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"Girl In a Million" (ALL-STORY LOVE, March 27, 1937).

Art by Robert Todd.

A very early version of the so-called "Cute Meet." beloved of the writers of Rom-Coms

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The Palmolive Building and Michigan Avenue at night, featuring lights strung on trees and the building’s beacon, Chicago, December 21, 1960. Hedrich-Blessing collection

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11:13 PM EST December 21, 2024:

Young Mc - “Bust A Move” From the album Stone Cold Rhymin’ (September 5, 1989)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

It is in fact all about the rhymes

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Slip-In Mules (No High Heel Sneakers) - Sugar Pie DeSanto ‎(Slip-In Mules (No High Heel Sneakers) / Mr. & Mrs., 1964)

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One of the greatest images of Christmas cheer ever assembled from the flotsam and effluvia of our culture. (Also the cover of _Christmas Curiosities_ by John Grossman which is responsible for getting me into this in the first place.)

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LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1927)

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Bonnie Bonnell, Ted Healy, Larry Fine, and Moe and Curly Howard on set of PLANE NUTS (1933). Bonnell served as the "lady Stooge" in several of the Ted Healy-Three Stooges MGM shorts.

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Tuesday Night Music Club No. 45 - 'Witch For A Night' by Sugar Pie DeSanto

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RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964) dir. larry roemer & kizo nagashima

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Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"

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First you post rap, then you ID an obvious Beatles-era pic as Wings.

What goes on?

Paul McCartney & Wings

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Charles Addams The Little Dears, They Still Believe in Santa Claus, from the "New Yorker" 1952

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Charles Addams Suddenly I Have a Dreadful Urge to Be Merry, from the "New Yorker" 1967

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Henk Hilterman, Silhouette of Father and Son in the Dark with newly purchased Christmas Tree walking down the Street, 1949