Ironically Nostalgic Gifts

Going wireless

'We like to keep old timers involved in our expansion.'

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

'Have you forgotten, dear, that you gave your heart to me in nineteen ninety one?'

'It's a book, Sweetie - it doesn't have any ram!'

If you give a mouse a french cookie

'Gotta hang up now. My mom wants to recycle the phone.'

"You remind me of myself - you know - a while ago."

"He wouldn't have rolled over and over in agony on the bombed-out cinder pitches we had to play on!"

Sir Gawain Fitzwaugh, Rust in Peace

"Forty years ago on this very seat I proposed to you. Made up your mind yet?"

Teddy organ grinder

Head of Dumbing-Down

"The sixties are over, Ralph. The seventies and the eighties, for God's sake, are over. Give it a rest!"

For The Sentimental ExecutiveThe Charm Tie

Socially Distanced I heart N Y

Hot Dog Stand.

A call to save energy, based loosely on the style of second world war posters

ARISTOTLE WITH A BUST OF HOMER:

Son, when I went to school, I trudged for years knee-deep in student loans!

The first book signing.

"We've known each other for a while now, so I feel it's the right time to ask – are you a psychological manifestation of my nostalgic longing of a romanticised past?"

'I'm part of the losing things generation.'

"Sorry, Michael, but no dodge balls past this point."

Antiques. Special on Low-Def.

'Remember, kids. Pester your parents for Chunkos.'

'...aye lad, I remember when this was all snow.'

'Mmm that's a bit different for 8:45.'

SEX EDUCATION, 'Believe me, you don't WANT to know!'

"These days, I suppose it doesn't matter whether you've read Thomas Mann or not."

'I haven't gained much weight...I'll bet I can still fit into the pants I wore in high school...'

Man considering a bust of his younger self

"No one's last words were 'I wish I'd done more homework.'"

"When I was young, we were scared to the death of the boogeyman...el cucuy was a nasty, mean creature."

The Grave of the Manuscript