domingo, 21 de febrero de 2016
domingo, 14 de febrero de 2016
Hoovervilles (we are not blaming anyone, huh?)
Hello there, I recovered the ownership of this blog (at last) Miss Janis Dumont went back to her time, I hope she didn't live in a Hooverville during the Depression, she was a really nice girl...
Hoovervilles were... well... a place where homeless people used to live during the depression. These kind of guettos still exist nowadays, they are called shantytowns.
These "neighbourghoods" were made of shanties. Shanties are houses made of trash and very weak materials, these were not the ideal place to live, but at least people could sleep under a roof...
They were named after the "magnificent" (irony sold separately) president Herbert Hoover, that was usually blamed for the crisis, this term was invented by the democrat Charles Michelson, the propaganda director.
These Hoovervilles appear in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.
Hoovervilles were... well... a place where homeless people used to live during the depression. These kind of guettos still exist nowadays, they are called shantytowns.
These "neighbourghoods" were made of shanties. Shanties are houses made of trash and very weak materials, these were not the ideal place to live, but at least people could sleep under a roof...
They were named after the "magnificent" (irony sold separately) president Herbert Hoover, that was usually blamed for the crisis, this term was invented by the democrat Charles Michelson, the propaganda director.
These Hoovervilles appear in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.
Photo taken from Simiocracia: Crónica de la Gran Resaca Económica
miércoles, 10 de febrero de 2016
I'm a flapper... and I love it!
Hello there, I'm Janis Dumont and I'm a flapper, if you're asking where is the owner of this blog, don't worry. He's not kidnapped (officially) he's just taking a walk... he has allowed me to use his blog to write about flappers. You may be asking how I have managed to get to this time, well, it was easy (just some time travelling from there to here...).
And now with something completely different... let's talk about me.
As you already know, my name is Janis Dumont, I'm from Maryland, but I'm living in
New York (the neversleeping city), I'm also 25, I work for an advertising company as an administrative (but I can make better adverts that some old dinosaurs in there) and I'm single, I don't want to be tied to a man this young, although my parents want me to ( they're very narrow sighted).
On a Friday I usually meet my friends and we take my brand new car ( they're very cheap right now, is that good? I suppose so) we tease some drivers just to have fun, we're urban toreadors. Oh, I almost forgot we also wear our high heels, and when I say high I mean high... oh, and our "provocative" dresses, last week an old man almost suffered from a heart attack when he saw our knees, not to forget our make-up. Some old dinosaurs called whores to modern women, well they'll be soon forgotten fossils and women around the world will be strong, independent and as good as men.
When we get to the dance saloon it crumbles at the rythm of charlestone and jazz, these new music styles are amazing, when we get tired of dancing we smoke and drink at speakeasies (don't tell to authorities).
All in all we just want to have fun.
See ya!
J.D.
And now with something completely different... let's talk about me.
As you already know, my name is Janis Dumont, I'm from Maryland, but I'm living in
New York (the neversleeping city), I'm also 25, I work for an advertising company as an administrative (but I can make better adverts that some old dinosaurs in there) and I'm single, I don't want to be tied to a man this young, although my parents want me to ( they're very narrow sighted).
On a Friday I usually meet my friends and we take my brand new car ( they're very cheap right now, is that good? I suppose so) we tease some drivers just to have fun, we're urban toreadors. Oh, I almost forgot we also wear our high heels, and when I say high I mean high... oh, and our "provocative" dresses, last week an old man almost suffered from a heart attack when he saw our knees, not to forget our make-up. Some old dinosaurs called whores to modern women, well they'll be soon forgotten fossils and women around the world will be strong, independent and as good as men.
When we get to the dance saloon it crumbles at the rythm of charlestone and jazz, these new music styles are amazing, when we get tired of dancing we smoke and drink at speakeasies (don't tell to authorities).
All in all we just want to have fun.
See ya!
J.D.
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