#1930s — Public Fediverse posts

These vintage photos offer a charming glimpse into picnic culture during the 1930s. From family gatherings on grassy hillsides to casual outdoor meals shared on blankets, the images capture the simple pleasures of eating and socializing in nature during a time of economic hardship and social change.
https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/1930s-picnics.html #globalmuseum #photography #TheGreatDepression #1930s

The Coconet: Historic photographs of Tonga brought to life in new digital collection. “A remarkable collection of historic photographs capturing Tongan life throughout the 20th century is now available online, offering families across Tonga and the diaspora a chance to reconnect with the people, places and traditions of generations past. The August Hettig Collection, now held by Auckland […]

17 Great Depression recipes people still use during hard times https://www.diningandcooking.com/2754386/17-great-depression-recipes-people-still-use-during-hard-times-2/ #19291939 #1930s #AshCakes #Cooking #food #FrugalMeals #GreatDepression #GreatDepressionCake #GreatDepressionFood #GreatDepressionMeals #GreatDepressionRecipe #GreatDepressionRecipes #GreatDepressionSoup #GreatestGeneration #HooverStew #RecipeTopics #Recipes #RivelSoup #SoupRecipes #StewRecipes #TheGreatDepression #TomatoSoupCake #WackyCake #WaterPie

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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.

I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.

It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.

I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.

It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....

#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism

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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.

I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.

It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.

I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.

It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....

#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism

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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.

I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.

It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.

I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.

It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....

#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism

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As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.

I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.

It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.

I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.

It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....

#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism

🧵 1/2

As an impecunious teenager in the UK years ago, I was delighted to pick up this recording of the 5th Symphony of Shostakovitch for 50p at W. H. Smith.

I had already heard and been delighted by the 1st Symphony, so I spent my money on the strength of the composer's name alone.

It's a very different work, of course -- dramatic, bleak at times, but also lyrical and perhaps ironic too. I've never tired of it.

I've listened to some of the other symphonies since then (not the 2nd or 3rd) but come back to the 1st and the 5th as my favourites.

It might not be obvious from the garish album cover that this recording is in fact a reissue of....

#ClassicalMusic #Shostakovitch #5thSymphony #RussianMusic #SovietMusic #20thCenturyMusic #Symphonic #1930s #Stalinism

17 Great Depression recipes people still cook today during hard times

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Ashkenazi Jews

Author’s Note: This post has mentions of Nazis, the Holocaust, & Nazi Germany. We completely understand if you wish to skip over this post. We’ll catch you in the next one!

Also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim.

This is a form of distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish Diaspora. Emerging from the Jewish communities that consolidated during the 10th century in the Rhineland (Western Germany) & northern France. They migrated there from centers such as the Italian peninsula & the Southern Levant. This includes present-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, & Jordan.

After numerous massacres of Jews during the Crusades (11th-13th centuries), they began a gradual eastward migration due to mounting restrictions within the Holy Roman Empire & the favorable policies of Casimir the Great & others.

This diaspora ramped up after the persecution during the Black Death of the 14th century. The bulk of the Ashkenazi Jews had migrated to the Kingdom of Poland (which includes modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, & parts of Russia). This area became the main center of Ashkenazi Jewry until the Holocaust.

Ashkenazim adapted their traditions, rites, & customs to Europe. They traditionally followed the German rite synagogue ritual & until the Holocaust primarily spoke Yiddish, an offshoot of Middle High German written in a variety of the Hebrew script, with significant Hebrew, Aramaic, & Slavic influences.

The Yiddish language progressively declined in prestige, in favor of national languages & Hebrew, being stigmatized by assimilationists & later also Zionists. Though it was spoken by over 11 million people worldwide before the Holocaust. The Yiddishist movement, which sought to preserve & revive the language, faded through the 20th century. Including Duolingo adding Yiddish as a language.

As a proportion of the world Jewish population, Ashkenazim were estimated to be 3% in the 11th century, rising to 92% in 1930, near the population’s peak. The Ashkenazi population was significantly diminished by the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany during WWII, which killed around 6 million Jews. Before WWII, the estimated worldwide Jewish population was 15.3-16.7 million, with 92% being Ashkenazi. As of 2023, the population of Ashkenazim was estimated to be around 10-13 million out of 15.8 million total Jews.

The name Ashkenazi comes from the biblical figure of Ashkenaz. He’s the 1st son of Gomer, grandson of Japhet, great-grandson of Noah, & a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. The name for Gomer has often been linked to the Cimmerians.

