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wild stat: For example, in 1990 there were just half a million cars in China. By 2024 there were 435mn, many of them electric. from FT on Dan Wang’s new book.| Helytimes
(source) I lived two and a half years in New York City but I didn’t know much about Greenpoint. A brief visit for a special occasion brought me to this corner of Brooklyn. Stayed at Franklin …| Helytimes
I like sitting in the crowd. Like when I go to a sporting event, I want to get good seats, but the closer you sit, the quieter it gets and the less fun it gets. It’s the most fucked-up thing. Unless it’s like an NBA game where before they had a DJ play the whole […]| Helytimes
from Archibald MacLeish’s tribute poem after he died: Veteran out of the wars before he was twenty: Famous at twenty-five: thirty a master – Whittled a style for his time from a walnut stick In a carpenter’s loft in a street of that April city. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. Thus it’s […]| Helytimes
Zane makes The New York Times. I don’t care for the word “snub.” from Etymology Online: If you’re a Television Academy member, please consider voting for COMMON SIDE EFFECTS in the category Outstan…| Helytimes
From Jeffrey Meyers, Hemingway: A Biography: Like most people who were drawn by Hemingway’s magnetic personality and valued him more as a companion than as a writer, Lanham found it amusing and exciting to be with him and to be known to have been with him. (The general is remembered today not for his military […]| Helytimes
At Trois Mec here in LA. 1789 boundaries, you can see that Savoy is still part of Italy here.| Helytimes
following up on Cezanne posting. 1896: 2025: Think this is pretty much the spot. Does seem like he truncated/compressed the view. That’s the art! The site is now the wonderful-seeming hotel A…| Helytimes
A man named Thomas Hudson, who was a good painter, lived there in that house and worked there and on the island the greater part of the year. After one has lived in those latitudes long enough the changes of the seasons become as important there as anywhere else and Thomas Hudson, who loved the […]| Helytimes
Thinking of hosting an event where we eat the lunch Jedediah Smith has at the San Gabriel mission, California in 1826: At 11 O Clock [am] the Father came and invited us to dinner. We accompanied hi…| Helytimes
If you have a little kid in the US you will have some clothes from Carter’s. They sell them at Target and Wal-Mart as well as 1,000 or so Carter’s stores, and they cost $8. Before I had…| Helytimes
If you’re wondering why he’s wearing watchface facing in, submariner’s habit, so you could tell time while working the periscope. As a preteen he castrated hogs, ploughed a field with a mule (Emma)…| Helytimes
Here’s an anecdote. One of Sartre’s closest friends in school was Raymond Aron, a conservative, pro-American political scientist. In those days, the French government had scholarships to various fo…| Helytimes
former Nixon and Reagan aide has just told his Miller Center oral history interviewers a long story about the Nixon administration: YoungSo, what is the moral of that story?AndersonThe moral of the…| Helytimes
It’s time to revisit George Reedy, Twilight of the Presidency. I can’t do better as a summary than this 1970 review by William C. Spragens in The Western Political Quarterly found on JS…| Helytimes
Posts about the California Condition written by helytimes| Helytimes
saw someone on X (formerly “Twitter”) raise the old red flag of The Great Gatsby isn’t that good actually so I took it off the shelf. That’s how it starts. (Struck me that m…| Helytimes
