Horribly sunburnt
April 23rd, 2008My entire face and head are sunburnt.
Dyna Moe is sunburnt.
Ellie Kemper is sunburnt.
Paul Rondeau is sunburnt.
For some reason, I didn’t imagine this happening when I decided to film on the beach in April. It wasn’t particularly warm. The sun did not seem particularly bright. But here I am—my face feeling as though its been stung by a hundred wasps.
Have you seen my show “Mister Glasses”? It’s good, I think.
The next episode will prominently feature this Western Electric model 500 telephone:
It was designed by Henry Dreyfuss and released in 1949. When you think “rotary telephone” you think of this phone. This is the phone of your early childhood, but perhaps it was in beige or green, maybe with touch-tone buttons. AT&T was responsible for the upkeep of these phones. As I understand it, when you signed up for phone service, you were given one of these, but they were owned by the company. Strange. It explains why they’re so mind-bogglingly sturdy. Nothing today is designed like a model 500 telephone; it is a phone designed as if under a Communist regime, a phone where the makers were hoping it would never break down. Today we design phones to be thrown in the garbage.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Remember to return that to the guy.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Oh yeah, the one I grew up with was dark red and touch-tone. I took it with me to college.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:31 am
The one at my grandparents house, in the space where you put your own number, had the number represented the old way with a couple of leading letters.
I want to find the old AT&T of shoemakers. I am very unhappy with the fact that Kenneth Cole, Johnston & Murphy, and Aldo have all emulated the disposable phone market. I have bought shoes from these companies, and they have all fallen apart. I am thinking of cydwoq, but oh, how expensive! Then again, if I had a guarantee or even a strong sense that they would do me right, I’d buy them without pause.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
doc you should get your shoes handmade by an italian shoemaker like the pope does.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:41 pm
“Following The Boxer, Daniel Day-Lewis took a leave of absence from acting … . He moved to Florence, Italy, where he became intrigued by the craft of shoemaking, eventually apprenticing as a shoemaker for a time while his exact whereabouts and actions were not made publicly known.[11] ”
There Will Be Shoes.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
1949 was the year the Soviets tested their own atom bomb. I wonder if the 500 was built to withstand nuclear attack.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Hate to break the news, but it is a lesson I have come to learn: expensive ($500) shoes go the distance. Time and again I have bought less expensive, nice-looking shoes only to find that they fall apart after one year. Good shoes last 20 years (need to always put cedar shoe trees in them though). So, put your money into a pair of quality shoes – it pays.
Wow, was that ever a funny commentary on shoes! I mean, hah-ha, wow, phew, cracks me up. Shoes are funny.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I guess Mark is right: I have to go buy $500 shoes. But will they really last 20 years? I’d take 10. I want an LL Bean guarantee from a shoe that doesn’t look like LL Bean. Maybe LL Bean makes dress shoes? I have to go look.
I broke down and bought a pair of cydwoqs, so we’ll see how those do.