This one shot encapsulates everything that is great about America.
Hollywood, California
1950s, photographer Milton Greene
April 30, 2011
not again
William Tell reenactments: the leading cause of face and head injuries since the 15th century.
Tallahassee, FL
1948
from the FSU Heritage Protocol Photo Database
April 28, 2011
Joseph Shaw, age 73 y
I am honestly surprised that I have not, as yet, ever lived in a similar structure. I want to see the inside.
Nome Beach, Alaska
1905
April 27, 2011
revolution where it is found
One of [Ed Mead's] more notable efforts was Men Against Sexism (MAS), a group of "tough faggots" who forcibly stopped the buying and selling of prisoners by prisoners for the purpose of sexual exploitation [violent pimping of weaker prisoners by stronger ones] in Walla Walla. During the group’s zenith in 1978, MAS proved so effective that a feminine male prisoner could wear a dress around without threat of violence. MAS backed up their work with homemade grenades, single-shot rifles, and a willingness to die to stop prisoner-on-prisoner rape. "Of all the political work that I’ve done," says Mead, Men Against Sexism is what I’m most proud of."
- Daniel Burton-Rose
Walla Walla State Pen
1977 or 1978
from Feminisnt
not a fair weather friend
I guess there's no reason for both of them to have wet feet.
Ypsilanti, Michigan
1940s
be still my heart
I've said it before and I will say it again: one of the real dangers of doing a blog like this is that I sometimes fall in love.
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one of the best out there if you like this sort of thing.
April 26, 2011
the family that shoots together
Come the apocalypse, this family is gong to be hunky dory.
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April 24, 2011
High Times Indeed
Take these 6 people and write a scene around them. I feel like you could do this every day for a year and never run out of stories.
The cast of 7 Footprints to Satan
1929
from Black Hole Reviews
Hooverville
Wasn't all that long ago, really. Maybe just yesterday.
Seattle, Washington
1930s
from Vintage Seattle
April 23, 2011
It's Good to be King
I want to use his hand and the leg of mutton on a flier or something.
Illustration from the Queen of Hearts Cookbook
1955
April 19, 2011
sad state of affairs
I'm lacking in at home internet access until Friday, y'all, and then it will be back to our regularly scheduled programming.
And, since I'm thinking about it and have time to kill - what with the no having intarwebs thing - anyone want a letter in the mail? Email me with your address, I promise to only send paper and such, not curses and ax murderers.
drunkonpabst at gmail dot com
And, since I'm thinking about it and have time to kill - what with the no having intarwebs thing - anyone want a letter in the mail? Email me with your address, I promise to only send paper and such, not curses and ax murderers.
drunkonpabst at gmail dot com
April 12, 2011
The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky.
"Dear friends, both known and unknown to me, fellow Russians, and people of all countries and continents, in a few minutes a mighty spaceship will carry me into the far-away expanses of space. What can I say to you in these last minutes before the start? At this instant, the whole of my life seems to be condensed into one wonderful moment. Everything I have experienced and done till now has been in preparation for this moment. You must realize that it is hard to express my feeling now that the test for which we have been training long and passionately is at hand. I don't have to tell you what I felt when it was suggested that I should make this flight, the first in history. Was it joy? No, it was something more than that. Pride? No, it was not just pride. I felt great happiness. To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage single handed in an unprecedented duel with nature - could anyone dream of anything greater than that? But immediately after that I thought of the tremendous responsibility I bore: to be the first to do what generations of people had dreamed of; to be the first to pave the way into space for mankind. This responsibility is not toward one person, not toward a few dozen, not toward a group. It is a responsibility toward all mankind - toward its present and its future. Am I happy as I set off on this space flight? Of course I'm happy. After all, in all times and epochs the greatest happiness for man has been to take part in new discoveries. It is a matter of minutes now before the start. I say to you, 'Until we meet again,' dear friends, just as people say to each other when setting out on a long journey. I would like very much to embrace you all, people known and unknown to me, close friends and strangers alike. See you soon!"
