Celebrating the Power of the Human Voice on Studs Terkel’s 100th Birthday
In an animated short by StoryCorps, the famous oral historian recounts an entertaining anecdote about how alienating the modern world can be when we don’t talk to each other.
May 16, 2012
May 8, 2012
As Mr. Sendak grew up — lower class, Jewish, gay — he felt permanently shunted to the margins of things. “All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy,” he told The New York Times in a 2008 interview. “They never, never, never knew.”
His lifelong melancholia showed in his work, in picture books like “We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy” (HarperCollins, 1993), a parable about homeless children in the age of AIDS. It showed in his habits. He could be dyspeptic and solitary, working in his white clapboard home in the deep Connecticut countryside with only Mozart, Melville, Mickey Mouse and his dogs for company.
It showed in his everyday interactions with people, especially those blind to the seriousness of his enterprise. “A woman came up to me the other day and said, ‘You’re the kiddie-book man!’ ” Mr. Sendak told Vanity Fair last year.“I wanted to kill her.”
—NY Times obituary
April 24, 2012
This is a blobfish. Apparently it’s a real thing. Like a failed first attempt at the charming Axolotl.
April 24, 2012
February 25, 2012
February 7, 2012
January 31, 2012
Snoozin’ dormouse. Watch with sound on.
January 30, 2012
Good collection of color photos of New York in the 1940s.
January 28, 2012
January 25, 2012
Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis (and Archie Bunker) on Johnny Carson. 1977.
January 18, 2012
Color photos from Russia 100 years ago. There is also a good (though complicated) bit on the process here.
December 9, 2011
December 1, 2011
November 25, 2011
