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Nice! I don't have to drive to Madison to see copies of Moving Picture World after all! The internet is just a godsend for distribution of information.

http://archive.org/search.php?query=moving%20picture%20world%20AND%20collection%3Amediahistory

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Do any astronomers read this? My school library is having a book sale and I saw a four volume set of Smithsonian astronomy books. The first book was just pages, and page, and pages, and pages of tables of stars and info about them. If you give me the $2 a piece, I'll pick 'em up for you.

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This is rough. I'm trying to tie a lot of concepts together that I think will mesh really well, but they don't do it in straight-forward and direct ways. A lot of my "writing" time is being spent thinking of how to put them together in ways that show their conceptual similarity. Things like democratization vs. individualization of consumer culture tied to activeness and passiveness in the consumptive experience. Performance of class role tied to self-image and creation of self-identity.
And after being told by the professor (the chair of the history department) that "I have a career as a writer ahead of me", that he's looking forward to reading my paper, and that he'd love to have me as a history major when I declare my second one, I'm nervous that my paper won't live up to expectations. Because I always worry that my work won't live up to expectations. I have to work on that....

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Wait; there's a clothing maker called Bonobos? Does wearing their clothing make you start using sex to resolve a wide variety of social tensions?

I think they might have a big potential market at certain conventions...

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How great is this? Seriously.
Architect Charles S. Lee, one of the later movie palace architects, designed a building in Hollywood to house the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. He included bas-relief bands of classical-Greek inspired figures representing various aspects of motion picture production.
They were all nude.
They were also directly facing the windows of the Hays Office, responsible for ensuring "morality" of films.
Lee liked to say he'd introduced "the first porno in Hollywood".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_%26_Western_Building

Ironic that it eventually was used to produce porn.