Face it, most blogs don't make you smarter. THIS one does. It's iconic photos and the reasons behind them and I actually got smarter reading in the archives. It's an awesome place. Oh, and Robert Johnson is my hero, with or without the smoke.
Face it, most blogs don't make you smarter. THIS one does. It's iconic photos and the reasons behind them and I actually got smarter reading in the archives. It's an awesome place. Oh, and Robert Johnson is my hero, with or without the smoke.
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they took the cigarette out of bette davis' stamp pix too...wasn't her they did that too? so ridiculous....it'd be like groucho with no cigar...some people smoke and it's part of their image....
I know, it's part of our history. I think it's really stupid to try and hide it.
Check out the Brooke Shields photos on there. I had never seen them and didn't know what the hubub was about back then. Holy smokes!
Of course he smoked! he probably rolled his own. Who cares? It was the time. I just created my onw radio station for my computer at work. At Songza. Its awesome. I have everything on there from the Stones to John Williams. John Mellencamp is playing right now. The Authority Song! Awesome! Its fun and it can be playing all day while I work & rock! This is a cool pic BTW. I love old black dudes and their stories. In Biloxi I was always watching them and how they talked & walked and dressed. I loved it. It was a culture that is fascinating to me. They almost make music when they just look at you or walk. It's like magic. I can't explain. Gawd, I am talking like I'm high today. I am NOT! Trust me. I just ate a Lean Cuisine lunch tho. So, thats pretty yummy. LOL
Rox
xoxo
HOLY SHIT! just checked out the brooke shields photos! i remember reading about them in the daily mail UK last year, as some gallery was gonna display them and brooke and a lot of watch dog groups raised a huge stink about them (as they smacked of kiddie porn, were inappropriate, etc) and they got pulled.....
what the hell was her mother thinking when she allowed those photos to be taken!?!?!?!??!?!?
Her mother was a drunk.
That first picture of Brooke Shields looks like an adults head on a childs body. Creepy...and just not right.
Kinda like the little Jenner/Kardashian girls? Kris Jenner is starting to resemble a pimp to me, and I used to like them. I am rethinking that sh**. Dayum...How does she get away with that with Bruce being so strict? Or is that just an act? Maybe he's not strict, at all. I mean Brody is a wild boy. But Linda, his mom looks like a hooker. All of Hollywood is a bunch of whores and pimps. Right? It always has been.
rox
The stamp looks like Jay-Z.
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/55085491.html?view=9457963955#t9457963955
Completely off topic but I think everyone here will enjoy this.
Robert Johnston had the longest fingers! Some think he had Marfan's syndrome and that's how he could play all those chords of his.
They needed to leave the photo as is.
Cool site. Did they actually take out Churchill's cigar?! Ridiculous
Thanks for sharing this! I went through a couple posts and then bookmarked that site! I love a new blog.
About the Brooke Shields photo... I don't understand why someone would do that. Was the late 70s a more innocent time? That first photo is burned into my brain now and I feel sad and sick.
Thank you for sharing that site. I bookmarked it also. I was reading for like an hour on there.
I remember reading an article about some piece of art that has been considered offensive for many years.... a nude smoking. Many years ago people didn't want their children seeing it because the art was nude, nobody gave a shit about the smoking. Nowadays they don't want their kids seeing it because of the smoking, nobody gives a shit about it being nude.
I know we've been over this before but I am SO TIRED of the anti-smoker shit. The moral outrage that you feel is conditioning. We have been CONDITIONED to be horrified by smoking. I don't mean that people don't like cigarette smoke, I mean that that gasp that people make when they find out that we still have a smoking section in our restaurant was put there by someone else. The sputtering and outright ANGER isn't yours. It was put there by propaganda.
I would love it if there was a restaurant or bar in this city with a smoking section.
I got sick of my sister at xmas waving her hand in front of her face every time I came back in the house from having a smoke. I was outside smoking but I smelled like smoke when I came back in. I finally had enough and told her I would rather smell like smoke than smell like that putrid perfume she was wearing. That shut her up.
Good for you, Peg. You should tell your sister I said to stick a candy cane up her puckered asshole and have a holly, jolly Christmas.
I quit smoking after 25 years. I don't LIKE the smell of cigarettes but dear God, it's not THAT bad. I have yet to need to wave my hand in front of my face because someone was smoking.
Americans are always on the look out for someone to put down so we can feel superior.... this is one of those categories that it's now OK to hate people in. Hell, there are nonsmoking activists out to demand that smokers can't smoke ecigarettes in public. Somebody sat next to me smoking one 3 days into my smoking quit and I didn't even notice. If an ecig didn't set off my alarm when I was withdrawing it doesn't smell. Fuckers.
I hate people who tell me it's bad for me. Do they think that's news? Do they think I'll be horrified and stop? Now, I say, my time is limited and nothing will change that and I won't deny myself a pleasure so I can suffer longer. I am done defending a legal habit.
I get an instant headache when I smell cigarette smoke. It smells horrible to me. New car smells give me the same headache and certain perfumes as well. Estee Lauder's Youth Dew made me want to stab my eyes out from the pain and my mother wore it all the time.
I actually love the smell of tobacco. I wonder if it's the cigarette additives that give me the trouble? I don't have any problem with cigar or pipe smoke. In fact I love pipe smoke so much I'm inclined to follow someone around breathing deeply if they're smoking one, no doubt creeping them out.
So, what I'm saying is, I know I have an acute sensitivity to cigarette smoke but also to other things so it's not cigarettes that's the problem. It's me. I go out of my way to avoid areas where I will be exposed to it.
I have an employee who I station at the other end of the store because of her perfume. I have not told her my reason for this and I don't ask her not to wear perfume. It's important to her to wear it and it's not bothering anyone else. I am not entitled, I feel.
I only have a problem when smokers bring it to me and only because of the headache thing. I hate people blowing their smoke in through our drive through window. I hate equally the behavior of people who will not get off their cell phones while we're trying to serve them. Again it's not really the cigarette smoke or the use of cell phones I have a problem with. I have a problem with the people who are clueless about how rude they are.
I know a lot of smokers and a lot of cell phone users who would never think of doing such things.
I don't think non-smokers have the right to feel superior. I happen to know smokers who are fastidious house keepers. Do they have the right to feel superior to people with more relaxed standards?
Why can't we all just get along?
Frimmy,
That's a good point and I should clarify that my beliefs don't extend to cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke is pretty damned strong and I do believe that it can make someone sick.
Having said that, I am talking about Peg's sister needing to wave her hand in front of her face when Peg comes inside from smoking. That is bitchy and unnecessary. Peg is not blowing smoke on her sister. She's not even smoking in the same damn house. She's coming inside from having smoked and she smells like smoke. It's not the most pleasant smell in the world but it is certainly not that bad. Also, what does waving your hand around accomplish? Does that magically make Peg smell better?
Nonsmokers have the country and it's not enough to force smokers outside to engage in their filthy habit? Now we need to shame them and treat them like children? I'm tired of it. As I said before, we are one of the last restaurants who still have a smoking section. Smokers are so grateful that they can light up in our restaurant that they are almost without fail nicer to the help and better tippers. We do all need to get along but what more can we ask smokers to do? In my restaurant the smokers never complain about where we put them. I could seat them in the dish room and they'd just ask for an ashtray. I am repeatedly bitched at by nonsmokers whose horror can only suggest that they believe the smoking section involves some sort of ritual baby sacrifice. It's annoying and pointless to have to listen to nonsmokers tell me that we should change our policy (Hello? I am a WAITRESS. Corporate doesn't ask me for my opinion on how to run the store.)I especially hate it when I ask someone their smoking preference and they start yammering about how they should just leave while looking at me like I'm supposed to placate them and commiserate with their misery. I always wish those people would just go eat somewhere else but they never do. Why? Because it's fucking inconvenient to find another restaurant. Oh, but we can't inconvenience nonsmokers now, can we?
re: Peg's sister
Yep, I agree, I hate that kind of hypocritical posturing and it only accomplishes making the person doing it look stupid. My mom is a militant non-smoker with the whole dirty-look sending, clicking the tongue in disgust and waving the hands at the smoker thing. Meanwhile, her perfume reeked and made me sick and so did the way she yelled at and belittled my father. But THAT'S not offensive to anyone, apparently.
Non-smokers can be a self-righteous bunch. They're still dying of something.
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