The Biblical Ashkenazis are usually derived from Assyrian Askuza, a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates. The name Askuza is identified with the Scythians.

In Jeremiah 51:27, Ashkenaz figures as 1 of 3 kingdoms in the far north, the others being Minni (or Mannaea), an ancient kingdom that flourished in northwestern Iran, & Arrat (corresponding to Urartu), called on by God to resist Babylon.

Ashkenaz is linked to Scandza/Scanzia (usually identified with Scandinavia), viewed as the cradle of Germanic tribes, in the 6th-century gloss to the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius. In the 10th century, in the History of Armenia of Yovhannes Drasxanakertci, Ashkenaz was associated with Armenia.

As it was occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Chimea, & areas to the east. They’re also identified with the Slavim or Slavs. In keeping with the custom of designating areas of Jewish settlement with biblical names, Spain was called Sefarad (Obadiah 20), France was called Tsarefat (I Kings 17:9), & Bohemia was called the Land of Canaan.

Given the close links between the Jewish communities of France & Germany following the Carolingian unification, the term Ashkenazi came to refer to the Jews of both medieval Germany & France.

In later times, the word Ashkenaz is used to designate southern & western Germany, the ritual of which sections differs somewhat from that of eastern Germany & Poland. Thus, the prayer book of Isaiah Horowitz (a prominent rabbi & mystic), & many others, give the piyyutim (a Jewish liturgical poem), according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz & Poland. A Minhag is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition & synagogue ritual follow Ashkenazi practices (German rite). Until the Ashkenazi community 1st began to develop in the Early Middle Ages, the centers of Jewish religious authority were in the Islamic world, at Baghdad & Islamic Spain. German Ashkenaz was so geographically distant that it developed a minhag of its own.

The counterpart of Ashkenazi is Sephardic. Since most non-Ashkenazi Orthodox Jews follow Sephardic rabbinical authorities, whether or not they’re ethnically Sephardic. By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi (a.k.a. Oriental Jews; Jews who lived in the Muslim world) who married into an Orthodox or Haredi (a.k.a. ultra-Orthodox) Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her kids to be Ashkenazi Jews.

On the other hand, an Ashkenazi woman who married a Sephardi or Mizrahi is expected to take on Sephardic practices & the kids will “inherit” a Sephardic identity. Though in practice, many families do compromise. A “convert” usually follows the practice of the rabbinical court (beth din) that converted them.

Culturally, an Ashkenazi Jew can be identified by the concept of Yiddishkeit, which means “Jewishness” in the Yiddish language. Before the Haskalah (a.k.a. the Jewish Enlightenment) & the emancipation of Jews in Europe, this meant the study of the Torah & the Talmud for men, & communal life governed by the observance of Jewish Law for men & women.

From the Rhineland to Riga (the largest city in Latvia) to Romania, most Jews prayed in liturgical Ashkenazi Hebrew, & spoke Yiddish in their secular (worldly) lives. But with modernization, Yiddishkeit now includes not just Orthodoxy & Hasidism, but a broader range of movements, ideologies, practices, & traditions in which Ashkenazi have participated & somehow kept a sense of Jewishness. Although pockets of Jews still speak Yiddish, Yiddishkeit can be identified in manners of speech, styles of humor, & in patterns of association.

As Ashkenazi Jews moved away from Europe, mostly in the form of aliyah to Israel. Or immigration to North America, South Africa, Europe (particularly France), & Latin America, the geographic isolation has given way to mixing with other cultures, & with non-Ashkenazi Jews who, similarly, are no longer isolated in distinct geographic locales.

Hebrew has replaced Yiddish as the primary Jewish language for many Ashkenazi Jews. Although many Hasidic & Hareidi groups still use Yiddish in daily life. Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to, historically, the geographic Land of Israel or the Palestine region, where the State of Israel was established.

France’s blended Jewish community is typical of the cultural recombination that’s going on among Jews throughout the world. Although France expelled its original Jewish population in the Middle Ages, by the time of the French Revolution, there were 2 distinct Jewish populations.

One consisted of Sephardic Jews, originally refugees from the Inquisition (which no one expects! Sorry, we’re Monty Python fans here.) & concentrated in the southwest. While the other community was Ashkenazi, concentrated in formerly German Alsace, & mainly speaking a German dialect similar to Yiddish.

