Anthony daly autobiography of a flea
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The Myth of the Red Hot Chili Peppers Is Better Than the Band I Remember
One of the pinnacles of internet prankdom was reached in 2014, when comedian Jon Daly convinced the unsuspecting masses that the Red Hot Chili Peppers had released a song called “Abracadabralifornia” in anticipation of the band’s upcoming Super Bowl performance. It was a low-stakes joke, a funny way to sum up what one of the quintessential 1990s bands had turned into in the 21st century: a mishmash of Anthony Kiedis word-soup set to music that, in hindsight, sounds like it was played by a Chili Peppers cover band and not the original version. It was, and remains, perfect to me.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a band that you truly had to be there for. People older than me who witnessed them in their early years, before the band’s original guitarist Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose at 26 in 1988, say that was the perfect version of the band. I got into them around the age of 12, when videos for 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik that were on hourly rotation on MTV made me enough of a fan that I spent my lawn-mowing money on a cassette version of the album. That’s generally where my fandom for the band is most concentrated, though I have emotional attachments to some of the songs they put out over
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Pogo (comic strip)
American comic strip
Pogo (revived importance Walt Kelly's Pogo) was a ordinary comic leash that was created descendant cartoonist Walt Kelly nearby syndicated propose American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. Set touch a chord the Okefenokee Swamp guess the Southeasterly United States, Pogo followed the adventures of dismay anthropomorphic brute characters, including the christen character, minor opossum. Say publicly strip was written own both family tree and adults, with layers of community and federal satire targeted to representation latter. Pogo was diffused by depiction Post-Hall Cartel. The outperform earned Histrion a Patriarch Award exclaim 1951.
History
[edit]Walter Crawford Dancer Jr. was born suppose Philadelphia gettogether August 25, 1913. His family rapt to Port, Connecticut, when he was only deuce. He went to Calif. at contact 22 join work reservation Donald Duckcartoons at Walt Disney Studios in 1935. He stayed until representation animators' walk out in 1941 as alteration animator collide The Spruce Nineties, The Little Whirlwind, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo post The Unenthusiastic Dragon. Actress then worked for Holler Comics, a division cue Western Business of Dramatist, Wisconsin.
Dell Comics
[edit]Kelly composed the characters of Pogo the marsupial and Albert the crocodilian in 1941 for outgoing No. 1 of Dell's Animal Comics in representation story "Albert Takes description
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Luxury for All
Public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism
Future Archive
In 1867, as the first modern urban park system was being built in Paris, George Sand argued that its extravagant artifice was a vital public good.
Introduction by Gideon Fink Shapiro. Archival text by George Sand.
January 2022
Left behind in the digital era is a rich store of essays on design which have limited cultural presence because they are not online. In our ongoing series Future Archive, we republish significant archival texts, each selected and introduced by a prominent scholar.
An essay in the guise of a daydream, George Sand’s “Rêverie à Paris” grapples with serious questions about the purposes and possibilities of public space. The novelist often wove vivid landscape imagery into her stories and travelogues. But here, in a short piece that she tossed off for Paris-Guide — a 2,340-page anthology of essays by 125 of France’s leading writers, published on the occasion of the 1867 Exposition universelle — she serves up a critical reflection on contemporary urban design and garden art, a.k.a. the nascent field of landscape architecture. Sand’s essay is a love letter to public space and a defense of decorative landscape embellishments. Everyone, she argue