Posts Tagged ‘holiday’
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it”*…
Between 1977 and 1980, photographer Charles H. Traub [bio here] ventured onto the streets of Chicago, New York and various European cities to take photographs of their inhabitants–male and female, young and old-at lunchtime. Colorful and direct, animated and intimate, the portraits are shot close to the subjects, composed seemingly off-the-cuff, focusing on just their heads and shoulders. Each subject reveals something of himself or herself to the camera: the woman who takes the opportunity to pose in dignified profile or the one who purses her lips in an exaggerated pout, even the somewhat less fortunate subjects caught adjusting their glasses or blinking…
More from Traub’s trove at Lunch Time.
* Aldous Huxley
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As we ponder prandially, we might note that today is in fact National Pack Your Lunch Day.
“Enjoy every sandwich”*…
In late August, the U.S. District Court for The District of Puerto Rico dismissed an appeal on a civil suit filed there. The dispute, between Norberto Colón Lorenzana and South American Restaurant Corp., stemmed from a fried-chicken sandwich…
Both amusing and illuminating– the tale in its tasty entirety at “Can You Copyright a Sandwich?”
[Special intellectual property bonus: “The International Fight Over Marcel Duchamp’s Chess Set,” featuring Scott Kildall, whose “Playing Duchamp” was featured here earlier.]
* Warren Zevon
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As we ask for extra mayonnaise, we might note that this, the 20th day of National Chicken Month, is National Punch Day.
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