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The web site of author and newspaper columnist James Lileks, "Your Source for Defenseless Ephemera Since 1996." Lileks started his "Daily Bleat" in 1997, well before the term "blog" swept in. And he has a podcast (gotta keep trendy, yaknow?) But the part I like best is the Institute of Official Cheer ("Where the past is brought back to life, and promptly beaten to death again.") It includes the Gallery of Regrettable Food and Interior Desecrations. There are also interesting sections on kitschy memorabilia, like motel and diner postcards, matchbook covers, old newspaper ads, and the Engraveyard -- old money from around the world. It's the kind of garbage I'd put on the web if I wasn't already so danged busy. From This is True for 20 November 2005 Suggestions for further reading:
 by James Lileks Amazon Price: $15.61 Customer Review: Lot's of laughs in this book expecially if you grew up in those wonderful years where adding a little spice was very adventurous...even suspect. Garlic? Out of the question. I remember the jellied salads very well. At home, it's not Christmas if t...  by James Lileks Amazon Price: $12.24 Customer Review: Not as good as "The Gallery of Regrettable Food", but still a great, amusing coffee table book that friends will enjoy thumbing through.  by James Lileks Amazon Price: $12.24 Customer Review: Ah! That tawdry era of addled reverie and unbridled tastelessness, in which a battered, underdeveloped culture was wrapped in meretricious polyester, dipped in a melange of candy-colored prints and sprinkled with cocaine. For better and worse, no dec...  by James Lileks Amazon Price: Customer Review: How can you resist a book with a line like: "How many 'My little ponies' gave their blood for that meatball sauce?" Would also give it six stars if I could. Notes of a Nervous Man: Notes of a Nervous Man by James Lileks Amazon Price: Customer Review: James Lileks has been compared to Dave Barry, and in many ways you might find the comparison apt because there is of course an overlap in attitude and "content". Of course "content" is not an issue in either of these great guys' books or columns. Bo... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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