A bored former 1920s tabloid figure lounging in front of a bird cage.

Cecil Beaton took this remarkable photo of Chicago socialite Mary Landon Baker looking like Norma Desmond (with whom I think she had a lot in common). Driving me crazy that I can only find this newspaper version of it!

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

He at least spent months pushing bullshit to convince people bombing Iraq was a good idea, instead of just… doing it because he was bored and not even bothering to come up with some coherent bullshit.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

I’m really going to enjoy Markwayne’s eventual humiliation and disgrace. Few things make me happier than seeing evil rednecks wallowing in misery.

The response is….comprehensive.

My grandma just banked at the one in Grinnell in her 20s and didn’t think anything of it.

Please keep us up to date on the Mad Tissue Dropper saga!

Debating whether I should do one of my own songs at the jazz bar tonight or attempt Tom Waits’ 1979 spoken word version of “Burma Shave” and damn I love living in this neighborhood.

(This is a problem with a lot of “demimonde” studies, though; if there’s a source at all it’s often someone whose middle name is “The.”)

Herbert Asbury is a pretty good overview of the same era as Low Life but, like his NY volume you have to take it with a whole shaker of salt.

A few of mine probably qualify, or look up Yellow Kid Weill’s autobiography (which is probably about as accurate as Devil in the White City, but you know what you’re getting with a swindler’s memoirs).

“Woke Axl Rose” is one of my favorite face turns of the 2010s but he’d be on a lot more shirts if he’d died under mysterious circumstances in about 1994.

I saw some for “West ridge east.” At the time I figured below Warren Park was South West Ridge East. I lived right below the park so that was North South West Ridge East.

There are better takes of many tracks and two outtakes arguably better that any song on it, and yet every pick made for the album was correct.

In the absence of an alternative motive - and on the news that the US is targeting oil refineries it's worth whether the whole point of going into Iran was - to create an excuse to lift oil sanctions on Russia.

Sure but we used to rewind our Ataris and drink from the street lights until the hose came on. In cursive!

Hey I’m by the modern wing lol

Lol of course someone has to jump in with a “well, actually” Peshtigo comment.

Bankers always wrote the most boring autobiographies.

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Everything good starts in a getaway car.

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“Spotify classics” playlist with Olivia Rodrigo on the cover.

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