I associated Dorothy Kilgallen with "What's Your Line?" so strongly that I have trouble remembering that she had a career outside the show. And had quite the flair for purple prose, evidently.
"In Augusta the beribboned ghosts of the sleepy old South brush gently and constantly against the sleeves of men working around the clock to create the greatest explosion the world has ever known."
Her prose drips from the ribbon of her mechanical translating beast with alacrity that bespeaks of a frenzied ennui. Or something.
Also, that's a whole lot of neck she had. Of course, that's probably just sour grapes, since I don't have a neck.
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Various and sundry websites
- 1000 Awesome Things
Not retro, just awesome smile fodder. - Animal Rescue Site
Click a link, feed a dog. For real. - Ask Rea Maor
Scarily intelligent guy from Israel who likes my goofy website. - Bedazzled!
Pree. Mo. retro site. One of the best around. - Beyond the Roots of Lounge
"Plumbing the depths of shallow" most excellently. - Birmingham Rewound
Alabama's Magic City through the years. Great stuff. - Bowling Trophy
Trash or treasure? I say, "Both." - Classic Television Showbiz
Full-length episodes of old TV shows. Who needs cable? - Cute Overload! :)
If you can look at this site and not go "Awwww," you're inhuman. - Damn Interesting
The title says it all. - Dirty Jobs: Mike Rowe Answers
Mike Rowe for president! - Discontented Cookies
Meet my old blog, same as my new blog. Retro stuff, in other words. - Ephemera
Exploring the world of old paper. Or as I call it, every day of my life. Good stuff. - Everybody! Everybody!
Funniest site on the Internet. - Eye of the Goof
Dude's name is Mr. Bali Hai. What more do you need to know? - Found in Mom's Basement
A spiffy collection of vintage advertising, definitely worth bookmarking. - Future Crap
New blog by a loyal reader with a like appreciation for retro crap. Excellent stuff. - Get Go Retro
If I were a woman, I'd buy everything here. Curse you, Y Chromosome! - I Can Has Cheezburger
I'm hopelessly addicted to lol cats, or meme cats, or whatever you call 'em - I Has A Hotdog!
Canine counterpart to I Can Has Cheezburger - I'm Learning To Share
Gotta love a site that lists "Reasons to be cheerful." - Jenn Doucette
Happening author who likes my site. But don't hold that against her. - Lileks: The Institute of Official Cheer
He's living my life a few years of me. And better. - Martin Klasch
More superbly cool retro from someplace far beyond the Do What Now? manse. - Modern Mechanix
"Yesterday's tomorrow, today," in the form of some ultra-cool looks back at old magazines. Two steam-powered thumbs up. - Neato Coolville
Neato Coolville is a small place located at the junction of Imagination Street and Nostalgia Road. - Paleo-Future
A look into the future that never was. But should have been. - PCL LinkDump
PCL Linkdump. A whole bunch of great pop culture weirdness. - Plan59 :: 1950s Graphic Design :: Classic Car Art
I want to live then. - Pleasant Family Shopping
Retro grocery stores. You can get happily lost for hours here. - retrospace
Gilligan's uber-cool retro blog that you must--you MUST--read daily. - Shorpy.com
The 100-Year photo blog. Stupendous. - Station Bay
Excellent retro sign site - The Dino Lounge: Coolness Is Timeless
The Rat Pack lives, baby. - the good old days
This blogger is brave enough to try some of the recipes I post. - The Swank Pad
Lounge, kitsch and tiki from a secret lair in Tennessee - Trading Card T-shirts
More dangerously alluring t-shirts - Ultra Swank
Swankiness from Sweden. Sweden, people! - Who Really Cares, Anyway?
Sounds cynical, but it's not. Pretty cool retro (and other) stuff from a self-described "doughy, middle-aged guy." - Yard Sale Bloodbath
I want to hang with these people. Excellent yard sale blogging.
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Awesome writing!
Posted by: Paul Edelstein | August 07, 2010 at 08:36 AM
Perhaps you could borrow some of her neck? She seems to have a surplus.
I like this part: "It is a town named for a princess, but early in 1951, in a swift, almost transvestite, metamorphosis, it became a virile, booming young industrial giant."
"Transvestite metamorphosis"! How often do you see THAT kind of description? Who would have thought to put those two words together? Genius, I tell you, GENIUS!
Posted by: Lois | September 11, 2008 at 11:27 AM
She looks like Beth Grant. "Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!"
Posted by: june | November 20, 2007 at 03:37 PM
She looks like my (rest her soul) granny. But then again, some say all Irish look alike.
Posted by: Crowchick | November 20, 2007 at 02:27 AM