The 3rd community of Provencal Jews living in Comtat Venaissin was technically outside France, & was later absorbed into the Sephardim. Comtat Venaissin (called Comtat, for short) was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791.

But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s. (We’ll be doing a post about the Dreyfus Affair.) In the 1920s & 30s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian Revolution, & the economic turmoil of the Great Depression.

By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, & many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years & the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, 1st by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, & later by Sephardi immigrants & refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone. Francophone refers to people/organizations who use French (language) regularly.

Ashkenazi Jews didn’t transmit their traditions or achievements by text. Instead, these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has often been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe.

In an ethnic sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is a descendant of the Jews who settled in the Central European region of “Ashkenaz.” For roughly 1,000 years, the Ashkenazim were a reproductively isolated population in Europe.

Despite living in many countries, with little inflow or outflow of countries from migration, conversion, or intermarriage with other groups, including other Jews. Since the mid-20th century, many Ashkenazi Jews have intermarried, both with members of other Jewish communities & non-Jews.

Religious persecution of the Jews in Western & Central Europe led to a significant migration of the Ashkenazi Jews into Eastern Europe. This resulted in a major cultural divide between Western/Central & Eastern Ashkenazi communities. In particular, this was reflected in the division of Yiddish into Western & Eastern Yiddish dialects. As well as in other cultural distinctions: traditions, food, dress, etc.

Initially, the Jews of Eastern Europe enjoyed relative freedom in terms of movement, being invited by the kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Over time, the situation was reversed. By the 19th century, the Jews in the West had gradually been integrated into the general society.

While the Eastern Ashkenazi maintained their strict Jewish traditions & were mostly confined to ghettos, especially in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, which incorporated a considerable amount of land where the Eastern Ashkenazi lived: Poland & Lithuania.

Well-known differences in practices include:

• Observance of Passover (Pesach)
  • Ashkenazi Jews traditionally refrain from eating legumes, grain, millet, & rice. Quinoa has become accepted as a food grain in North American communities. Sephardi Jews typically don’t prohibit these foods.
• Notwithstanding stricter requirements for the ACTUAL slaughter, Sephardi Jews permit the rear portions of an animal after proper Halakhic removal of the sciatic nerve. While many Ashkenazi Jews don’t.
• Ashkenazi Jews often name newborns after deceased family members, not after living relatives. Sephardi Jews often name their kids after their grandparents, even if those grandparents are still living. An exception to this is among Dutch Jews, where Ashkenazi for centuries used naming conventions otherwise attributed exclusively to Sephardim, such as Chuts. Chuts is the name given to Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands in the 1850s-1860s.
• Ashkenazi tefillins are wound toward the body, not away from it. Ashkenazim put on the tefillin while standing up. Other Jews generally do so while sitting down. A tefillin(s) is/are sets of small black leather boxes with leather straps having scrolls of parchment written with verses of the Torah inside.
• The prayer shawl (tallit/tallis) is worn by all Ashkenazi men AFTER marriage. Except for Western European Ashkenazi men who wear it from the bar mitzvah. In Sephardi or Mizrahi Judaism, the prayer shawl is commonly worn from early childhood.

The term Ashkenazi also refers to the Nusach Ashkenaz, the liturgical tradition used by Ashkenazi Jews in their siddur (prayer book). A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition’s choice of prayers, the text of prayers & melodies used in the singing of prayers. 2 other major forms of nusach among Ashkenazi Jews are Nusach Sefard (not to be confused with the Sephardic ritual), which is the general Polish Hasidic nusach, and Nusach Ari, used by those in Chabad.

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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIX

What pre-1985 science fiction adventures have you started this summer? Any great reads? Disappointing ones? Intriguing discoveries? Here’s the April installment of this column.

• A selection of read volumes from my shelves

In a conversation on Blueksy, someone asked for my history of science fiction recommendations (including a few general surveys). I scoured my shelves and came up with an all-too-large pile (with some notable volumes I wanted to include but could not find) of favorite histories of science fiction. See photo below. I tried to include monographs that were not studies of single authors.

As I am a historian by training and trade who holds on to some of my disciplinary ticks and hangups, I also included works by trained academics with two major exceptions 1) Mike Ashley’s multi-volume study of science fiction magazines (but no other recent works exist and they’re really good for the nuts and bolts of genre magazines) and 2) Alec Nevala-Lee’s approachable and well-researched group biography  Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (2018). Both should be read.

