George Gershwin, #BOTD 1898 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQde...

Glenn Gould, #BOTD 1932 A very Canadian documentary from 1959: www.nfb.ca/film/glenn_g...

Doorway in Finale Borgo, Finale Ligure, province of Savona 📷by me, 2019 #Italy #DoorsOnThursday

Share (one of) your favorite black and white film(s). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS6y...

Ray Charles, #BOTD 1930 That is all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIB1...

Wife Appreciation Day, continued. Has anyone posted Phyllis Dietrichson yet? (Wife of the Year for 1944.)

Today is Wife Appreciation Day Post a favorite wife! (From TV or Film)

Take a bow Ryan Grim

Anna Karina, #BOTD 1940 (As good an excuse as any to post this clip.) 🎬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=61H_...

Straight lines by Luigi Vanvitelli in the garden at Reggia di Caserta, near Naples, #Italy 📷s by me, 2009 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) "Rome, Italy, 1959" (from Ellott Erwitt's Rome, teNeues Publishing, 2009) #Caturday #Rome 📷

RIP Elaine Dewar (1948–2025) digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/in-memoria...

From the Villa Poppea at Oplontis, Campagna 📷by me, 2009 🏺🎨 #FrescoFriday #Italy

Love this song by Eddie Anderson #BOTD 1905! (Composed by Frank Loesser & Jimmy McHugh)🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5y6...

A #Stereopticon card, probably 1905-10, showing Bay Street, the Temple Building (built 1868; demolished 1970) and Toronto City Hall (built 1899). One of a set of #Toronto scenes I found in the basement. #ThingThursday #Photography

Reposting on Anne Bancroft's birthday. #BOTD 1931. 🎬

Lauren Bacall #BOTD 1924 📷Louise Dahl-Wolfe, in Harper's Bazaar, 1943 #LaurenBacall #LouiseDahl-Wolfe

Another relic (pub. 1934; missing its dustjacket, alas) from my mother's bookshelf, by Robert Benchley, #BOTD in 1889. 📚 The contents are very much in the New Yorker style of the era. I love the generous margins and substantial paper stock. "How to Sleep" (see quoted post below) is on YouTube.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaraoke 🎶 This week's Challenge was, er, a challenge. I'm too old, tired & inhibited to ever engage in it, but I did recognize a couple of numbers on a "Top 100 Karaoke Songs" list. [Note: love Sinatra, loathe My Way.] Here's a good one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8IY...

Let's pause our doom-scrolling and dance with Mel Tormé - #BOTD 1925 - and Nat King Cole, 1957 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovp...

Ben Shahn #BOTD 1898 Book cover for SJ Perelman's The Rising Gorge, 1961 📚🎨

Just muted *another* name on here, and it's so peaceful now. (Nameless allusions do get though, but temporary muting reduces your exposure by 90%.)

Herbert Lom #BOTD 1917 & Peter Sellers (along with Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker & Danny Green) have Katie Johnson surrounded in this cast photo from The Ladykillers (dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1955). 🎬 📷by Hal Hanscombe National Portrait Gallery, London

Emerging from today's ES rabbit hole with a work by my favorite fashion illustrator, Etienne Drian (1890-1973) Elsa Schiaparelli dans son salon huile, gouache et aquarelle sur papier fort 46.6x58.4 cm. Personal Collection of Schiaparelli; Sold at Christie's, 2014 🎨 #Drian #Schiaparelli

We all need beautiful, irrational things.

Left: Drawing by Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli - #BOTD 1890 - for the Le Roi Soleil perfume bottle. Right: ES photographed by Man Ray. #Schiaparelli #Fashion #Dali #ManRay

Oh, to be in 2019 again. View from the Villa Fontana, Agliano Terme, Province of Asti, Piedmont, #Italy 📷by me #WindowsOnWednesday

Peter Sellers #BOTD 1925 One of my favorites (there are so many): The Peup-Out Lighter 🎬 #PinkPanther #InspectorClouseau #PeterSellers www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEE_...

Happy heavenly birthday to Peter Sellers - 100 today! - and his erstwhile colleague Harry Secombe (104!)

Yes! This (Titian's The Young Englishman, 1540-45) is the portrait that stopped me in my tracks in the Pitti Palace: a completely real person - although identity unknown in this case, I think - calmly looking back at the viewer. 🎨 #Titian #PalazzoPitti

Vintage, late 1980s (Only yesterday, kids!) A 1920s pastiche by Adrienne Vittadini. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJetBlack #1980sFashion

And furthermore. (It's #Caturday, after all) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLaf...

Dr I trust more than RFK Jr.

Alison Lurie, American writer #BOTD 1926 Seen here in 1967, photographed by Anthony (or Violet) Powell on one of her regular summer visits to The Chantry. From the 4th volume of Powell's memoirs, "The Strangers All Have Gone."

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

Capannori, Province of Lucca, Italy Villa Reale di Marlia 📷 By me, 2017 #StairsOnSaturday #Italy

"When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook and start the whole thing over again." Remembering the great and razor-sharp, Oscar-winning playwright, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Preston Sturges on his 127th birthday. #BOTD on 8/29/1898

"They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice." -Donald O'Connor #BOTD O'Connor in "Make 'Em Laugh" for "Singin' in the Rain " (1952)

🎞️🕺🎂Happy Donald O'Connor's Birthday!

Temple E, at Selinunte, Sicily, 460–450 BC [Per Wikipedia: Its current appearance is the result of anastylosis (reconstruction using the original material) carried out – controversially – between 1956 and 1959.] 📷by me, 2009 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic #Sicily #Selinunte🏛️🏺

Remembering Lester Young on his birthday 🎂 📷 Eliot Elisofon, 1954 "He was the gentle bedeviled genius whose vision of beauty found expression even though he was hounded throughout his life by nearly every demon the twentieth century had managed to spawn." - Douglas Ramsey

Man Ray #BOTD 1890 Les Larmes, c.1932 #Photography

Poster, 1928, for Baratti & Milano, chocolate makers in Turin. #Chocolate #Turin #Italy #ArtDeco

w/o downloading anything new, where are you at mentally?

In these silent, ghostly images from 1940 of Gene Kelly on stage in Pal Joey (which I meant to post yesterday), Van Johnson - #BOTD 1916 - enters from stage left @ 0.41. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivWi... #VanJohnson #GeneKelly #PalJoey

Paris, August 25, 1944. Crowds celebrating the liberation of the city. © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography | Magnum Photos #Paris1944 #RobertCapa 📷

Jean Rhys #BOTD 1890 Penguin paperbacks, 1969 and 1970, with cover illustrations by Faith Jacques, of novels originally published in (L to R) 1934, 1939 and 1930. 📚 #JeanRhys #FaithJacques #PenguinPaperbacks

Girl in hat, Patras, Greece, 1966 📷B. Mercier #AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHat