I had that dream again

we missed peak culture

Tonight's viewing - "Earth Light" directed by Guy Gilles

Peter Lorre as Moritz Stiefel in the play "Spring Awakening" - BOTD

Anne Francis gets some footwear assistance from Robby the Robot on the set of Forbidden Planet (1956). Fashion Friday.

Parade Costume for the French Manager 1917 • Pablo Picasso

Fester

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

1977, Australia. I have SO much respect for Aussie punks like The Saints & Radio Birdman (I know they are rock & roll, but the attitude was punk). Maybe so much great stuff emerged a little later precisely because it wasn't easy?

Blue Sky sample of the day / du jour (#234)

From the Bruce of Los Angeles Mardi Gras series

Containing 405 alphabet specimens from 164 languages, Edmund Fry's Pantographia (1799) is a treasure chest for the epigraphical imagination: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pantographia

He didn't mean to knock you down; he just doesn't know his own strength.

I should call her...

"Don’t try to explain it, just sell it." -Colonel Tom Parker #BOTD

Another new dance craze dropped.

June 26, 1990: Sonic Youth's Goo was released

🎶Wear celluloid collars and cuffs 🎶 🎶Of joy you'll have more than enough* 🎶 *As long as you'd enjoy turning into a frog, dancing to a banjo, and imitating William Tell's son. More out-there 19th-century collar and cuff ads here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

Donald Duck as Napoleon — Frank Cho

Vienna at night, Fred Lauzensky, 1950

Napoleon Crossing the Alps — Jacques-Louis David, 1801

The Irascibles 1950 • Nina Leen

No never, no never, no never no more Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore #FallFriday

Dress for the job you want

Good morning!

I had that dream again

Illustrations by C.S. Macdonald - (from a Science textbook published in 1960)

People who really need to take three aspirin..

Meet the Legion of Super-Pets

chubby infant's writing session ruined by blundering waspy-fly

I'd like to be one of those women who never have to go into the kitchen but I wouldn't want to be Nicola Sturgeon. (Image: Marisa Berenson-1960-70's supermodel before the word existed)

When you’re Irish and stay out in this heat for more than 3mins

SPOILERS Just watched 2001 and I never get over the scene where HAL kills Zippy.

Good morning from America's next Waffle House

Things like this...

Weekend's coming! Playtime! Image from a 1917 DIY book about “constructive-play” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manual-training-play-problems-1917/ #FridayFeeling

Friday mood

surviving is the new art form

No never, no never, no never no more Will I trust the elves of Dunsimore #FallFriday

An Evening with the FUGS - Cafe WHA? 1966 #CafeWha #MacDougalStreet #VintageNewYorkCity

Color TV debuted #OTD in 1951. The first color broadcast was a variety show aired on 5 CBS affiliates — notably co-directed by Frances Buss (1917-2010), TV's first woman director. Few saw it, because color sets weren’t on sale yet. And CBS’s color broadcasts were incompatible with B&W TVs. #TVSky

Iconic French photographer Robert Doisneau View of the Madeleine in Paris #Photography #Paris

I had that dream again

Blue Sky sample of the day / du jour (#233)

In 1973 Alice Cooper came to New York City at the invitation of Salvador Dali. The artist wanted to make a piece centered around Alice Cooper. The finished piece was a hologram entitled “First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper’s Brain.”

Hands up who is looking forward to 'Flying Ant' Day?