I saw this woman on Madison Avenue while walking with my friend Salty, who, as we were walking away after I took this photo, said she thought the woman was an actress.  This stylin’ senior had a deep smoker’s voice and in my head I can hear her snapping a dry funny insult to a younger relative on a sitcom.  Does anyone know who she is or recognize her?

For more stylish seniors check out the great blog, Advanced Style.

And the UES post on Ann Slater.

Did you or anyone you know ever have the book “Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll“ by Richie Unterberger?  The book catalogs and describes some of the most influential and original, often insane, musicians from the 1950’s – 1990’s who for one reason or another never attained mainstream success or fame, including Nick Drake (before that Volkwagon commercial came out!)

I bought the book in 2000 at Saint Mark’s Bookshop and so did a lot of my friends, mainly because it came with a kick-ass compilation CD of rare songs.  I listened to it so much that when I accidentally stepped on it and broke it I bought a second copy of the book just to get a new CD.

So I was thrilled to find out that Anisette, the lead-singer of the Danish 60’s rock band The Savage Rose, whose song ‘A Girl I Knew’ is on the Unknown Legends compilation CD, will be performing this Friday at Joe’s Pub.  As Unterberger notes in his introduction, The Savage Rose is one of the exceptions in the book, having achieved great commercial success in their homeland, Denmark, but are barely known in the United States.

I can also vouch for Anisette’s upcoming performance because last night I was lucky enough to see her sing one song as a special guest during her daughter Naja Rosa’s set at Spike Hill in Williamsburg.  Anisette went up on stage, barefoot like her daughter, dedicated the song to Malcolm X and went on to sing with such a captivating stage presence and strong voice that I felt privileged to experience every moment.

Last night at Spike Hill:

Friday, August 14, 2009
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY
11:30pm
The Woodstock Celebration
featuring Anisette of The Savage Rose
Buy tickets

The Savage Rose – Official Site

Wouldn’t it be so UNCOOL it’d be COOL to have a snowboard that looked like an old ironing board?

That thought makes me think of the Futurama (one of my all-time favorite TV shows) episode ‘Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch.’  Amy and Kif are expecting a baby (Kif, a male alien, is the one who is pregnant) and Amy’s mom has Amy’s party board converted to an ironing board.

According to Vintage Inspirations blog, in the days before teflon-coated ironing boards, women covered their wooden ironing boards by wrapping them in old bed sheets.  I would like to see an ironing board or a snowboard, whatever, probably an ironing board for me since I haven’t hit the slopes in years, with more recent awesome textile designs.

Maybe something from my favorite latter-20th Century design style, MEMPHIS!

Patterns by Ettore Sottsass, founder of Memphis Milano, via The Ettore Sottsass Museum

In reality I think I’d prefer a solid color ironing board, like BLUE.  Snowboards are COOLER than ironing boards, and therefore should be decorated fabulously to call attention to themselves.  I say this as someone who has only snowboarded twice, and used an iron maybe 50 times.

Taking this train of thought a step further, remember those design-your-own-mugs-and-plates-kits where you did a drawing and mailed it back to the company and they sent it back on a plate?  What about snowboards?  They should just do that for everything.  EVERYTHING.

Here’s one I did at Steph’s house when I was little:

And here are some new developments in ironing boards.

Liika Ironing board via Gizmodo.

IRON MAN Ironing Board

Image via I Want One of Those

I like the name but I find it very annoying that almost every write-up about the Iron Man ironing board includes something like ‘Finally, a way to have a man involved in ironing!’ That’s like something out of a mediocre sitcom.

-End Train of Thought-

Note: high cheekbones, chin dimple, and slim nose.

Image via www.postchronicle.com

Photo via www.nettavisen.no

Young Michael Jackson:

Image via www.psychologytoday.com

Whatever, it’s all O.K.

LINKS:

Was Omer Bhatti Michael Jackson’s Secret Love Child? [Vancouver Sun]
Jackson’s Secret Son No Secret to Family [MSNBC]
Does Jacko Have a Secret Child? [Fox News 2004]

Jessie Leavitt vs. Young Melissa Joan Heart