One of the many fantastic illustrations to be found in Dr Alesha Sivartha's enigmatic 1898 work titled The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man. Via Public Domain Review.

Chrissy Callas Big Head, 1990 Ceramic

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“The place in which I’ll fit Will not exist Until I make it.” -James Baldwin

What I'm reading tonight.

“If you sit quietly, like you’re fishing, you will catch ideas.” -David Lynch

“I think making jokes is always a way of being subversive without being directly confrontational.” -Roz Chast

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Jyorin-chan, a flying fig, is the mascot for Joyo City in Kyoto.

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“You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit!” — Willy Loman, 1949.

Apply to the forehead.

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.” --Seneca

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. — Arnold J. Toynbee

W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty.

“I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream.” — David Lynch

"Love for canine pets in particular was one of the most attractive features of the ancient Roman character.” -Arnold Toynbee

The Beach Boys loved KFC fried chicken.

“I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” -Darth Vader, MBA

Minatan, a diver with a basket of seafood on her head, is the mascot of Minamiboso City, Chiba.

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"We’re cooking regional Indian food with the world’s best Japanese knife, but asking Siri how much water to put in the rice." --Samin Nosrat

"Oh, Tocqueville, you’re the man." -Maira Kalman

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb, is the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company.

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yes i am sure

Ham the Astrochimp, launched into space aboard a Mercury Redstone rocket in 1961, and safely returned to Earth.

Uesama, a hyperrealistic head on legs, promotes Sof’ ice cream.

Ad from 1945.

Football Meat Loaf.

How to make a shrunken head.

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" is famously spoken by Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams. It’s her haunting final line, uttered as she is led away to a mental institution. Now it all makes sense.

By the age of thirty you should have an all-consuming obsession with one era of history. If you haven’t yet developed a fixation on an historical era, one will be assigned to you shortly.

Ray Bradbury; reading for just a few minutes a night can save your life

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A character in one of the Lemony Snicket books says, “Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness,” and I can’t help noticing that many of the most sinister figures in public life are vocal about never reading.

Can't wait.

My Spookie Wookie Ouija Board Girl, 1920.

one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains

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Ancient Greek hedgehog, 600 BCE.

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What I'm listening to tonight.

To Ramsgate I traveled with joy, A seaside escape to enjoy. Ate cockles with glee, Then barfed by the sea— Illness Shakespeare himself would decry!