• A photo of a few of my history of science fiction recommendations

I deliberately avoided works by science fiction authors like Damon Knight, Brian W. Aldiss, and Frederik Pohl. They’re great sources and I own and have read many of them but…. they are not histories by trained scholars. I do not mean for this to come off as elitist. Rather, my personal remit for my list—I needed to winnow down the hundreds and hundreds I own–was deliberately narrow! I read and use sources widely. Remember, these are my favorites — they might not be the best but they got me thinking and reading and writing. And that’s what we all should be doing, reading what makes us happy.

Before we get to the the curated birthdays and brief thoughts on the science fiction volumes above, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read! You’re also welcome to list your favorite histories of the genre.

The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)

1. Samuel R. Delany and Howard V. Chaykin’s Empire (1978). I love the art! The story? One of Delany’s weakest outings. It’s a shame.
2. Robert Holdstock’s Eye Among the Blind (1976). His anthropologically inclined first novel contains “kerns of his later genius” according to my 2014. Most details have faded. That can’t be said to his far superior Where Time Winds Blow (1981). If you only know Holdstock for Mythago Wood (1984), definitely check out his earlier more overt science fictional works. That said, I really need to read Mythago Wood!
3. Kate Wilhelm’s Abyss (1971) is a underrated outing (two novellas) by a master near the top of her game. I particularly enjoyed “The Plastic Abyss” (1971): As the human drama (the entrenched patterns and fritctions of society’s expected social roles) swirls at the forefront, the SF premise generates the unease—in this case an attempt to secure funding for an experimental absorptive material onto which life-like images can be projected. 
4. Philip K. Dick’s Our Friends From Frolix 8 (1970). One of many PKD novels that have clumped together into a terrifying indistinguishable distillation of his unease and what makes him great. This is too say, I read a lot of PKD early in my SF reading career and can’t remember which details relate to which books!

What am I writing about?

The merciful appearance of summer break early this month — and a summer with little planned travel — has allowed me to get back into the flow of writing reviews and working on larger projects. Since the April installment of this series, I’ve read reviewed and written about the following: Exploration Log 14: Anti-Racism in Chandler Davis’ “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950), two posts on Clifford D. Simak: “Madness from Mars” (1939) and “Hermit of Mars” (1939) and his collection The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960), Polly Toynbee’s Leftovers (1966) and Lewis Gibbs’ Late Final (1951), Richard Wilson’s “Strike” (1953), and Knut Faldbakken’s Sweetwater (1976, trans. Joan Tate, 1994), which appeared originally in the first issue of Rachel S. Cordasco’s magazine Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine.

The summer has allowed me to return to my article (and accompanying historical research) on Edward A. Johnson’s Light Ahead for the Negro (1904). First major summer step? I finished Richard A. Paschal’s Jim Crow in North Carolina: The Legislative Program from 1865-1920 (2021) to integrate into my article! I will spend as much as the afternoon as possible at my favorite coffee shop trying to eek out a few more pages or to reacquaint myself with my 200+ electronic newspaper clippings I’ve collected.

I’m also working on my review of SF in translation for the second issue of Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine. I’ll keep the author and book secret until it appears in the first few weeks of August. As for non fiction for the site, I’m working on a few early Clifford D. Simak fanzine articles for my Exploration Log series.

What am I reading?

This is a rare moment for reasons connected to my before-mentioned article that I do not have a science fiction work already lined up to read. It’s a radically attempt to FINISH writing projects that have acted as anchors to other writing and reading. That said, no worries blog friends — I have plenty of half-finished reviews waiting in the wings. Stay tuned.

• Photo of Steve Batterson’s The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom (2023) on my history shelf with other books

On the non-fiction front: I have been eying Steve Batterson’s The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom (2023) after writing about Chandler Davis’ amazing fanzine article “Stereotypes Are Dangerous” (1950) for my Exploration Log series.

A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]

June 10th: Artist Don Maitz (1953-).

June 11th: Josephine Saxton (1935-2023). I recommend The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith (1969). She was a unique and underrated voice of the New Wave. I also covered her first three published short stories.

June 12th: Frank K. Kelly (1914-2010). I wrote about an example of his dark 30s pulp here: “Famine on Mars” (1934).

June 12th: Henry Slesar (1927-2002).

June 13th: Artist Ralph McQuarrie (1929-2012). Best known for his Star Wars art. He also created SF covers.

