Archive for the ‘Ephemera’ Category
“You mean to tell me one can’t knit and learn about 18th Century Albanian Poetry at the same time?”
A little prop work (the book jacket for the “American to English Dictionary”) for a British independent short called “Oxford Dons“. Highly entertaining.
Image links to part one (of two) on YouTube.
Postcard from Cuba
A followup to the Pan-American Chocolate Company entry. In going through more papers, came across a pre-revolution postcard for Havana’s famous El Carmelo restaurant.
The Elena Ruz sandwich is said to be named after a socialite patron of El Carmelo. But even more oddly, (more…)
“As far as I was concerned, he was always a slight embarrassment.”
The story about the branch of the family that lived in Havana involves:
an illegal numbers racket
jail time
Ted Williams
a chocolate factory
a tennis champion
a record store
murder
revolution
loss
a night at the Tropicana
and a woman named Fan
