The Diogenes Club
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Favorite Movie Quotes: Wyatt Earp
Buttons - State Campaign - 1972
Dore, Attorney General, Try Him You'll Like Him
Fred Dore, a Democrat, borrowed a popular television advertising phrase used by Alka-Seltzer at the time, "Try it, you'll like it." But he still lost the 1972 election for Washington State Attorney General.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Buttons - State Campaign - 1968
O'Brien
Robert S. O'Brien, a Democrat, served as Washington State Treasurer for 100 years. I picked up this button in 1968. This specimen has a couple beautiful qualities. First, the image itself projects luck. Secondly, since the button merely has his surname, O'Brien could use this same image for several election cycles.
Comic art fans will be interested to know O'Brien's Republican opponent in 1968 was Eddie Alexander, the same guy who owned the print shop with the very rude workers who printed Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Buttons - State Campaign - 1968
Governor John O'Connell, Democrat
In 1968 three term Washington State Attorney General John J. O'Connell made an attempt to unseat incumbent Gov. Dan Evans. I like the way the designer of this button used the now outdated voter lever in place of an apostrophe.
Although Dan Evans enjoyed the nickname "Straight Arrow" in his 12 years as Governor of Washington State, I must say I recall all three of his gubernatorial campaigns, 1964-1972, as being quite nasty. In fact, in his last campaign he employed serial killer Ted Bundy.
Phone photo 1845
Roth and I have a history, as portrayed in my minicomic, Musical Chairs.
By the way, I cannot praise the Beehive enough. A great place to stop for you Puget Sound folks on the way to the coast. Monty, our county seat, is a nice town and worth exploring a bit.
Phone photo 1844
Yah its Fxxking Dusty! Slow
Sign seen at truck scaling station
White Star, Grays Harbor County, Washington
White Star, Grays Harbor County, Washington
We are experiencing unusually dry weather this month in this land of perpetual rain
Buttons - State Campaign - 1968
Dan Evans
I found this button on the ground when Washington State Gov. Evans was running for his second term in 1968.
Comic art historians might be interested to know Gov. Evans, along with State Sen. Gordon Sandison, was an important figure in the creation of The Evergreen State College. TESC is now known as a hotbed of cartoonists. When Gov. Evans stepped down after serving an unprecedented consecutive three terms as Governor, he became the President of Evergreen and it was viewed as a very controversial move at the time.
The editor of the school paper, The Cooper Point Journal, during this turmoil was none other than Matt Groening. And here's a bit of Matt trivia. He's not only a great cartoonist, he's also a great journalist. He could've been an amazing investigative reporter, but as it happened his talents were used to better advantage.
Here's yet another bit of trivia. The Evans administration actually employed me ca. 1976 to conduct phone polling. I got paid per each completed survey. It was a night job conducted by college students mostly. This gig was very educational for me in that I heard the vox populi unfiltered.
Buttons - State Campaign - 1974
Brown for Governor
I picked up this button in Santa Barbara in the summer of 1974, when Jerry Brown was running for the office of Governor of California
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Phone photo 1841
Deschutes River, Tumwater, Washington
The low rainfall this time of year has afforded us more of a view of Mother Nature's sculpture on the riverworn rocks than usual.
Buttons - State Campaign - 1930s
Martin For Governor
Clarence Martin, a Democrat, served as Washington State Governor from 1933-1941. His political base was in Cheney, near Spokane. He was the last Governor here arriving to office directly from Eastern Washington.
This button is quite small, about the same size as a nickel.
Phone photo 1839
Buttons - Federal Campaign - 1988
Don Bonker, U.S. Senate
Congressman Bonker had a strong showing in the 1988 U.S. Senate Washington State primary, but fell short of gaining the Democratic spot for the general election.
Buttons - Federal Campaign - 1988
Mike Lowry, U.S. Senate
On the curl: Paid for by Mike Lowery [sic] For U.S. Senate Committee, Mary Lowery Treasurer
Possibly from his earlier run for the same office in the 1983 special election, but I'm guessing I picked this up in 1988. He lost both elections, but went on to serve one term as Washington State Governor, 1993-1997.
$25 Sale - City Limits Gazette Misc. Packet
City Limits Gazette # blue sky blue (May 1991), slightly dented
City Limits Gazette # zillion and six (May 1991), gentle vertical crease in middle
City Limits Gazette # hup, hup, hey! (July 1991), excellent condition, no creases
City Limits Gazette # dead porcupine icebox (Oct. 1991), excellent condition, no creases
State of Beings # 11. Georgia! (June 1992), slight and gentle crease on lower right corner. Given the color of the paper, I'm thinking this was a special printing not distributed with CLG as a bonus.
City Limits Gazette # ** (Mar. 1993), excellent condition, no creases, very small stain on edge of cover.
City Limits Gazette # Zizz (Mar. 1993), excellent condition, no creases
City Limits Gazette # Ecstatic static on automatic (Mar. 1993) No creases, but cover appears to have some small red watercolor(?) stains
None of the above issues of CLG include the State of Beings bonus comic.
CLG was normally folded before it was mailed to subscribers, so unfolded copies are quite unusual to find.
$25 ppd
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PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
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