#harry b richards

[slidesworthseeing]

Found stereo slide: Sydney Opera House from the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout, March 2002. Photo by Harry Richards

[astralbondpro]

Ninja Terminator (1986) // Dir. Godfrey Ho

[georgeromeros]

The Haunting (1963) dir. Robert Wise

[joydoesathing]

the beginning of the cold

finished making the cold war era potus girlies

here's part 1 and 2 (context for this mini art series is in the captions of these posts)

[diioonysus]

men's fashion + art

[deadpresidents]

Will the flags be at half staff for the inauguration of trump? If so has that ever happened before where flags were at half staff during a presidential inauguration?

Great question!

When a President dies, the flag is lowered to half-staff for 30 days from the time of his death, so yes, the flags will be at half-staff on Inauguration Day (January 20th).

I don't know how often it has happened, but this will not be the first time that the flag is at half-staff during a Presidential Inauguration. Richard Nixon's Second Inauguration took place less than a month after the death of former President Harry S. Truman (on December 26, 1972). You can see the flags at half-staff in this photo of the Capitol during Nixon's Second Inauguration, on January 20, 1973.

Two days after Nixon's Second Inauguration, his immediate predecessor and the only other living President at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson also died. LBJ's death nearly 52 years ago was the last time a Democratic President had died until President Carter's death yesterday.

[politicalrpf]

1982 political cartoon by Paul Conrad.

[originalleftist]

This election feels like it has become a second chance, in more ways than one.

In 2016, we had a battle between the "old guard" of the Democratic Party and the progressive wing, and though the old guard won the primary, the divisiveness and bitterness of it, sometimes spilling over into open bigotry, nearly torn the party apart (I also think there is exactly zero to be gained from trying to rehash which side was more to blame for that, and will delete any comments doing so).

Then after Clinton became the nominee, we had a chance to elect the first female President. Instead, we lost to Donald Trump, and our country plunged into this ongoing existential threat.

Going back further, in 1968 a Democratic incumbent facing backlash from progressives against an overseas war dropped out, and instead of uniting behind an alternative, the party faced a divisive primary, riots at the convention (also held in Chicago, no less), and a loss in November to Richard Nixon.

Now, we have the Democratic incumbent dropping out ahead of the primary in Chicago- but the party has swiftly united around a strong alternative.

We had big donors and party insiders try to push Biden out, toss the primary results completely, and hold a "mini-primary" of insiders to pick a presumably corporate-friendly nominee- but instead all major wings of the party have swiftly united around a new nominee with a progressive voting record in the Senate to rival Sentors Sanders'.

Now, we again have a woman running for President against Donald Trump once again. And it remains to be seen if history will repeat... or if we will get it right this time.

So many people were dreading a rematch between Biden and Trump. But it seems that instead, Biden's withdrawal and Harris's extraordinarily strong campaign have given us a rare and precious chance to, in a sense, "rerun" some of America's (and the Democratic Party's) greatest failures.

Let's get it right this time.

[haredjarris]

please someone join me in thirsting over these screencaps of jared looking thicker than a snickers and twice as delicious 😳

those other guys are also here. his beloved brothers or whatever

[secondhandskoot]

Here's some photos from my stash of Jaws era Carl Gottlieb (aka Harry Meadows in the film)

[sesiondemadrugada]

The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927).

[slidesworthseeing]

Found stereo slide: Happy Lunar New Year! Dragon Wall, Chinese Garden of Friendship, Darling Harbour, Warrane Sydney, March 2002. Photo by Harry B Richards

[jingle-bones]

Supernatural fantasy romance from Hollywood’s golden age. Read my review of Beyond Tomorrow (1940) here:

[of-fear-and-love]

Screens, gauges, knobs & buttons from The Bedford Incident (1965)

[vice-prez-douglas]

Some of our many wonderful vice presidents and also sonic the hedgehog