So I was just wondering why “pesticide” means “kills pests”, “fungicide” means “kills fungi” but “barbicide” means “stuff old barbershops store combs in.” Wikipedia, of course, has the answer:
According to Ben King, son of the inventor, Maurice named the solution Barbicide because “He hated barbers. Barbicide meant ‘to kill the barber’. It was his secret joke.”
“Until Mr. King died in 1988 of a heart attack while holding a winning poker hand, he loved to dance with every woman in attendance”
Faulkner’s Mint Julep cup,
his recipe was: whiskey, 1 tsp Sugar,
ice, mint served in a metal cup.
Photo credit: Kyle Durrie at the William Faulkner House in Oxford, MS.
There is also a privacy issue with Twttr. Every user has a public page that shows all of their messages. Messages from that person’s extended network are also public. I imagine most users are not going to want to have all of their Twttr messages published on a public website.
Posted on July 15, 2006.
Luis Camnitzer, Landscape As An Attitude, 1979
Silver Gelatin Photograph, 10” x 8”
The Beach Boys perform “Okie from Muskogee”.
Apparently from a broadcast on ABC.
The Beach Boys present
Good Vibrations From Central Park
July 2, 1971
with guests
Boz Scaggs, Kate Taylor, Carly Simon, Ike & Tina Turner
NOTES
Directed by John Moffitt. Live at Wollman Rink in Central Park, New York, July 2, 1971. Broadcast on ABC TV Aug 19, 1971. This was the year Carly Simon released her first album Anticipation and her first TV appearance.
Intro
Happy Days - Boz Scaggs
Barefooted - Kate Taylor
Beach Boys Set
Heroes & Villains
Okie From Muskogie
Forever
It’s About Time
I Get Around
Anticipation - Carly Simon
That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon
Ike & Tina Turner Set
Honky Tonk Women
Proud Mary
I Wanna Take You Higher
Jim Shaw, Martian Portraits, 1978
Black and white photograph, series of 4 photographs, 14 x 11 inches
Part of the Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1973-1977 exhibition up now at PRISM in LA.
Now available as a 3lp box set…
“Suicide Is Painless” is a song written by Johnny Mandel (music) and Mike Altman (lyrics), which is best known for being featured as the theme song for both the movie and TV series MASH. Mike Altman is the son of the original film’s director, Robert Altman, and was 14 years old when he wrote the song’s lyrics. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1980s, Robert Altman said that his son earned more than a million US dollars for co-writing the song while he only made US $70,000 for directing the movie.
And there was yet another plan which came out of that short but endlessly significant journey — which took us to Milan too, and from there, diverted through a cholera scare, to Stressa and Paris— a plan the bordered on lunacy but was worked out by the two of us with determination and continual new jests. We hit upon the idea of creating a new type of guidebook. The series was to be called “On The Cheap.” There were to be titles like “On The Cheap Through Switzerland,” “On The Cheap In Paris,” etc. Franz [Kafka] was untiring and took a childish pleasure in compiling, down to the finest details, the principles of this type that was to make millionaires of us and above all take us out of the hideous routine of office work. I then wrote in all seriousness and put our plans for “The Reform of Guidebooks” up to publishers. Negotiations always broke down on the point that we refused to deliver up our precious secret without an enormous advance.
