Morty the Dog

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Phone photo 3142

Helium-filled Seahawk fever displayed next to the liquor section at a grocery store

Olympia, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Mar adentro = The Sea Inside

"Why does the Church cling so passionately to the position of fearing death? Because they know they lose a great deal of customers if people are no longer afraid of the Other Side."

Friday, January 24, 2014

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Jewel of the Nile

"Don't be ridiculous! Jack would never die without telling me"

Phone photo 3141

The Fetid Lake of Doom remains closed. And we know the real reason why.

Judita Čeřovská Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over = To se mi nezdá

"Ah, hello. Well first of all I'd like to apologize for the behaviour of certain of my colleagues you may have seen earlier, but they are from broken homes, circus families and so on and they are in no way representative of the new modern improved British Navy. They are a small vociferous minority; and may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new ratings are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find any toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up."
--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.

Petula Clark Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

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.

Burt Bacharach Plays Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Tommy Hunt Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Anna German Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Unidentified

Unidentified.

The final photo in the McDowell Family Album is also the only tintype in the group.

Phone photo 3135

Olympia, Washington

Thelma Houston Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

The Barack Obama Song

I like Barack Obama

Period.

Don't need no qualifier

Or comma

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."

Jennifer Warnes Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

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.