#newstands

[efsacco]

Friendly Village: a second grade trip

Remembering the dissonance of a second grade reader in the Bronx

PS 25 in 1905.  I attended some 55 years later. The school is still there, on 811 E 149th St. NYC.gov That diasporic feeling  There is no one place or time when diaspora occurs…it is a perpetual space of change and displacement. An awareness. It’s a process I share with many, whether by blood, place or experience, with locations linked by oceans and shaped by the relentless squeeze for money…

[cosmophoriia]

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winning them back : exes to lovers

levels of intimacy

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[federer7]

Newstand, 1955

Photo: Louis Stettner

[pygian-weapon]

it's always the audiobooks with the most embarassing covers that deliver the best narrator voices

[retropopcult]

Playboy’s Miss January 1983, Lonny Chin, and her sister Gail, 1984.

[brasiliangp]

damn I just wanna buy tickets to see my husband (christian pulisic) but ac milan is making this process so damn hard

[frc-ambaradan]

Nice! Topolino #3500 came out this morning and there's already people selling it on ebay for triple the price! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I've seen a 10€ (+ 6€ shipping) bidding for a 3.20€ comic book you can easily buy at the newstand. 35€ for the Topolino with the Scrooge figurine which is sold at 12.90€!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! It's Topolino! It's barely worth the cover price, people. Come on! 🤦‍♀️

It's ok if you want something so badly you're willing to over pay it, but be mindful of its true value. Don't fall for these things. This is speculation.

[creative-anchorage]

The journalist Doug Main said on Twitter on Tuesday: “National Geographic is laying off its staff writers, including me.” The organization’s future editorial work will instead be done by freelance writers and the few editors remaining on staff, the Post reported. [...] In a statement, a spokesperson for the magazine said: “National Geographic will continue to publish a monthly magazine that is dedicated to exceptional multi-platform storytelling with cultural impact. Staffing changes will not change our ability to do this work, but rather give us more flexibility to tell different stories and meet our audiences where they are across our many platforms. Any insinuation that the recent changes will negatively impact the magazine, or the quality of our storytelling, is simply incorrect.”

Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9

[melbmemories]

news stand at Spencer Street, July 1936 - from the National Library of Australia's album of photographs relating to advertising on Victorian railway properties

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

It's not really a second hand.

vishnu has many

[cosmophoriia]

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[rabbitlost]

My favorite comic run is spider-girl. It has over 100 issues. Do you want to know what issue the omnibus stopped at? Issue 67. They don't even have collections of the relaunch. If they continued to make the omnibus, I would buy them, but that would be too smart for Marvel.

comic sales are down because the industry is inaccessible and expensive, not because piracy exists

Higher piracy rates are what happens when you make buying comics expensive, difficult, platform-dependent, and inherently exclusionary while pretending trades and digital don't count as sales.

if any single comic book company decided to be a competent publishing company for even a year comic piracy rates would plummet

[kettle-bird]

Not Coming to a Newstand Near You

(I know I've made that joke before let me have this)

[porto-rosso]

comics publishers will ask why comic sales have gone down so much in the last few decades and it shockingly turns out they used to be sold in gas stations/newsstands/supermarkets like...

[vox-anglosphere]

King's Cross has been one of London's busiest hubs for centuries.

Kings Cross, London in 1899

The newspaper billboard in the foreground appears to refer to the execution of Mary Ansell who poisoned her sister Caroline to get the proceeds of an insurance settlement. Ansell was hanged on 19th July 1899

[kenandeliza]

small headcanon, at one point, Freddy "accidentally started a gang"

Some lines are made by @the-brash-spud

I could see it as him saving the kids who were a part of the gangs/criminal organization that treated them poorly and put them as part of the association of newsboys (where he is also president over) as part to reform them, have them earn money the less criminal way and these kids mistakenly thought they are under another criminal organization and that the newsboys are just a cover up just like their old jobs in criminal organizations where they hid it under with presentable business operation. Since the other kids over there kept calling Freddy, "Prez" or "president", they assumed he's the head boss of their new crime organization just for little boys like them now

F: "Alright, I have stationed your newstands on this part of New York City, and if there's anything that goes wrong, let me know, alright?"

-meanwhile what they hear-

"this territory is ours, don't lose it to other gang members and protect anyone in the area, and yes tommy, you can point your tommy gun to shoot at their balls, i use a shotgun crutch to do the same anyway"

At one point, Freddy tells them to ask the new suburban neighbourhood if they want deliveries, and they understand it as "intimidate those people Into agreeing," and Freddy then has to go door to door next day apologising

Freddy: "give me strength, I am this close to giving up"

Kids:" but aren't cha proud of us boss?"

Freddy:"i-"

The kids look up to him expectantly with wide adorable eyes

Freddy:"...I think you lot could do better, I am happy that you are improving... but I don't want to see headlines of Gang members having their willies shot next time."

The boys:"got it! We'll remove their fingernails instead!"

Freddy:"NO!"