Reading Vintage Vogues -- An Accidental Education: Onward to Labor Day

Summer's Resolution: Post every day until from Independence Day to Labor Day.

How has it been more than a month? It just has. RVV has been tweeting away - until blindsided by Song Pop. If ever there is a category for Music Mentioned in December 1959 Vogue . . . Have been tweeting songs from the albums recommended for Christmas presents. And to be extra Meta, they have their own playlist in Spotify. Have also tried to tweet some fashion - Claire McCardell from the Metropolitan Museum of Art most recently. It's quite a nice little Twitter feed. Following whatever and whoever has been mentioned in this issue - including Jane Fonda and Leonard Bernstein, who is dead.

Taking stock: however stalled this blog seems, things have been going on behind the scenes, as it were. I found samples of three of the perfumes advertised in coming pages. The old Mac has been migrated to the new Mac, although everything was left dumped in a heap on the Desktop, just like a real-life move.

Let's go to the movies!

* While waiting for a summons by the king, a troupe of carneys evade the law and wreak havoc among the bourgeoisie.

* Vogue said this about The Magician: Obviously a morality play with no discernible moral - a two-hundred-year-old witch sells rat poison as an aphrodisiac, murmuring such unhelpful aphorisms as 'If fat pigs squeal too loud they may lose their hams.'" In the end, this cost me $30 as it languished week by week on the shelf, little red Netflix envelope disappearing and reappearing under bills and catalogs.

*It was really good! I've never liked Max von Sydow before this, but then I've never seen him this young. Ingrid Thulin, who was the only really good thing in Wild Strawberries, is again the grounding force.

Tomorrow: Something. Meanwhile, Tweeting via Spotify: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue from the what-to-get-someone-for-Christmas list. (Next on the list is actually Cy Coleman, Why Try to Change Me Now, but that's not on Spotify. First up on Kind of Blue is "So What," a song that I used to beat a lot of people on Song Pop in the last week. . . but I'm done with that now. Really.) Also Tweeting: Claire McCardell swimsuits.