“I’d like a Fat Man’s Misery, easy on the mayo, and a glass of buttermilk. The little lady here will have the Ruins of Karnak and a cup of Postum.”

From the menu of the Mammoth Cave Hotel. (NYPL Restaurant Menu Collection.)

I am looking for your T-shirts you don’t wear anymore and they are just sitting in your closet collecting dust.

Found. December 31, 2011.

Chicago Screenshots is a (slowly growing) collection of Chicago-centric movie and television stills, presented as architectural and urban landscape photography.

Commentary courtesy of Aunt Ida (Edith Massey), “Female Trouble” (John Waters).

Europeans have all the fun: lower drinking ages, funner beaches, easier lifestyles and . . . dinosaur skeletons having sex in their museums. This exhibit, which clearly shows two T-Rexes “mating”, is located in the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Spain.

Via @leatherarchives.

Living in the county long enough, you begin to feel that you know every road, every creek, and even every cow; but there are still places hiding out there, waiting, scattered amid the leaves, in the lonely hollows.

But where are we? Where have we gone?

Somewhere Beyond the Corn.

Enter one-foot-in-front-of-the-other. Hold the compass outward like a fishing pole. These places should not be trusted.

I heard that she saw a man — a man grinning like a ‘possum. Things changed after that. Small things. She started to find bulbs of garlic — horrid little hardnecks, their skins spotted and too crimson — in the glove box of her car. She didn’t even grow garlic. Then the post-its began. Empty, naked papers covered either arm when she awoke in the morning. They’d be there like the frost, blanketing her skin, always void and blank. Fed up, she set up a video camera, confident she’d find the culprit. But in the morning she only found definitive proof that she snored — and more post-its.

Don’t look for the tunnel. If you find it, stay out of it. And don’t look for Redington. There isn’t any good in it.