(Yuri Gagarin)
Russian Stamp
1961
April 10, 2011
20th Annual Social Session, Free to Stockholders
Oysters, Celery, Olives, Radish, Almonds, Clam Broth, Brook Trout, Potato Parisienne. Apricot Brandy Punch. Larded Tenderloin, Fresh Mushrooms, Potato Croquett, Brussels Sprouts, Romain Salad, Camembert Cheese, French Dressing, Cafe Noir. Mumm's Champagne, Extra Dry. Deinhart and Co.s Famous Rhine Wine. R. B. C. Beer. This is what I am not having for dinner.
Reading Brewing Company Dinner Menu
Reading, PA
1906
from NYPL
quick trim
The customer here has no time for photography - looks like he just wants to make sure the barber wasn't too distracted.
Peru
1922
a good book
I get that this was a posed dirty picture, but what fetish are we addressing? I don't think their heads know what their asses are doing.
Paris, probably
1920s, photographer Jacques Biederer
The View From Above
You're 22, and the whole world's in love with you.
Melbourne, Australia
1964
from Vintage Photos on LJ
Bigger Jump
Compare and contrast, class. What one can do, another can, too.
Stand Rock in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
1886, photographer H.H. Bannett
from Camara Democratica
Hardhat Divers
Is it simply function that makes us, as a species, turn to this shape over and oven when we need to take our atmosphere with us? Or is it a reference to being in the womb - the round head, the fat arms and legs, the umbilical tube?
Onjuku, Japan
1950, photographer Iwase Yoshiyuki
from his website
April 6, 2011
the simple things
I dreamed one night that my tiny little apartment complex had a pool. It was one like this, or in a California motel in a movie, kidney shaped. I was carrying out a towel and a cooler and saying, "I'll spend all summer in it." I'm still disappointed.
Looks like Cali to me
1966
A Jolly Crew
I posted this one for the hats, especially the tam o'shanter twins there on the left. But there's no way they're all gonna fit in that canoe.
Wayzata, MN
1880s
from Hardenbergh.org
New Kind of Kick
There they go, inventing psychobilly.
Lux Interior and Poison Ivy,
onstage at CBGB in NYC
1979, photographer Ed Steinerts
April 5, 2011
Fort Hell
As a kid, I drew these huge, unlikely, sprawling, underground tunnel maps. Entire warrens of bedrooms, kitchens, storage space, booby traps, whatever I could think up and fit in. To me, this looks like the entrance to just such a world.
Petersburg, Virgina
1865, photographer Alexander Gardner
from the NYPL
Dashing
It really suits her, don't you think?
Frida Kahlo and family in Mexico City
1926, photographer Guillermo Kahlo
hunted down after seeing another shot on
equestrian pursuits
There are probably 800 things wrong with what's going on in this picture, from imperialism to animal abuse, but sometimes you just have to enjoy a picture of a man jumping a zebra over a pole.
East Africa
sleeps long and laughs
I wouldn't mind having that on a t-shirt, to be honest. Or it might make a good embroidery project for someone who does that sort of thing.
Georgia O'Keeffe's letterhead
1929
seen at Letterheady
April 3, 2011
Nude Caveman Wedding
I'm a notary public, you know, and in Florida we can perform weddings. I would like to state now that I would be happy as a clam to wed people in the company of dinosaurs, but there's no way I'm stripping down to do it.
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from The Invisible Edge
delightfully fresh
Indeed, that fish seems almost pathologically delighted.
Duchess Salad Dressing ad
1954
Tropical Living
I'd like to spend a summer in an RV park like this. There are still a few around - a little shabbier, but still just as pink and blue. Maybe work in the local bait shop. Work on the ol' novel.
Sarasota, Florida
1950s, I'd guess
from House of Hawthornes
the boys said okay - - feet first
There's something that I really, really enjoy about this cover. The man's face, determined, hers, adoring. Her hand on his back, the gun in his hands. Even his watch and the pattern of her dress.
Dig My Grave Deep Cover
1956, artist Lou Kimmel (a master of cover art)
from UK Vintage, seen at Pulp Covers
Spitalfields Nippers
And another thing - why, back in my day, we didn't grow facial hair. We had fake beards and liked it!
London, England
1912, photographer Horace Warner
from Spitalfields Life, seen at Nag on the Lake
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