A painting by Camillo Innocenti (1871-1961)
Archive for August, 2011
Stirring Tea
Posted in Art, Tea on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Marion Davies
Posted in Film on August 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Saw this picture of Marion Davies today, and it reminded me that after a visit to Hearst Castle in San Simeon in October of 2001, I wrote this about her: “Marion Davies was a Ziegfeld Girl who Hearst loved and sought, successfully, to make into a film star. A gifted comic actress, she has never [...]
Plucking Tea
Posted in Postcards, Tea on August 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
August Roeseler, Beer & Dachshunds
Posted in Advertising, Art, Beer, Dogs on August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Hofbräuhaus menu collected in April of 1969, with art by August Roeseler (1866-1934). He was born in Hamburg in 1866, but spent most of his life in Munich, working as a fine artist, commercial artist, illustrator for books, magazines and postcards, and as a cartoonist. In addition to his work for the Hofbräuhaus, he [...]
Bookstore Bag
Posted in Advertising, Art on August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From a scrapbook created by Laurie Winship to remember a trip to Germany, circa 1969.
I Know the Truth When I See It
Posted in Art on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hills Brothers’ Tea Office, Japan
Posted in Postcards, Tea on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tea Plantation, Shidzuoka
Posted in Postcards, Tea on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bringing in the Cheese
Posted in Cheese, Postcards on August 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
March Madness
Posted in Art, Literature, Postcards, sports, Tea on August 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
March Madness began not with a basketball, but rather with the English hare whose breeding season commences in March and prompts the bunnies to engage in odd behavior, with males jumping vertically and females boxing with their forelegs to rebuff unwanted suitors. To be “as mad as a March hare” is an Old English phrase [...]
