Offline is the new luxury

Art by Kaoru Yamada

Good morning. ☕️

Doo Wop Diner on the Boardwalk in New Jersey (temporarily closed)

"Right on cue.
Girl drama."
Takes notes.

My sister made leg lamp Christmas cookies!

Can't look away from that train wreck . Coach, you know how to pick em."

Sunday by Edward Hopper, 1926

Elsa Lanchester >the Bride of Frankenstein

“Stardom is all hard work, aspirins and purgatives.”

Famous for Bride of Frankenstein, her career included theater, film & tv, in America & the UK. My faves > Bell, Book, & Candle, Witness for the Prosecution & Mystery Street.

#TCMParty #Oscar #filmsky

Good morning. 11 days until Halloween...

Lucille Ball in a publicity still for #TheBigStreet (1942) #NoirAlley
#TCMParty

"This generation totally overshares. Ma'am, we do not need to know when your last period was..."

Unless it's to prove parentage.

"Revenge is a dish best served cold with a hoard of garlic. Wards off vampires too."

Good morning. ☕️

I hope everyone has a great day.

"Well couldn't stand that dribble.
The door is shut again."

"It's not really goodbye if she shows up on the doorstep every night drinking."

Nico, did you piss off your girl again?
I see angry poetry written on the storefront.

Noir Summer #vibes

A maroon and aluminum mid-century office chair in a corner. A chrome floor lamp is next to it, lit, creating intense shadows above it. The wall behind the lamp is green, and the floor is wood

Moving some things around and accidentally created an Edward Hopper painting in the corner of my living room

Please support your local record store...

#vinyl #vinylrecords

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall exhausted while on location for The African Queen film.

Sunday

the inside of a box of six colorful donuts

DONUT RUN DONUT RUN DONUT RUN

a black and white photo of a man in a suit standing in front of a building . ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit standing in front of a building .

Film Noir Mood #tbt #ThursdayVibes #film #noir #cinema #FilmNoir #movies #FilmSky 📽️🍁🎬

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Thank you kind cheerleader 🫶🏻

"It's Pat O'Neeley." Jean corrects him using the eraser tip to dial the rotary phone. One letter and number at a time.
Exchanges for streets and storefronts. The number rings and rings. No answer .
"He might be down at the bar by now." Lazy man's supper.

The shattered cup breaks her concentration. A dust pan picks up the fragments. A towel sops up tea from a ratty carpet.
"I shall scream if I see a mouse again."
A pained sigh leaves her lips.

She bites a pencil nervously listening to the exchange. Tap tap tap.
Writes a few notes on the steno pad.
Names addresses. Important details . Maybe some non important ones. -

When store fronts were cool...

📷 Los Angeles, California

a black and white photo of a man and a woman dancing on a ice rink . ALT: a black and white photo of a man and a woman dancing on a ice rink .

"Bluesky is dead."

Meanwhile, on Bluesky