as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
as an exploratory journey through that old party question: if you could have a drink with anyone in history, who would it be? History is full of people you’d love to have a drink with. Let’s meet a few.
Have a drink with: Glenn Miller Pennsylvania six-five-thousand! Ask him about: giving Sousa some swing Chances are, if I say “Glenn Miller,” something like “Moonlight Serenade” floats into your mind on cottony clouds, the dreamy musical equivalent of a Vaseline filter; or maybe it’s the sharp, perky big-band swing of “In the Mood.” Point is,…
Have a drink with: Spike Jones The best offense is a good fart joke. Ask him about: firearms as percussion instruments In 1942, New York radio DJ Martin Block sold war bonds on air – to an audience that was under wartime food and gasoline rationing – on the promise that he’d give a free…
Have a drink with: Dr. Seuss Would you, could you, fight the war? Ask him about: why Yertle the Turtle just might be Hitler. We know Theodore Seuss Geisel as a children’s author, a playful champion of absurdity and literacy who gave us green eggs, cats in hats and an absolute lock on what to…
Have a drink with: Maria Altmann and Elizabeth Taylor Art lovers, ladies of style, legal pit-fighters. Ask them about: goddamn Nazis. Behavioral advertising is like unexpectedly running into an ex: it seems to know an awful lot about you in ways you forgot you made possible, but for the most part just makes you feel…
Have a drink with: Bruno Schulz Writer, artist, cultural property puzzle, cult superstar Ask him about: making hipsters’ heads explode. My husband recently bought a bag from a company whose gleeful tagline was, “They’ll fight over it when you’re dead.” If post-mortem squabbles are really how you know you’ve hit the big time, Bruno Schulz is…
Have a drink with: The Monuments Men Artists, soldiers, detectives. Ask them about: giving Dwight Eisenhower an art tour in a salt mine First things first: why make a movie about these guys? Was art looting really a big deal in WWII? It was a really big deal. It’s easy to assume that the scattering…
