Antiquarians

Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers’ dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009

[Found here.]

Acolouthic Hot Links

Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.

Lolo Face.

Cirrus Surfer.

Soho George.

UFO crash site.

Bark bark bark.

Poling bamboo.

Listen to a moth.

Donkey nannies.

Wendy’s watching.

Self Defense in MA.

Eh. Eh. Ah, ah, ah.

Norty Blues Episode 81.

Escape from Springfield.

Streetscapes in watercolor.

The CPI continues to climb.

Cool maps you’ve never seen.

Nice magazine. Want to sell it?

The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.

Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.

The worst movie death scene ever.

Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].

Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]


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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

 

 

Detumescent Hot Links

B-Gas Rickshaw, The Raybeats (1981)
  The Raybeats were an instrumental “no wave” surf rock band from New York (1979-1984). From their album Guitar Beat, this song is a remake of Jan Berry‘s “B” Gas Rickshaw (1964).

Rough seas.

Grow up, Jess.

Grannie Farm.

Hawkin’ the C.

Satan was bored.

The Wind Games.

AI meets Raygun.

Nature vs. Nurture.

Make the Logo Bigger.

Favorite Maple Syrups.

When lightning strikes.

Norty Blues Episode 78.

Aboriginal culture is recent.

Daddy sang bass [via IDHMGO].

To Catch A Thief [via Bunkerville].

Storytime With Mr. A [via Mme. Jujujive].

The 180th Annual Vankleek Hill Agricultural Fair.

Those zany DC superheros! [via The View From Lady Lake].

I ranked at turtle level on the CPS Test [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Illustration by R. Crumb for Charles Bukowski‘s Bop Bop Against The Curtain, Arcade – The Comics Revue #3 (Fall 1973).]


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X-Rays of Taxidermy

Prints of taxidermy X-rays are available for purchase here. Be careful with that site or you may be busy for a while. Bottom right is Baby Lilly, from an “X-Ray Your Toy” event held at the Conservation Centre, National Museums Liverpool, England, found here.

All About Tardigrades

In summary:

[Found here while looking for something else. UCL = University College London.]

Picasso’s Girls

[Found in here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Land of the Cows

[Landscapes with cow backs found here. Click images to view them properly.]

Colored Paper Wasp

[Found here. More photos and story (in Italian) here.]