It's Christmas! The orbits of 1959 and 2011 intersect this month, so let's just break the rules and skip around the issue, hitting as many Christmas pages as possible. Will be posting randomly and often until Christmas. First up - Vogue itself.
It doesn't look any better in real life. An eye lurking behind a dried-up bit of Christmas tree. Why not a half-eaten cookie as well?
Verbiage: Vigilant. Exacting. With the sure touch of authority, Vogue reports the important fashion news in its 20 issues a year . . .
Within each Vogue -- complete reports of fashion in all its phases . . . clothes, accessories and personal beauty . . . decor, entertainment and travel . . .news in names, scenes and events . . . provocative contributions of acclaimed authors. . .
I wonder if anyone has ever described herself as "vigilant and exacting." Does sound like the typical Vogue editor, though.
"Excitement" is missing.
Twenty issues a year? Six-fifty sounds like a deal, but in today's dollars that would be: $50.58. You can get 36 issues for $40.00 now - either way you look at it (years or issues), it's a steal. Either that, or Vogue was a very expensive magazine in 1959. On purpose.
The post card is still attached! The address: Vogue, Greenwich, Connecticut. All spelled out - no ZIP. No possibility to pay by credit card. How did it ever work?
Let's go to the movies!
* Aliens attack. Led by Japan, the Earth fights back.
* Like the other space movies this year (so far), no attempt whatsoever of nuanced, or even recognizably human types. But I soon began to notice that scene after scene was a living Analog cover. I couldn't wait for what came next -- an Oscar-Meyer weiner space vehicle! Attack of the Teletubbies! And the music was great. (By the ridiculously prolific Akira Ifukube, best known for Godzilla. Can't resist: Go here and read the list of movies and their English translations.
* A lot of fun. Here's the American trailer, also very choice itself.
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