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shaggylocks

shaggylocks
Location
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday
August 23
Bio
Fan of ephemera, connoisseur of Coronet.

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I predict that in a couple of years it’ll become a fairly standard line of conspiracy theory thought that Michael Jackson is alive.  Despite, well, you know, the fact that he’s dead.   The crazier among us will suspect aliens, while the saner-yet-still-kinda-crazy will deci… Read full post »

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MARCH 18, 2009 1:54AM

Confessions of a White Guy with an Afro

It starts off innocently enough: you're born into this world with a head of thick, curly hair, which your mother and grandmothers and aunts and checkout-counter ladies all seem to adore.  You like the attention. It's a blessing, at first.

3rd grade
 third grade mini-fro

 

As you get olde… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 23, 2008 3:05PM

Dog costumes!

This morning as I was walking in to work I saw a dog wearing a pirate costume.  Halloween is still a little ways off, but even if it was Halloween I'm not a big fan of dressing up your pets for the occasion. When I got in and told my coworkerRead full post »

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APRIL 9, 2009 10:36PM

Walt Disney: They only copied from the very best

 

Apparently Disney only made one film and has been tracing it ever since.  A friend sent this to me today, and it is really fun to watch. Read full post »

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APRIL 7, 2009 10:33AM

Open Letter to the Guys in the Locker Room at my Gym

Dear Guys in the Locker Room at my Gym:

Look, I’m just going to come out and say it: what is with all this nudity?  Seriously, guys.  Is this really necessary?  Come on now.  Can’t you wrap a towel around your waist or something?  We don’t need to… Read full post »

MAY 8, 2009 4:10PM

My Sexiest Men Not Living

Disclaimer: This is a mixed bag of guys.  I can't explain why one person turns me on and another that looks almost the same doesn't.  I also have a lot of older guys in my list (obviously).  It's a mystery though I can say that a sense of humor, an accent, or… Read full post »

APRIL 3, 2009 11:07AM

The Boys of Summer hijack my workday

I was originally going to post a old Coronet Instructional video about economics today, but this morning the fever is running strong. 

Baseball fever. 

It's been in remission all winter, but flared up mid-February and is now at a full rolling boil.  Even this damp and rainy Cambridge… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 24, 2008 1:41PM

Good Ol' Fashioned Sex Ed

These two films--Molly Grows Up (1953) and As Boys Grow (1957)--were both produced and distributed by Medical Arts Productions.   Normally I'd have the girls go off into one room to watch Molly Grows Up and send the boys down to the gym to watch As Boys Grow, but we're all adults… Read full post »

photo courtesy of Zombie Tools
photo courtesy of Zombie Tools
 
There’s something about working in a hospital that allows you see the full spectrum of humanity in a way that no other job can.  You see people at their most vulnerable.  People are dying in hospitals. People are being born in… Read full post »

...but of mummifying the corpse.

So says Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, at any rate.

I imagine proposing has to be pretty tough.  First off, there's a fair bit of nervousness that I'm sure accompanies the act, but that's fairly obvious and I won't even bother talking about that.  If you've… Read full post »

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MAY 15, 2009 1:03PM

Masters of Silent Comedy

Comparing Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton is like comparing apples and oranges.  Hilarious apples and oranges, mind you, but wholly disparate fruit nonetheless.  Even so, countless silent film fans before me have voiced their preference for one or the other, and so, since I’m determ… Read full post »

Freedom on the March
 
 
There’s an old poem that has been surfacing recently on various pro-war websites and blogs called “It Is The Soldier”:

It is the Soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the Soldier, not the poet, who hasRead full post »
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APRIL 26, 2009 11:24PM

Jacoby Ellsbury just stole home! (Updated with video)

 Okay, I called it.  Except technically I didn't.

Jacoby Ellsbury stealing second
Jacoby Ellsbury takes off for second

About a month ago, as my excitement for the coming baseball season was growing into a fevered pitch, I posted a video clip of what I called "arguably the most exciting… Read full post »

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MAY 13, 2009 12:39PM

Jayson Werth steals home!

I'll understand if you don’t believe me when I say this, but I swear it’s true: stealing home is difficult, risky, and rare.

Seriously. 

Yet here I am, posting about it yet again, because once again someone has stolen home.

Werth steals home
Jayson Werth  steals home
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NOVEMBER 23, 2009 12:37PM

Okay, I admit it: I saw New Moon on opening weekend

We bought tickets in advance.  We joked about it all week.  But then, Sunday afternoon, we realized that buying tickets meant we actually had to go.  And that's how I found myself seeing New Moon with a theaterful of tween, teens, Twi-moms, and the like. 

New Moon poster

 

Just so t… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009 10:40AM

Should I attend my 10 year reunion?

In 1999 I donned a cap and gown and made a grand exit out of that cesspool of adolescent enterprise known as high school. 

(If the back of my mother's camera hadn't been accidentally opened by my younger brother, I'd have a picture to post here of me accepting my… Read full post »

Hey!!  Glad you could make it!  Did you park around the block, like I said? Good.  You didn't tell Steve, right?  Great.  It's a surprise.  Now, you know the drill: we all find a good hiding spot, and when Steve gets here we all jump out and shout,

 

"Surprise!!… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 21, 2009 10:50PM

Secret War on Christmas Planning Meeting!

Alright, up off yer lazy asses, you godless liberals! Our War on Christmas has been an unmitigated disaster this year, and don’t even try denying it. Our secular progressive agenda is in tatters, and we’ve only got three more days left! We need to shape up, and fast!… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009 10:13AM

VD is for Everybody!

 
This is a  PSA from the American Social Health Association from 1969.  I don't know what "VD" is, but I definitely want some.  These people look so successful, attractive and happy!  And that song is so darn infectious...

 
Production Company: Ad Council
Spons
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MARCH 20, 2009 10:33AM

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Machine

One of the keys on my computer is broken.  The key has been sticking for some time, but as of this morning it no longer registers when I press it.  It is the fourth letter of the alphabet, which, unfortunately, is also the first letter of my first name, as well/… Read full post »

Like any good community citizen, I try to avoid the big corporate chains when there is a locally owned alternative available.  I frequent the local hardware stores, buy from local pizza joints, buy produce at the farmer's market, and keep big boys like WalMart at arm's length (and I have really… Read full post »

I think the worst thing about the current economic crisis is the insecurity and uncertainty.  I’ve already survived two rounds of layoffs, and even though I’m now responsible for twice as many accounts as I had been previously, I still worry that I might find myself on the chopping

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AUGUST 20, 2009 11:48AM

Time's Running Out!

Okay, let’s figure this shit out once and for all.

If my calendar is correct (and I have no reason to distrust it), in 133 days it will be 2010.  We’ll be leaving this decade behind us and entering the… Teens?  And we’ll be leaving… Read full post »

Unleashing My Inner 1950s Tightass
or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rock and Roll

I’m going to let you in on a guilty little secret of mine: sometimes, while listening to old rock and roll from the 1950s, I like to pretend I’m an uptight middle-aged parent hearing… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 28, 2008 11:17AM

The Responsibilities of American Citizenship (1955)

With the haunting specter of socialism threatening to rear it's head into the American sphere once again (Obama? Wall Street? You decide), I thought we could all do with a little refresher on what it means to be a TRUE American.  For that, I'll defer to "noted young historian" Professor CliftonRead full post »