The sky is looking a little foreboding right now.

In the United States during the 19th Century, it was quite popular to use lots of big, fanciful, made-up Jabberwocky kind of words.  Fun frou-frou words like sockdolager, hornswoggle, & snollygoster.  Skedaddle & shindig too.  I think this kind of language might have inspired the term “10 Dollar Word” but that’s just a guess.
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I found this 1946 classroom film while cleaning out my hardrives. It’s kind of long, but very interesting (especially the re-enactments with look-a-like faux-Nazis. The on-screen narrator’s suit has incredible lapels too.

When I was little I dreamt of a future filled with monorails, cities on Mars, personal jetpacks and flying cars that fold up into a briefcase for storage. Seems like my childish vision of a neat-o future was mostly based on transportation, and access to faraway places… and so far, none of this stuff Continue Reading

In a conversation with another agency we work with, it came up that EMRL “officially” started seven years ago.  I hadn’t really though of it before, but wow.  SEVEN.  I still remember boozing it up at our grand opening party like it was yesterday!  Kind of cool we’re still here
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10th Street has been under construction for like, ever.  The Citizen Hotel took like 2+ years (maybe more?) to finish, and after that the city decides to rip apart our alley for new sewers.  Probably so the guests in the hotel have somewhere to poop.  Now, the orange-vested people are back, ripping out the curb Continue Reading