• James Gurney’s cover for William Greenleaf’s The Tartarus Incident (1983)

June 14th: Artist James Gurney (1958-). Best known for Dinotopia (1992) (and the sequels). Another very influential book in my childhood. He also created a SF covers.

June 14th: Stephen Tall (1908-1981).

June 14th: Ruthven Todd (1914-1978). I recently acquired his marginally SF work The Lost Traveller (1943). I’ll feature it in a purchase post eventually.

June 14th: Laurence Yep (1948-). A complete unknown to me. I acquired one of his novels recently: Seademons (1977) .

June 14th: Artist Peter Goodfellow (1950-2022). One of my favorite British SF artists.

• Mitchell Hooks’ cover for the 1962 1st edition

June 15th: J. F. Bone (1916-2006). Best known for his novel The Lani People (1962). One of many novels with humanoid cat women. Blargh.

June 15th: Artist Neal Adams (1941-2022). Best known for his Tarzan covers.

June 15th: Brian Jacques (1939-2011). I’ve mentioned my love his Jacques’ Redwall sequence in previous year installments of the birthday list. If there’s a single author responsible for my adoration for reading and maps, it’s him.

June 17th: Wallace Wood (1927-1981).

June 17th: John Hersey (1914-1993). Best known for his non-fiction work Hiroshima (1946), Hersey also wrote three SFF volumes. I read and enjoyed his overpopulation themed novel My Petition for More Space (1974). I acquired his satire of the National Defense Education Act (1968) novel The Child Buyer (1960).

June 17th: Garen Drussaï (1916-2009). She wrote five science fiction stories in the mid-50s, including her “consumer hell” story “Woman’s Work” (1956) that I must finally get around to reading.

June 17th: Dean Ing (1931-2020).

• The Brothers Quay cover for the 1st edition of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly (1977)

June 17th: Tim and Steve Quay (1947-) (The Brothers Quay). Before their brilliant short films, they created a handful of covers early in their career! I found their 1st edition cover of PKD’s A Scanner Darkly (1977) the best.

June 18th: Artist Jody A. Lee (1958-).

June 18th: Roger Ebert (1942-2013). Ebert, a famous film-reviewer, also published two science fiction short stories in 1972.

June 19th: Mark Adlard (1932-). I reviewed the first volume–Interface (1971)–in his Tcity trilogy back in 2015.

June 19th: Brian Ball (1932-2020). A slick pulp-SF author, if that is your thing. I reviewed Singularity Station (1973) in 2013.

• Peter Goodfellow’s cover for the 1977 UK edition of Grimus (1975)

June 19th: Salman Rushdie (1947-). I have my eyes on his first SF novel Grimus (1975) (above).

June 20th: Pamela Zoline (1941-). I love the rightly celebrated “The Heat Death of the Universe” (1967) and wish she wrote more than the handful of short stories.

June 21st: Cleve Cartmill (1908-1964). Best known for the controversy over “Deadline” (1944) “which described an atomic bomb a year before one was ever dropped, which the government attempted to suppress.” Should I read it? I imagine it is historically important but a poor story. Did he write anything else worth reading?

June 21st: David J. Skal (1952-2024). I’ve only read Skal’s short story “Chains” (1971).

June 22nd: Lima de Freitas (1927-1998). One of my top 5 science fiction artists — I love his line work. For a few examples I gathered, see this thread on Bluesky. I also posted about his work on my site: The Futuristic Cities of Lima de Freitas.

June 22nd: Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006). I’ve reviewed Clay’s Ark (1984),  Dawn (1987) and Mind of My Mind (1977). Clay’s Ark (1984) is really really good. Covered it last year.

June 23rd: Michael Shaara (1928-1988). His collection Soldier Boy (1982) judges me from the shelf. I’ve been meaning to read it since 2015!

• Paul Orban’s interior art for A. J. Deutsch’s “A Subway Named Mobius” (1950) in Astounding Science Fiction, ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. (December 1950)

June 23rd: Artist Paul Orban (1896-1974). I enjoy his style of interior art — the variety of lines and shading.

June 23rd: Artist Alan Craddock (1956-). I do not enjoy his style of cover art!

• Alan Craddock’s cover art for the 1985 Orbit edition of David Gerrold’s A Day for Damnation (1984)

For book reviews consult the INDEX

For cover art posts consult the INDEX

For TV and film reviews consult the INDEX

Early Career of Lana Turner: Portraits from the 1930s

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What To Watch On YouTube Right Now – Part 138

Welcome back my readers, YouTube viewers and all others who followed this series of articles focused on YouTube videos worth watching.

