Sunday Links

Image: Everest Collection

Photos of  Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz at Home in the 1940s (image above) “Lucy would fall in love with the chickens and wouldn’t kill them. She had the oldest chickens in the Valley.” Via Memo of The Air

“Hardened men wore fedoras and forever smoked cigarettes. Women played the femme fatale role brilliantly. Love was the surest way to death.” - 60 Free Noir Films

Mr. Nag makes a decent poached egg. Mine, on the other hand, “ assume the form of a lopsided Frisbee wearing a Victorian nightgown.”  How to Make a Perfect Poached Egg

Eleanor Roosevelt Gun Permit 1957

Noun Sense Is a daily word association game where you guess the most common noun that follows the adjective. There goes my weekend. Via Web Curios

Death By Catsup

Buy your own Eames House This kit-of-parts product supports the Eameses' overall vision of universal architecture for everyone. Via Things Magazine

A roundup of Weird Lady Lit

In Robert Heinlein’s 1959 short story “All You Zombies“ all the major characters turn out to be the same person, who takes on different roles through time travel and sex reassignment.

Inquiring minds want to know: Worldwide toilet paper consumption  

11 Million Coloured Buildings: Bert Spaan has mapped all 11,333,878 buildings in the Netherlands, colouring buildings by their year of construction.

A writer grapples with the troubled advertisement of her family’s steakhouse. 

I guarantee that some of these kids were traumatized: Olaf the robot from the movie Frozen dies in front of an audience at Disneyland Paris

“Any of these could be a gold mine” This teenager buys abandoned storage lockers.

Proof that ferrets don't have bones.

In 1535, a senior courtier to King Henry VIII built a nice country house outside London, and nearly 500 years later, it’s still there. See Hackney’s oldest building.

The Lonely Funeral project was started by Dutch poet Frank Starikin in 2002. As of 2018, over 300 “lonely funerals” had been attended by poets who wrote a custom poem about their life and read it at their funeral, offering dignity to perfect strangers. Via swissmiss 

Gary Oldman as Churchill dancing like James Brown. Link

Architypes: Lots of photos of French storefronts. I like this sort of thing. Via Web Curios

How To Gain Your Guests’ Approval (You’re welcome)

In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. He still works for Apple. NYT gift link