Psychology Today, magazine, Ziff-Davis Pub., July 1977

Blackout by James Goodman

Paperback,July 5 2005

On July 13, 1977, there was a blackout in New York City. With the dark came excitement, adventure, and fright in subway tunnels, office towers, busy intersections, high-rise stairwells, hotel lobbies, elevators, and hospitals. There was revelry in bars and restaurants, music and dancing in the streets. On block after block, men and women proved themselves heroes by helping neighbors and strangers make it through the night.

Unfortunately, there was also widespread looting, vandalism, and arson. Even before police restored order, people began to ask and argue about why. Why did people do what they did when the lights went out? The argument raged for weeks but it was just like the night: lots of heat, little light-a shouting match between those who held fast to one explanation and those who held fast to another.

James Goodman cuts between accidents, encounters, conversations, exchanges, and arguments to re-create that night and its aftermath in a dizzying accumulation of detail. Rejecting simple dichotomies and one-dimensional explanations for why people act as they do in moments of conflict and crisis, Goodman illuminates attitudes, ideas, and experiences that have been lost in facile generalizations and analyses. Journalistic re-creation at its most exciting, Blackout provides a whirlwind tour of 1970s New York and a challenge to conventional thinking.

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali: Best Thing I Can Do Is 'Get Ready to Meet God'

“To you who don’t believe in God, if I told you that this glass sprung into existence, this glass made itself, no man made this glass, would you believe it?” he said. “Would you believe if I told you this thing just made itself? “If I told you this television station just popped into existence. No man made it, you’d say Muhammad Ali is crazy. If this glass can’t make itself, if I told you those clothes you have on wove themselves. Nobody created them. Those clothes made themselves, you wouldn’t believe it. But if your clothes didn’t make itself, if that glass couldn’t make itself, if this building didn’t make itself, then how did the moon get out there? How did the stars and Jupiter and Neptune and Mars and the sun. How did nature? How did all this come here?”

US Vogue July 1977 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Portrait of model Patti Hansen wearing Max Factor make-up with a Richard Charles Glassen necklace.

Hair Marc Pipino Makeup Ariella

Photo Arthur Elgort

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'Til Death Do Us Part!

Captain Marvel #51

Average. Entertaining.

CM is attacked by Mercurio. Rick Jones is attacked by Doctor Minerva.

So, Rick and CM have been split apart. But Rick stays in the series, it seems. His scenes here are the least interesting aspect of the comic. The a-story is standard hero-attacked-by-villain fare. It's not revenge. Instead, this guy wants something CM has. Cap is a bit of a dick about it, though.

On Sale Date: April 26, 1977.

Scott Edelman (3 of 7).

Al Milgrom (15 of 17).

6/10

On this day, July 15

In 1977: It is Ray Toro's birthday! (🖤)

JESS GLEESON

"The Space Shuttle Enterprise is mounted atop a NASA 747 carrier aircraft on the runway of the Edwards Air Forces Base in southern California after the third captive-active flight (CA-3) of the Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT). CA-3 was a full dress rehearsal for the shuttle's first free flight the following month, and the pilots were Fred Haise and Charles Gordon Fullerton."

Note: the R4D and Mini-Sniffer in foreground.

Date: July 26, 1977

NASA ID: EC77-8143

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Vintage Poster - Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo

Buena Vista (1977)

Julie Christie in Demon Seed (1977).

Down With The Flumps

ℜ𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔟𝔬𝔴 - 𝔐𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡

The chosen man to fill Conan’s boots.

Julie Bell’s rendition of a famous Arnold pose from the great film, Pumping Iron (1977); placing him in a fantastic background to suggest what movie would lead him to stardom; John Milius’s Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Nightmare!

Ms. Marvel #7

Better than the previous issue. 

Ms. Marvel is now a prisoner of MODOK.

Lots of interesting stuff in this issue. Our protagonist has been captured, but her captor is unaware of several things about her and her costume. Ultimately, that helps her fight her way to freedom. And Carol impresses the reader as she aggressively does that. She’s a fighter, this one. 

MODOK story is explored, too. And we learn that he and his blue-suited AIM agents are secretly sequestered under AIM’s New York HQ! We also learn that this HQ looks like a department store! Lots of fun detail.

We also get some flashbacks to tell us more about Carol and Ms. Marvel, though the actual difference between them is unsatisfyingly vague here. the script makes some welcome changes in the character’s established status quo.

8/10