The Year's Best Humor Writing - 2011

If you’re not doing anything for the next few months, I put together an almost prohibitively long list of my favorite pieces of humor writing of 2011 for Splitsider. Check it out.

beccaoneal: Not even going to lie, I’m excited about this. Enhance. ENHANCE! Rebecca O’Neal!!! And now to immediately write some more stuff to prevent my inevitable irrelevance.  WHOOP! WHOOP!

beccaoneal:

Not even going to lie, I’m excited about this.

Enhance.

ENHANCE!

Rebecca O’Neal!!!

And now to immediately write some more stuff to prevent my inevitable irrelevance. 

WHOOP! WHOOP!

The last of the Reet, Petit, and Gone gifs.

More old timey gifs from Reet, Petite, and Gone. Her moves are like… shockingly modern, right?

I was watching a movie from the 1940s called Reet, Petite, and Gone and this woman and her facial expressions cracked me up, so I had to make a gif wall.

There are a couple of Mad Men-alikes coming to television this season and I’m intrigued by each. My great aunt Jacqueline was a Playboy bunny in the Chicago club in the late 1960s, so I’ll try to get her take on the accuracy of NBC’s new show. She seemed amused by Naturi Naughton’s portrayal as Toni on the last season of Mad Men - because you don’t often see vintage images of bunnies of color.

The other show is Pan Am. The promo above seems exaggerated, but I found this ad for Pan Am stewardesses in a 1960s issue of Ebony Magazine:

ENHANCE:

Of note:

Must be single

The weight requirements

Mention of the romantic lifestyle

Hilarious in an old-timey-sexism way.

These airlines were basically bunny clubs in the sky. Soooo, I say all that to say this: I’ll probably DVR both of these shows and give them a chance.

Sometimes I wish I were still doing promo, because I would turn this into a flyer like… yesterday.  And while I was doing events, I never got around to doing anything formal, which I think would have been nice.

This picture is for an upcoming series I’m putting together on b.vikki vintage’s blogspot about black dandies.

The language in this flyer make seem too modern, but it’s actually an ad for a style of music and dance popularized in turn of the century Harlem called Cake Walking.

RegularOlTy: The Gentlemen of Bakongo

The Gentlemen of Bakongo is a book put together by Italian art historian and freelance photgrapher, Daniele Tamagni. I myself have been slacking on picking up the book but by the time this post goes live I’ll have mines on the way. The book features what Fader.com called “the sartorially…

Not vintage, but definitely an aesthetic I can get behind.

myparentswereawesome: Dexter and Marie Christine Submitted by Ryan

myparentswereawesome:

Dexter and Marie Christine

Submitted by Ryan

1961 Ebony magazine photograph of a man dressed like a 2009 hipster who dresses like an 1890s dandy; New York Times Style Section trend piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/fashion/12CODES.html?_r=2&em

1961 Ebony magazine photograph of a man dressed like a 2009 hipster who dresses like an 1890s dandy; New York Times Style Section trend piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/fashion/12CODES.html?_r=2&em

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