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The Diogenes Club
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 5
Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 5
Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
Buttons - Activist - ca. 1988
I'm Registered to Vote, Are You?
On the curl: The Button Lady, Olympia, WA 98507, (206) 352-9511
Phone photo 1911
The Windermere Real Estate headquarters in Centralia, Washington
In the early 20th century this was the home of my great-grandparents, Theodore and Jennie Hoss. My Mother was born in this place. Supposedly, the ghost of my great-great grandfather, Walter Francis "Frank" Reeves, a crusty Wolverine Civil War vet, and later a civilian Custer scout (according to family lore) who came to Washington before statehood, died at the breakfast table in this house in 1916 and is still hanging around as a ghost there. Frank saw some horrible stuff in the Civil War, being at Cold Harbor and The Wilderness. He was also at Appomattox. I'm told he considered U.S. Grant, quote, "A drunken butcher."
I am so grateful to Windermere for preserving this structure. They did a beautiful and impressive job. This home was, I'm told, designed by the same architect who created Hoquiam's Castle.
$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 4
Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 4
Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Buttons - Activist - 21st Century
iVote
I live in a town where the Mayor's race tied, twice in a row, 1969 and 1973! They had to draw out of the Sheriff's hat to determine the winner both times. Same two guys, same Sheriff. The incumbent won the first time, the challenger the second time.
Sometimes your vote can count.
$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 3
Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 3
Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990. Bottom margin includes a scratched note to myself about cross-hatching, apparently. Reverse side has the start of a poster for the play Bootleg (1989), but for some reason I stopped early.
$25 ppd
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
$25 ppd
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
SOLD!
Buttons - Activist - 1999
Help Us Build, Sept. 22-26, 1999
I Support the Jaycees and the East County Playground Project
On the curl: GH Stamp Works, Aberdeen, Wash.
This button was promoting a playground project in Elma, Washington
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 2
Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 2
Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.
$25 ppd
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
Or order through PayPal
Buttons - Activist - 1974
WIN
On the curl: Bastian Bros Co, Rochester, NY
The brainchild of the Ford Administration, this was an acronym for "Whip Inflation Now." But rather than the grassroots wave the President was hoping for, the WIN campaign became the butt of jokes from a cynical public weary of Watergate and politicians.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Phone photo 1905
Cowlitz Landing
"At this place Hudson's Bay Company traders from Puget Sound loaded furs in canoes for transport to the Columbia River in the years 1836-1846. Then American settlers came up the river by bateau, barge and raft. A landing was built on the donation claim of F.A. Clarke and a hotel on the adjoining land of E.D. Warbuss. American settlers held a convention here in 1851 and petitioned for a new U.S. Territory north of the Columbia River. Steamboats came in 1858. They served the Cowlitz Valley until 1917."
"Erected by the Washington State Highway Commission."
My own ancestors may have landed here in the mid-1870s. This historic marker is within a stone's throw of the biggest "EAT" sign on Interstate 5 in Washington.
$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 1
Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 1. A standalone page.
$25 ppd
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
Or order through PayPal
Buttons - Activist - 1981
Immoral Minority
A button that cropped up in response to the "Moral Majority"
Phone photo 1903
Public trashcans in Astoria, Oregon cleverly celebrate their history of canning fish
$25 Sale - Original Art- Cranium Frenzy # 6 - Cover
Cover original art, Cranium Frenzy # 6.
$200 - Fetid Lake of Doom Original Art and Script
The Fetid Lake of Doom original art and script, finished in 2007, $200 ppd.
8 pages of artwork on medium stock paper, 30.5 x 22.5 cm. with perforated spiral binding marks along the right edge (I'm left-handed). Felt tip over nonphoto blue pencil.
The script was actually changed quite a bit in the course of drawing the thing, which is pretty normal for me. What is not normal is that the script still exists! Ballpoint pen on 6 yellow tablet sheets, 28 x 22 cm., lots of crossed out lines.
$200 ppd.
Check or money order to
Steve Willis
PO Box 390
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
Or order through PayPal
Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 2008
Obama/Biden, www.barackobama.com
On the curl: 29625 c2008, Tigereye Design 800-844-3729
Another button my Mom found and donated to the visual parade.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
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