tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post643662417624997051..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Baby I Need Your Lovin'Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16963701197367610902013-12-02T10:54:22.093-05:002013-12-02T10:54:22.093-05:00My husband can see an aircraft or a tank for a qua...My husband can see an aircraft or a tank for a quarter of a second in a movie or film clip and tell me instantly whether it was the right one for that year of that particular war. I used to think he was making it up.<br /><br />I enjoy watching period movies: not historical dramas, which never get it right, but movies that capture a little piece of the culture of the year they were filmed in. I like to try to guess the year from the cars, clothes, hair, and cultural assumptions, particularly about whether women are recognizably human. I can do it only for the sixties and seventies, and to a limited extent for the eighties. After that I became an old fogey with only the most tenuous grasp of current culture--though cellphones, internet access, and airport security still provide pretty good clues from the nineties forward.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.com