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Completed projects, projects underway, or projects on the "I'll-Get-To-Next List":knitting, sewing (on my circa 1941 301A Singer in that really spiffy deco cabinet), needlepoint, vintage clothing and acessories, Art Deco, art and architectual history, the decorative arts, cultural history, the Algonquin Round Table, collecting (especially deco British china, Anne Fogarty dresses, and deco vanity items), dress clips, punting, old, musty, hardcover books, historic preservation, gin and tonics, Pimm's, French 75s, Dunhills, glamourous smoking accessories, black & white film, Chanel No. 5, writing, maunal typewriters, John Held, wooden racquets, grass courts, and tennis whites, Liberty's of London, Penhaligon's Bluebell, tea, The Savoy, The Ritz (London), glamourous nightclubs which have long ago vanished, the niceties of life, elegance
Kindred spirits. Clever, witty, elegant people. Bright Young Things. Flappers and Philosophers. And those who missed their era.
Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, 1920s and '30s jazz/dance bands, The Andrews Sisters, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Bing Crosby, Michael Feinstein, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Bunny Berigan, Gertrude Lawrence, Noel Coward, Al Bowlly, Ray Noble, Jo Stafford, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Johnny Mercer, Helen Forrest, Artie Shaw, Judy Garland, Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Harry Connick, Jr. (especially his early days), Sam Cooke, The Fleetwoods, The Everly Brothers, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Cake, Chris Issak
Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, High Society, The Thin Man, Pillow Talk, Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Dead Poets Society, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Shadow of a Doubt, North by Northwest, That Funny Feeling, The Music Man, A Place in The Sun, Meet Me In St. Louis, Throughly Modern Millie, Singin' in the Rain, 12 Angry Men, Mister Roberts, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Best Years of Our Lives, Mrs. Miniver, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, Suspicion, Rebecca, Top Hat, Swing Time, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Gilda, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Big Sleep, Sabrina, My Man Godfrey, An Affair To Remember, Charade, Random Harvest
Campion, Brideshead Revisited, Miss Marple (with Joan Hickson), Poirot, To The Manor Born, Upstairs, Downstairs, The West Wing, Studio 60, The Bob Newhart Show, MASH, Remington Steele, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents
F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Dorothy Parker, Nancy Mitford, Daphne DuMaurier, Evelyn Waugh, Adolus Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, W. Somerset Maugham, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Naigo Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Carolyn Keene (the non-existent authoress and chronicler of the adventures of my life-long heroine Nancy Drew. Original 1930s versions only please. Or at least the 1950s versions with the yellow spines as a last resort.), Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, P.G. Wodehouse
Nancy Drew, Girl Detective, Albert Campion, Nancy Mitford, Sebastian Flyte, Bertie Wooster (and Jeeves), Tommy & Tuppance, Scott & Zelda, Gerald & Sara Murphy