WHERE?....IF ANYWHERE......MAY ONE PURCHASE BOOZE IN THIS ARTSY BOTTLE!!

THE 'DEVICES' THAT, IN "BRINGING US CLOSER TOGETHER", BROUGHT US "FURTHER APART".....

In 1960, kids wanted 'walkie-talkies', so that they might converse, wirelessly, with others who were nearby.....and, even then, were rewarded by the prestige ascribed to....earlier....only soldiers in combat zones.....Alas, 'callers' could only call other huge 'mobile devices' that were on 'their wavelengths'.....and, just yards away....Phones, like 'Wally's' , such as The SCR-536 Handie-Talkie, were the Modern Walkie-Talkie’s Finicky Ancestors before the ubiquitous acquisition of 'cell phones' . (Despite the radio’s short-lived battery, limited range, and 3-foot antenna, more than 130,000 of them were used in World War II.) This old, heavy, bulky, cumbersome will have been constantly supplanted with smaller, lighter, longer-range, cheaper 'appliances', in the not-so-distant-Future.....by, I'm sure, tiny...very tiny.....implanted mobile communication Devices......that may, in the coming decade or two, be 'required by Law'.....that every human being might be tracked and easily located in the larger, planned Syllogistically Orwellian Schemata....

Average, middle-class American "1960's" Couple......bored, staring at the wall where their planned 21" Motorola 'Color' cathode ray television 'set' will, inevitably, be positioned.....to displace their ennui with the massive waves of idiocy that will soon divert their predictable, prescribed, passive attention.....and 'take up' ...with mobile phone activity......over half of the average person's waking time....

Now.....that's 'better'.......reducing intelligent interaction within a Family.....also, reducing Conflict by diverting attention to 'what's on TV' rather than real, interpersonal, transactional relationships.....

GRANDMOTHER'S OLD IRON, PEDAL-OPERATED SINGER WITH A FOLDING OAK TOP...

Mother lugged this ancient sewing machine home after Grandmother died......Then, decades later, I lugged it to Atlanta, thinking that I would utilize it.......Eventually, I gave the machine away, after purchasing a used portable Project Runway Singer Machine, with a 'button-hole attachment',  from PR's first season.......which I have also not utilized.....It must have been 'just' the memory associations that the old 'Singer' excavated.....I still have clothing, from my childhood, that was produced on this 'machine'......as well as some needles and old thread-wound bobbins and several pairs of Grantmother's old sizzors.........Don't tempt me with a modern, electric device.....I think that I am a 'hand-sewing' kind of guy........

The 'Mystery Man', Brian Jourbet came up in a conversation: "what happened to....?"......He was once the 'most wanted' sexy skater....

Here..... Brian, being 'admired' by two of his top competitors, Stéphane Lambiel and Johnny Weir.....