after the garden of the finzi-continis, found photo
Porcelain Poetry
Ah, the irony
square watermelons
Grow your own square watermelons just like they have in Japan. There is a lesson to be learned here.
found photographs of people sleeping
(via cynical-c)
Beaver stuffing kit
They say than men think about stuffing beavers every few minutes. The good news is that you can satisfy your cravings quickly and easily with this Beaver Stuffing Kit. Just squeeze a bunch of white stuffing into the beaver and it will be fat and fluffy before you know it. Keep it for yourself, give it as a gift, or show off that stuffed beaver to your friends and proudly proclaim “I did this. I stuffed this beaver up good.”
“Birthday Cakes of the Past”
I give up. I cannot select The Representative Image from among 231 photos currently posted to a Flickr pool devoted to found and family photos featuring birthday cakes. This one, titled My Second Birthday 1940, is awfully good, and there are 230 more at Birthday Cakes of the Past.
Dos personas en el centro de Sevilla
Andalucian mystery courtesy of Alexander Trevi’s Pruned.
found…
…at my desk, scrawled on a post-it, “everything is a dreamer.”
I have no idea why (or if) I wrote that.
On the Way to Lowe’s
Microsoft CEO Uses Mac for Presentation
a little more to the left
revision
I’m editing a novella I wrote in ‘89 and so far have found three things written on the back of pages.
1.
Dear Mr. Lish,
If I took care of the judgments, complaints, etc. in “Carnival” would you take another look?
2.
Check Masters of Library Science Program for Cindy
3.
this paper is about all sorts of things.
Abstinence Club
From the Daily Announcements at my daughter’s high school. I don’t know why this strikes me as funny. Maybe my daughter speaks the truth; maybe I am just creepy.
The Abstinence Club will meet today immediately after school in room 222. Please be prompt! All girls going to the fashion show on Saturday must attend.
Compare and Contrast
On the left, the head of the wood rat that Lena killed and partially devoured day before yesterday. On the right, one of her toy mice.
dear clusterflock
What’s for breakfast?
Vintage Microwave
Stephen reviews “A selection of curiosities from the free section of Craigslist”:
I am moving and sadly cannot take these chairs.You say you are sad, but you are moving because you want to get away from these chairs. These chairs are destroying you. They have held you hostage for years, threatening your family with their aggressive, visceral ugliness. Your entire post suggests Stockhom Syndrome, but don’t worry, we’ll get you through this.
There are 4 of them.This is worse than I thought. I’ve contacted the authorities. Your neighborhood is being evacuated right now. Take your birth certificate and passport, leave everything else behind. Leave the back door unlocked.
They are grey mohair.That almost sounds respectable, doesn’t it? Mohair. Get out of the house, now.
They roll.We appreciate the warning. This is an ugly that may be difficult to contain. Homeland Security is cordoning off all of San Francisco.
from under the house
Perfect timing pictures
From the downright hilarious to the utterly painful this collection of ‘taken just at the right time’ pics will have you cringing or laughing out loud (depending on how you view the world). The following are our most favourite ‘caught just at the right time’ pics. If you have seen better we’d love to hear from you.
A couple of these are photoshopped, but several are definitely great “perfect moment” snaps.
Je Ne Regrette Rien . . . except for . . .
Deron’s comments about wild hogs in north central Texas call to mind one of my few regrets.
World Famous Combs
On a shelf in a little store in my part of the world sit two plastic tubs, each filled with plastic combs. Taped onto one of the tubs is a sign bearing the legend:
EDDIE’S COMBS | “World Famous Combs” | GUARANTEED | EXTRA STRENGTH | 69¢ | UNBREAKABLE
moments
Once when I was rummaging through the remains of someone’s life in a derelict building I came across a suitcase of photographs, letters and old school exercise books. Many of the photographs are studio shots with carefully choreographed poses, especially the hands, which more often than not held some kind of stage prop. However in and amongst these are some rarer ‘snapshots’, situational photographs that convey a remarkable sense of time and place and raise in my mind a multitude of questions or scenarios. Perhaps something of a collective memory.
Bad Sign
Lost: Pet Sparrow
Fall Out Shelters (Deal, Kent) Ltd.
“These shelters are designed to withstand great stress and are virtually indestructible. They will protect their occupants against all known nuclear hazards. They are both blast proof and fall-out shelters. Fall Out Shelters (Deal, Kent) Ltd. build every type of nuclear shelter to suit most areas and conditions. They are constructed only of the best materials and are tested at every stage of manufacture.”
can a camera’s owner be found using only the photos as clues?
“I thought, with all this data in the camera, there’s no way we’re not going to get it back to them,” Nancy Ascher says now. “I was hoping it wasn’t going to take a trip to Ireland, flashing their pictures everywhere.”