Out of Order: Motel Room with Tanning Bed
From photographer Jan Normandale of somewhere up there north of the US-Canada border.
My truck conked out at 7:00 pm on the Trans-Canada Highway halfway across the top of Lake Superior between Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and Thunder Bay, Ontario, a driving distance of 690 km/431 mi with no services between Wawa, Ontario and Terrace Bay.
Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser’s Husband)
Looks as though Cooper and I are sitting at home (our respective homes) on the eve of a (US) holiday weekend. He is listening to Wagner, and I am watching Patrice Leconte’s Le Mari de la Coiffeuse, which I have not seen since 1991.
Carry on.
A Great Fucking Movie
Statement by Roger Ebert, read by Chaz Ebert a couple of days ago (September 1) at a 20th Century-Fox 75th anniversary event: a screening of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, co-written by director Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert:
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls has survived the test of the years, and is one of the most frequently-revived films of its time. It was one of a kind. My congratulations to Dolly, Harrison, and John. I do not believe in dreams, but Russ appeared in one of mine last night and dictated this message:
Quote, “I was deeply offended when Fox ignored BVD in its 50th anniversary book. It’s about time those bastards acknowledged that we made a great fucking movie.”
Teenager did sex intercourse with cow in Bali.
After the incident, the village board held a meeting immediately. “We’ve been exploring the following principal owner of the cow family,” said Legawa, Thursday (10/06/2010).
Sex Intercourse between humans and animals is not the first time this has happened in this tourist destination island. Previously, an old man has sex with a cow in Buleleng.
For clearing the village of moral turpitude, the party holding the ceremony and throw the village into the sea cows, while the grandfather is only bathed on the beach because the Village will also be conducting the ceremony (piodalan) in Pura Dalem temple.
(Thanks to Dr. Tee.)
The Big Sister I Never Had in Real Time
Do the Wa-TU-si and learn how TO see.
Land of a Thousand Dances
Let your backbone slip. March 1955.
Locomotive Restoration — Wil Freeborn
Flocker Wil Freeborn was recently commissioned to do a series of illustrations documenting a two-month project underway to restore an old locomotive. The Glasgow Museum of Transport is moving from its old location to a new building designed by Zaha Hadid, and the locomotive will be one of its centerpieces. Wil’s illustrations will appear as part of an interactive panel.
Take a look at the full Flickr set, which includes Moleskine sketches, finished illustrations, and photographs — including this one featuring Our Wil, far left.
Must Be Willing to Drive to Dubuque
OFFERED: 15 Men’s Neckties
Ties all in good shape spanning styles from 1940′s to 1990′s, silk to polyester, paisley to plaid, Lucien Amato and Beau Brummel sold at Hess Bros. in Rockford, Ill to Gant and Sears’ “Fashion Collection.” They’d be great for a self-confident elementary school art teacher, high school math teacher or college anthropology prof. In Dubuque.
Reflections on Saturday’s Lincoln Memorial rally
from a German friend:
i just have seen on TV that they, Palin and a little fat boy, made a demonstration of stupid people on a place where M.L. King spoke.
i remember when I first saw M.L. King, and i remember that I looked and listened very carefully to this man.
And these people around a thing called Palin should not make us physically ill, Sheila.
They have made the wrong thing on the wrong place at the wrong time. Next time they should do it on their little private toilet — good place for that.
A little fat boy. On his little private toilet. Next time. Hope springs eternal.
What can it mean?
What can it mean that waffles figured in two thumbnails practically adjacent (separated by one image) in this morning’s display of photos from my Flickr contacts?
From Kelsey Parker and Elisabeth Bjone.
Waffles!
“I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy”
Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
The Show Starts in [?] Minutes
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Google’s transcription of a phone call from Robert Ledgerwood’s mother reminded me of the last words of Dutch Schultz, as transcribed by a stenographer at the dying gangster’s bedside in Newark City Hospital.
OK, OK, I am all through. Can’t do another thing. Look out, mama, look out for her. You can’t beat him. Police, mama, Helen, mother, please take me out. I will settle the indictment. Come on, open the soap duckets. The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please help me up, Henry. Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone.
Sad News from a Friend of Clusterflock
Sunday evening the friend known here as Walt lost his brother-in-law Andrew to multiple myeloma. Walt and his wife did not know that Andrew’s prognosis was terminal until lunch time on Saturday. Andrew’s father died a week and a half ago, and the immediate family had not wanted to distract from that memorial service.
The memorial service for Walt’s brother-in-law will be on Sunday.
Normal in Every Respect: Update
At present there is no cure for lymphatic filariasis, the end stage of which is the condition known as elephantiasis, but the tetracycline antibiotic drug doxycycline can help reduce transmission of the disease by killing symbiotic bacteria in reproductive tracts of roundworms.
Doxycycline is the drug I am taking to treat Lyme disease.
Catch of the Day
Sorry, Cindy. No peanut butter. Just cheese on cheese.
Portable Ice Fishing Tent on a Sled
We have an ice fishing tent that is on a portable plastic sled, zips shut and is easy to carry. Reply if interested.
Must be willing to drive to Dubuque.
Note: I am not the Freecycling “Sheila” who is offering this portable ice fishing tent on a sled.
National Library of Haiti (January 12 2010)
Security cameras at Haiti’s National Library in Port-au-Prince captured these scenes from the initial moments of January’s quake. I find the footage weirdly hypnotic.
And yes, the date/time stamp is a week off.
Normal in Every Respect
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner
Cooper and Deron and Cindy and Daryl know who I’m talking about. It’s the perfesser — Dr. Tee — in Denton, Texas. I done told her about my Lyme disease diagnosis, and she wrote:
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you Lyme, you make margaritas.
The Cartographic Me (Plate I: Legs)
They looked like maps — the wan portions the Amazon or the Orinoco or the Congo and all the rest the Vast Uncharted Interior.
How’d you like a nice . . .
OFFER: 5 Big Jugs of Hawaiian Punch Juice
Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:59 am (CDT)We have 5 huge jugs of Hawaiian punch juices unopened that we got on sale
and never drank and they’re just taking up space. You pick up!
Must be willing to drive to Dubuque.
Map moves from archive to artwork
“Rivers, Rails and Trails.” Miller Nichols Library addition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The official title of the 1926 document is blandly descriptive: “Industrial and Railroad Map of Greater Kansas City.” You’re forgiven if those words generate not a spark of curiosity, much less inspiration.
But what if the original desk-top map were the size of a building, the image re-created through a series of perforations on metal, the whole thing lighted from behind?
Large Art
at no added cost.
Cluster Lore
The initial reference to a pee chute.