Have you been searching for something fun or interesting to watch on YouTube? Do you feel bored right now and you crave for something to see on the world’s most popular online video destination?

I recommend you check out the following videos I found.

#1 How To Get The Strongest And Most Optimized Spaceship Crew In Starfield – This year, Bethesda launched several important updates to make their 2023 science fiction role-playing game Starfield better and they also offered new DLC for those who crave for new content. One of the more defining aspects of the game is space travel and this includes setting up your own crew for your spaceship and there is impact on its functions and capabilities. If you want to learn how to get the stronger and most optimized crew for your ship, I encourage you watch the video below.

https://youtu.be/vy8iOx7eqVU?si=gn7W1mZxTOQ4SSrd

#2 Mari Iijima And The Defining Song of Macross: Do You Remember Love? – I really love watching the 1984 anime feature film Macross: Do You Remember Love? Apart from the great animation, the spectacle, the memorable characters and the solid storytelling, the movie also has a great soundtrack made to delight the long-time Macross fans. Still, the movie has its very own song performed by none other than Mari Iijima (Minmay) and it is a classic among Macross fans. In the videos below, you will see Mari Iijima perform the song live in a 1980s TV broadcast and the song playing with selected footage of Macross: Do You Remember Love? Enjoy these!

https://youtu.be/OfuW_Wbt73c?si=Q1DE8eJxo4Zk90pc

https://youtu.be/uJBMYV9e1Nc?si=veDGYU4r7s0flQ_H

#3 The Tuna City In Japan Is Changing With Tourism In Mind – If you plan to visit Japan at all, you might want to discover Miura City located in Kanagawa Prefecture. Miura City is famous for its fresh tuna and in recent times there has been a series of changes as several room-only hotels and new trends have sprouted as the locality is finding new ways to turn visitors into overnight guests. This is a place I would like to visit someday if ever I get the opportunity to return to Japan. Watch and learn from the Nippon TV video below.

https://youtu.be/fUPP30fYH78?si=MrC6Dml3IRVe7fcV

#4 Women’s Rights Activist Marries Islamist And Things Went Wrong – Did you notice that there is a gradual rising number of feminists and women’s rights activists who not embrace Islam (wicked and ugly) but also marry Islamists believing that things will be alright and they can just continue their activism. Of course, many of them activists and feminists do not fully understand Islam nor the full content of the Quran. As such, when things go very wrong, they are get into deep trouble. Watch and learn from the video below.

https://youtu.be/bx3YvoyP6cw?si=omxqhyR8CQfpfhYK

#5 Islamists Violate Hindu Women In India And Get Arrested – Let’s be very clear here. Islamists are oriented to conquer others even though they may not be numerous within a locality. Believe it or not, a group of such people who wielded power inside a business violated the Hindu women (plus at least one male employee) with regards to cultural norms and doing things that go against their faith. Even forced religious conversion happened. Watch and learn from the video below.

https://youtu.be/9xjFS-3Vuws?si=xuDIivIonrp9tQux

#6 Meatballs Reaction And Retrospective – When it comes to cinematic comedy, Bill Murray is iconic and his early work in 1979’s Meatballs already involved the late Harold Ramis and the late director Ivan Reitman. That said, there is something about Meatballs – produced for less than $2 million – that helped it achieve tremendous commercial success with ticket sales of $70 million. Remember, three of the creative minds behind the classic Ghostbusters are involved in this old movie and you will see how You, Me and The Movies react to it in the video below. Be aware that as of this writing, there are not too many movie reaction videos about Meatballs on YouTube. Also posted below is an in-depth retrospective about Meatballs by GoodBadFlicks.

https://youtu.be/nhR9xUCvpAI?si=Zh6gjAX0SdIrtSfT

https://youtu.be/D0BS-K3K_vE?si=HtyR_VThLUKv0Wj6

#7 Ashleigh Burton Reacts To The Thin Man – Have you ever heard of The Thin Man? It’s not a UFO reference. It’s the 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery movie that was eventually named to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress having been deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” in 1997. Apart from its reputation in American film history, The Thin Man also resulted in five sequels. If you want to discover the 1934 movie but you don’t have the time nor resources to watch the movie, watch Ashleigh Burton’s reaction video and see how it impacts her.

https://youtu.be/IJRQXuw–20?si=mSYY7_Eb4EK6reBY

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Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie

#HackerNews #Talkie #1930s #Vintage #Language #Model #AI #Technology #NLP

My Greatest Generation grandad had one rule to never run out of things to say in conversation

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/conversation-tips-from-the-greatest-generation-ex1

Louis Armstrong's first sound film appearance was in a now lost 1930 movie - here's what's known about it.

