The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

He’s already nailed his dad’s scowl.

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I wish I could say it’s Photoshoppery, but this photo was taken by the Hartford Courant and appears in their April 20th article, Hundreds parade through Hartford to protest Gov. Ned Lamont’s coronavirus stay-at-home orders, business closures.

If you understand Spanish, you know what this means. If you don’t, it says “I bow to the divine in you, enlightened one.*”

* No, it doesn’t, idiota.

Thanks to Roberto Torres for the find!

Need some “video wallpaper” to have on in the background? Care to see one of the world’s iconic museums? Want some new walls to look at? Here’s a five-hour tour of the Hermitage Museum, located in “the other St. Petersburg”, shot on an iPhone 11 Pro in one take.

There are a couple of things you should take away from Trump’s news conference yesterday, in which one of the suggestions he made

1. A news conference is not the time for spitballing. You can do that in closed meetings and brainstorming sessions, but doing it in a news conference undermines its purpose: to get one to three messages across.
2. This is only the most recent incident where someone has suggested to a nationwide audience that maybe disinfectants could be applied internally.

Case in point: Old ads for the Lysol. Today, we know it as a household cleaner, but when it first came out, it was marketed in different ways. In its earliest days, it was marketed as a way to help fight epidemics and pandemics — first in 1889, with the cholera outbreak in Germany, and then in 1918 for the flu pandemic of that era. But in the 1920s, it was billed as a feminine hygiene product — housewives were told to douche with good ol’ Lysol.

There’s also a connotation to the phrase “feminine hygiene” that a modern reader would miss — according to historian Andrea Tone, the term was also a euphemism for contraception, which isn’t surprising, given that the U.S. once had the repressive Comstock laws. She writes about it in her book Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America.

Here’s a selection of old Lysol ads. Read ’em, and give thanks Lysol isn’t marketed that way anymore.

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Kudos to Cass Street Deli for participating in The Restaurant Workers Relief Program, which converts restaurants across the country into relief kitchens. If you’re a service industry worker who’s lost their job or have their hours cut, you can pick up a dinner from Cass Street Deli from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. each day until at least May 11.

Here’s what Suzanne Crouch, Cass Street Deli’s executive chef has to say:

“I think it’s important for people to realize that they’re not forgotten and and even before the pandemic good food equals good mood and we’re just trying to keep that cycle going you know.”

Roberto Torres speaks at Café con Tampa, March 6, 2020.
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Roberto Torres, whom you probably know from his Blind Tiger Cafés, bought Cass Street Deli recently, and has this to say:

“It’s a flood with no water or a hurricane with no wind so we’re really trying to figure out how is it that we can utilize our skill set and turn our kitchen into an emergency or relief kitchen to help other people.”

Cass Street Deli is still open for regular business for curbside pick up or delivery within their radius. In addition, the restaurant is accepting donations that provide meals to first responders and front line workers.

I’m going to give them a donation. If you can, you should too!