IF: villain
If we didn’t have villains, how would we know which ones are the good guys?
Archive of entries posted by joshpincusiscrying
IF: old
Jerry Lewis, the son of a popular vaudeville entertainer, is one of the last living connections to the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 1945, he was performing at a club in New York City. He met a young singer named Dean Martin who was also scheduled on the bill. The pair decided to team up …
from my sketchbook: edwin geist
Edwin Geist taught and composed music and served as occasional conductor in his native Berlin in the early 1930s. However, when Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels founded the Reichsmusikkammer (The Reich Chamber of Music), Edwin’s music was declared “degenerate,” along with compositions by Debussy, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, even Artie Shaw and Bennie Goodman. Banned from …
IF: work
First the alarm didn’t go off, then the train was canceled, now a goddamn bear trap! At this rate, Bob was never gonna make it to work.
IF: people
People. All kinds of people. But they’re all just people. Click here for a larger version.
IF: heart
Anne Frank received a journal as a present for her thirteenth birthday. Nearly a month later, she was hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex with her family. She remained in seclusion for a little over two years until someone, who still remains officially unidentified, exposed the family to Nazi officials. Three days after …
IF: pointy
Follow! But! Follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it… and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair! So! Brave knights! If you do doubt your courage or …
IF: grow
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie In 1889, self-made millionaire Andrew Carnegie wrote an article called “The Gospel of Wealth,” in which he described the responsibility of the country’s wealthy upper class to share and distribute their surplus funds to …
IF: nature
If you are around my age, you remember the catch phrase: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” That was the punchline to a ubiquitous commercial for Chiffon Margarine that ran in the late 70s and into the early 80s. The announcer (character actor Mason Adams) informs a cheerful Mother Nature that the butter she …
IF: treasure
“Oh, isn’t he a treasure?” “Yeah. Let’s bury him.”