Noir Nights
Have we been over the fact I'm obsessed with the 20s?
The Jazz era was chalk full of inspiring characters.
Let’s have a little explore-zies, shall we?
Thing To Read
Did you know the person who discovered there was more than one polio strain, during the polio epidemic, was an Australian woman?
Dr. Macnamara also, “developed new methods of treatments and rehabilitation. Her research also played an important role in the introduction of myxomatosis to control rabbit plagues, which minimized environmental damage across Australia.”
Doing a little peek into the polio epidemic, and also the Spanish flu might be comforting if you’re like me, and sticking a finger in the wound always seems to make it feel better.
Thing to Watch
Film got itself up off the ground in the 20s.
Still quite new, it had so much space to be experimental.
Even what we’d say is very trite today, was brand freaking new in motion picture then.
Like even the phrase “motion picture” is absolutely mind blowing when you think about how no one had seen pictures move before then.
Some guys doing some very impressive work leading up to the 20s:
The Brothers Lumiere
and in the actual 20s, Fritz Lang
Thing to Wear
LORD the dresses in the 20s. I could start a thousand and one places.
I’ll give you two starting points.
Poiret
Thing to Listen to
Some of the music that came out of the Jazz Era is still like GEEZ THAT’S RISQUE.
Like pair the actually rather skilled musical skill with lyrics so intentionally flagrantly sexy that even Diplo would be abashed, HELLO.
This is filthy, I love it. Find the Tik Tok creator, she’s great. Singer is Lucille Bogan, who I first learned of on OG episodes of Stuff Mom Never Told You.
Saint of the Week
16 May 1920: Joan of Arc canonized in Catholic church
She saved a fucking war that would have destroyed France, and then they gave her to the English to be killed.
A woman doing as she saw necessary, a running theme in the 20s.
(So. Fuck the French.)
Compulsory Sports Thingamabob
The NFL today is a nasty, ugly thing that I don’t often care to give my attention to. Now that Tommy Brady has left the Pats for the Bucs, I may never watch an NFL game again.
In the 20s, professional football was a baby deer standing on new legs for the first time. John Krasinski made a movie about it. Not half bad.
The Beauty Bomb
Bright Young Things, a group of roving, fucking, drinking babes who destroyed London in the 20s. They also wrote some great literature.
I find them fascinating, and frankly, based on what some friends have said they feel like being after we get to leave our homes, history is set to give us another round of Bright Young Things.
