Negative Space: seventies
- Jalapeño Potato Chip Cookies
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Potato chip cookies are amazing—crunchy and flavorful—and they’re even better made with kettle-style jalapeño chips! Potato chip cookies are a great way to celebrate National Potato Day.
- All the President’s Men
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Probably one of the most influential events in journalism history made into one of the best films of the seventies.
- Almost Famous
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This is the best DVD I’ve seen yet. It has not one, not two, but three discs: the third disc is a CD with music by Stillwater, including the Led Zeppelin-like “Fever Dogs”. Thought the snippets of that song was cool, it was too bad they didn’t write the whole thing? Fret no more, they did write the whole thing, and at least five other songs, all on the CD.
- Art Deco iPhone
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This has been my iPhone’s wallpaper since I got the 4S about a year ago. The iOS font selection has finally caught up with it.
- Baker’s Dozen Coconut Oatmeal Cookies
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The Baker’s Dozen coconut oatmeal cookies, compared to a very similar recipe from the Fruitport, Michigan bicentennial cookbook.
- Better for being ridden: the eternal lie of the anointed
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Whenever there’s a crisis, politicians and the media always tell us that if we do what they say, we’ll be all right. This is always a lie. And however often they fail and however many die from their ministrations, their wabbling fingers always return to the mire.
- A Bicentennial Meal for the Sestercentennial
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Four community cookbooks celebrating the bicentennial. As we approach our sestercentennial in 2026, what makes a meal from 1976?
- Boogie Nights
- The movie that inspired my sideburns. Filled with extras (this is the “platinum edition”), that apparently couldn’t even fit on one disk. Two commentaries, ten or so deleted scenes--also with commentary--and a music video.
- Detroit Rock City
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Four Cleveland high school kids ditch school in 1978 to see KISS at Cobo Hall in Detroit. Along the way they pick up Natasha Lyonne. What a trip!
- Dick
- Hey, if you can’t make fun of Watergate, what can you make fun of? Unfortunately, while they’ve ferreted out a number of jokes, they don’t go very far with them. The best jokes, are, of course, the “Dick” jokes, but Watergate really should be much funnier than this.
- Granola, the ultimate breakfast
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Granola tends to be the more expensive cereal in stores, but the easiest and cheapest to make at home.
- Hesperia Class of ’82
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The 40th reunion for the Hesperia High School Class of 1982 is July 15 through July 17, 2022. We look forward to seeing you!
- Hobby Computer Handbook: From 1979 to 1981
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Hobby Computer Handbook lived for four issues, from 1979 to 1981. Back in 1979 and 1980, I bought the middle two issues. I’ve recently had the opportunity to buy and read the bookend issues.
- The Missing Index for the Southern Living Cookbook Library
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I’ve compiled an index for all 22 (I think) of the Southern Living Cookbook collection. You can download it here, or buy a print copy if, like me, you prefer browsing.
- North Dallas Forty
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The “Any Given Sunday” of 1979, and probably as controversial. I was willing to see Nick Nolte in any number of crappy movies after North Dallas Forty (I think I gave up after 48 hours).
- Plain & Fancy in the seventies with Hiram Walker
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Enjoy a whole new world of fun, excitement and discovery in Hiram Walker Cordials, adding a personal touch to all your memorable moments and special occasions—plain or fancy!
- The seventies like a shooting star
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When creating ASCII art with the asciiArt script, you can maintain the color of an overlay even in areas where the photo is white, by using a block character instead of a space for the final character in the palette.
- St. Mary’s Altar Society Cookbooks
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The missing index for the St. Mary’s Altar Society cookbooks from 1976 through 1981.
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- City Nights/Frequency• (CD)
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Some amazing new wave songs here; Nick Gilder was a unique bit of the end of the seventies and these are his two best albums as far as I’m concerned. If you were around in the seventies, you’ve heard Hot Child in the City from City Nights, but the real highlights are the retro-futuristic songs from the rest of the album, which continued into Frequency. “I’m not clinging to my yesterdays. Tomorrow waits with a hungry gaze. It goes by like a trick of the eye. Still alive to take our chances as we go on into the eighties.” (Nick Gilder)
- Dazed and Confused Criterion edition•
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This movie is an incredible tale of sound and fury signifying high school. Linklater has crafted a beautiful story of a bunch of high schools students in Texas on the last day of school in 1976. There is no plot to get in the way of characterization. The soundtrack consists of seventies songs chosen specifically scene by scene for maximum impact. If you were ever in high school, you should see this movie for nostalgia reasons; if not, you should see it as an education. Slow ride, baby. Watch it in English or French, or with English or Spanish subtitles. Dazed and Confused is one hell of a movie; despite being set a thousand or so…•