"His First Big Talkie" - The Story of Louis Armstrong's Lost First Film "Ex-Flame"

https://virtualexhibits.louisarmstronghouse.org/2025/09/10/his-first-big-talkie-the-story-of-louis-armstrongs-lost-first-film-ex-flame/

#LouisArmstrong #Talkie #1930s #FilmHistory

Reviving a Modular Cargo Bike Design from the 1930s

https://www.core77.com/posts/136773/Reviving-a-Modular-Cargo-Bike-Design-from-the-1930s

#HackerNews #Reviving #Cargo #Bikes #Modular #Design #1930s #Sustainable #Transport #Retro #Innovation

Resolut specimen (typeface by Hans Brünnel), Nebiolo, 1939.

See the complete specimen in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0044&utm_source=Mastodon

More on Resolut from @FontsInUse: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32714/resolut

#Typefaces #Fonts #TypeSpecimens #Nebiolo #1930s #TholenaarCollection

Rural Workers

Farmers, Cowhands, Sharecroppers, Shepherds and other Hired Hands photographed by Arthur Rothstein between 1935 and 1940

#arthurrothstein #photographer #photography #ruralworkers #rurallife #farmers #farmworkers #hiredhands #cowhands #shepherds #sharecroppers #farmlife #workers #ruralamerica #vintagephotography #vintagephotos #1930s #worktheland

Rural Workers

Farmers, Cowhands, Sharecroppers, Shepherds and other Hired Hands photographed by Arthur Rothstein between 1935 and 1940

#arthurrothstein #photographer #photography #ruralworkers #rurallife #farmers #farmworkers #hiredhands #cowhands #shepherds #sharecroppers #farmlife #workers #ruralamerica #vintagephotography #vintagephotos #1930s #worktheland

Rural Workers

Farmers, Cowhands, Sharecroppers, Shepherds and other Hired Hands photographed by Arthur Rothstein between 1935 and 1940

#arthurrothstein #photographer #photography #ruralworkers #rurallife #farmers #farmworkers #hiredhands #cowhands #shepherds #sharecroppers #farmlife #workers #ruralamerica #vintagephotography #vintagephotos #1930s #worktheland

Margaret De Patta, Untitled, 1939, photogram, 19.7 × 24.1 cm ★ USA ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/photographs-n09558/lot.127.html #MargaretDePatta #modernart #modernphotography #abstractart #abstractphotography #photogram #forms #blackandwhitephotography #studentofLászlóMoholyNagy #peoplea #suicideartists #1930s

Margaret De Patta, Untitled, 1939, photogram, 19.7 × 24.1 cm ★ USA ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/photographs-n09558/lot.127.html #MargaretDePatta #modernart #modernphotography #abstractart #abstractphotography #photogram #forms #blackandwhitephotography #studentofLászlóMoholyNagy #peoplea #suicideartists #1930s

Margaret De Patta, Untitled, 1939, photogram, 19.7 × 24.1 cm ★ USA ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/photographs-n09558/lot.127.html #MargaretDePatta #modernart #modernphotography #abstractart #abstractphotography #photogram #forms #blackandwhitephotography #studentofLászlóMoholyNagy #peoplea #suicideartists #1930s

Margaret De Patta, Untitled, 1939, photogram, 19.7 × 24.1 cm ★ USA ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/photographs-n09558/lot.127.html #MargaretDePatta #modernart #modernphotography #abstractart #abstractphotography #photogram #forms #blackandwhitephotography #studentofLászlóMoholyNagy #peoplea #suicideartists #1930s

Margaret De Patta, Untitled, 1939, photogram, 19.7 × 24.1 cm ★ USA ★ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/photographs-n09558/lot.127.html #MargaretDePatta #modernart #modernphotography #abstractart #abstractphotography #photogram #forms #blackandwhitephotography #studentofLászlóMoholyNagy #peoplea #suicideartists #1930s

#OnThisDate, November 16, The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz, 1936) is the #FilmDuJour. #USA #MichaelCurtiz #BorisKarloff #crime #drama #SciFi #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film #1930s ★★★½