Posted on Leave a comment

Coffee, Tea or Me?

Coffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses

Coffee Tea or MeProduct Description

“In her new chic outfit, she looks like anything but a stewardess working. But work she does. Hard, too. And you hardly know it.” So read the text of a 1969 newspaper advertisement for Delta Airlines featuring a picture of a brightly smiling blond stewardess striding confidently down the aisle of an airplane cabin to deliver a meal.

From the moment the first stewardesses took flight in 1930, flight attendants became glamorous icons of femininity. For decades, airlines hired only young, attractive, unmarried white women.

They marketed passenger service aloft as an essentially feminine exercise in exuding charm, looking fabulous, and providing comfort. The actual work that flight attendants did—ensuring passenger safety, assuaging fears, serving food and drinks, all while conforming to airlines’ strict rules about appearance—was supposed to appear effortless; the better that stewardesses performed by airline standards, the more hidden were their skills and labor.

 

Continue reading Coffee, Tea or Me?

Posted on Leave a comment

War of the Worlds

original book by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

The Aliens:

AlienStructurally, the aliens are more like jellyfish than mammals. By examining DNA molecules, it appears that the aliens possess humans by using a cell phase matching technique. The aliens cells literally overtake the human cells through osmosis. As a result, they have access to the host body’s intelligence, and can control them physically. And yet there is no outward way for anyone to know.

Physiologically, the aliens have a liquid core which carries neurological information as well as arterial matter. Their stable, upright carriage is supported by a weblike musculature structure.

The aliens stand between 5 1/2 and 7 feet tall. It has a cyclops eye in the center of its forehead and it is a biped. It has three fingers, three toes, and three arms. Apparently, it has no skeletal structure per se.

Continue reading War of the Worlds

Posted on Leave a comment

WE CANNOT

Thou thinkest thou hast finished?
Three questions answer: How can I find out
How many years a crow lives?
To the farthest star
How great is the distance?
What do I now desire?

Friend, again we do not know.
Again all is unknown to us.
Again must we begin. 
Nothing has end.
1916

Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich