"Don't be ridiculous! Jack would never die without telling me"
The Diogenes Club
Friday, January 24, 2014
No Cannibalism
--Graham Chapman, Monty Python
Phone photo 3138
Baby shoes, a Yardbirds crow, a giant jar of Marmite.
I think there's a lesson here for everyone.
Phone photo 3137
About half a century ago I made this plaster car as part of a school project. I think we were supposed to create what we thought cars of the future would look like. Well, here I am in the future but I don't see any of these on the road-- yet.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Phone photo 3136
Even in elevators it is impossible to escape the Seahawk frenzy around here. It is fun to see people get so excited about something. And I am not a football fan.
Wouldn't it be great if we could see this same kind of intense united energy around something like eliminating homelessness, funding public education, providing better institutional care for the forgotten developmentally disabled, seniors, mentally ill, and other marginalized populations?
That'll be the day.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Unidentified
The final photo in the McDowell Family Album is also the only tintype in the group.
Monday, January 20, 2014
Ellsworth Boy, Marie Ross
Written on verso: Ellsworth Boy, Marie Ross
Imprinted on front: Pierson Bros.
More than likely taken in Casey, Illinois. I have no idea how these two children are connected to the family.
The Grover Cleveland Song
They supposedly named a candy bar
After his baby Ruth
And he had a rubber jaw
Where you'd normally find a tooth.
He was an honest, plodding man
and certainly no dumbo.
To his pals he was "Big Steve,"
Or simply, "Uncle Jumbo."
Favorite Movie Quotes: Romancing the Stone
"What did you do, wake up this morning and say, 'Today, I'm going to ruin a man's life'?"
Mary
Written on verso: Mary
Printed on verso: I.H. Bonsall, Photographer, Arkansas City, Kan.
This small photo is partially wrapped in purple crêpe paper. The back flap has something written on it that I cannot quite decipher.
I.H. Bonsall had been an apprentice to Matthew Brady, visually documenting the US Civil War. Bonsall was active in Arkansas City, Kansas in the 1870s.
As for Mary, the little girl with the determined stance, I really don't know who she is. Ellen Snyder McDowell, the keeper of this album, did have a little sister named Mary Snyder who would've fit the age of this girl. But I am unable to explain why Ellen's sister would be in Kansas when the rest of the family was in Casey, Illinois.
The Andrew Johnson Song
If Andrew Johnson
Hadn't been such a stubborn cuss
Congress would be running the country today--
A reality from which may the Lord ever deliver us!
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Morty Comix # 2688
The Theodore Roosevelt Song
Theodore Roosevelt
Loved war
But then his son was killed in battle
And TR died shortly after
A broken man
Favorite Movie Quotes: Robin Hood: Men in Tights
"I vow to put an end to the injustice, right the wrongs, end the tyranny, restore the throne, protect the forests, introduce folk dancing, demand the 4-day work week, and affordable health care for Saxons."
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