Been There, Almost

January 26, 2006

Lileks, mellowing,

Some kinds of offense are fine, depending on who’s being offended. I don’t care if the lingerie ads offend the burqua demographic, or whether a picture of a mixed-race couple in the homes section makes bigots knit their brows and hum a few bars of the "Horst Wessel Song" until they reach a centered place again.

has a new page scheme featuring old newspaper photos, context and detail that promises poetry. This is Sunday on Fifth Avenue in 1943, city buses absent because of wartime fuel shortage.

There are layers. And layers. Potentially sublime holography.