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Weird shit going down in the suburbs?

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Found at this address in Flickr

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Tks to Cloggo (who else) for this carburettor.
I have yet to get my head round what a carburettor is but am assured a car won’t go without one or several. Since I don’t have a car I will put it to use instead as a combination pasta-maker, coffee grinder and hair-dryer.

Tks Cloggo!

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art-stuff: rhea137: libraryland: thehermitage:


Russian Lubok (popular print)

Inscription on the top:

“A copy [of the news] from the Spanish town of Vigo from the 6th of April. The fishermen of the village of Fustin (Enfesta?) caught a sea monster or the so-called water man and with great difficulty dragged him by force in the net ashore. This amazing and rarely seen monstrum or”

Inscription under the picture:

“sea wonder is from head to foot about 6 feet tall. Its head resembles a stake and is so smooth that it does not have even one hair on the top, only at the bottom it has a beard with long strands. The skin on its head and on the whole body is black and in some places covered with thin hair.
The neck of this water(??) old man is extremely long and the body unusually long and thick but in many respects it resembles the human body. The forearms and arms are very short, the palms are quite short, while the fingers are very long and up to the first joint, like a goose’s feet, they are grown together and from there they go like human fingers.
Its extraordinarily long nails resemble animals’ and even though this monstrosity has low hanging breasts, it is, by all indications, of masculine gender. Its loins are short and grown together to the knees, and the shins are not very long either, but they are separated.
Even though its feet are quite similar to human, the large toes hang quite close to each other like duck’s feet. On its heels it has fish’s scales, and on the skin of its back at the very bottom a bone has grown.
A fin sticking out from it is just like a woman’s fan, about 12 inches long, and when it opens it reaches even more than 12 inches.

This was from the St. Petersburg News in 1739

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Do go to the source if you like these. I loved the prints and the folk mythology behind them is fascinating.

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I woke up this morning with the sun out shining in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag but then
I tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed in
I watched myself crawling out now, as I came crawling in
I got up so tight I couldn’t unwind
I saw so much, I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in


Somebody painted April fool in big black letters on a dead end sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles out of Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

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Cleverest music video I’ve seen for a long time consists of the musicians being placed in a tableaux of famous paintings. Don’t know the music and it doesn’t matter — this one’s about the pictures.

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Photo manipulation by Inesa Kayuta found on DeviantArt

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Neil Young sings Long May You Run — this is a clip from the Vancouver Olympics closing ceremony. If you watched that you may have had the same experience as me … hairs standing up on back of neck? Young just gets better with age. He radiates emotion!

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PENTANGLE
Forty years plus later, they STILL amaze me with their musicianship!
This is an immaculate live performance of The Travelling Song from 1968.


More excellent live clips:

Light Flight

I Got a Feeling

Hunting Song

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“I photographed a former synagogue that had been turned into a radio station, a monastery used as a gulag, a nobleman’s mansion transformed into a children’s theatre …”


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Andrew Moore


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