2013 was definitely the best year of my life, bring it on 2014!
Chanel 1985
Photographer : David Seidner
Model : Betty Lago
Female Mugshots
1. Amy Lee, 1/30/1930. Described as ‘a good looking girl until she fell victim to the foul practice’ of snorting cocaine2. Doris Winifred Poole, 7/31/1924. Stole jewelery and clothing.
3. Edith Florence Ashton, 8/29/1929. Backyard abortionist
4. Ester Eggers, 12/16/1919. Malicious injury to property and wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Attacked the police officer who came to arrest her.
George Platt Lynes: Lew Christiensen, William Dollar, and Daphne Vane performing Orpheus and Eurydice, 1934
- Family breaks up. It leaves marks on three children, two of whom ruin themselves keeping a family together and a third who doesn’t.
- A young woman bill collector undertakes to collect a ruined man’s debts. They prove to be moral as well as financial.
- Story of a man trying to live down his crazy past and encountering it everywhere.
- Father teaches son to gamble on fixed machine; later the son unconsciously loses his girl on it.
- Girl and giraffe.
- Play about a whole lot of old people—terrible things happen to them and they don’t really care.
According to his friend and editor Edmund Wilson, Fitzgerald almost never followed through on these ideas or similar gems in his “brainstorming” note-books. Wilson blames this on the fact that the depth of thought and level of craft in the notebooks were too genuine and rich to be incorporated into the crap Fitzgerald was writing for magazines at that point in his career.
Words are better friends than people. Well, they last longer, anyway.
A soldier of the U.S. Seventh Marines carries a puppy in his pocket after rescuing it during an operation southwest of Da Nang in Vietnam, 1968
