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The Cheney Sentinel, Kansas, May 29, 1913
I would love to see this apparently regular newspaper factoid feature revived.
I would love to see this apparently regular newspaper factoid feature revived.
ardgedee
Coulda sworn there was a Tumblr or Blogger account dedicated to the topic, because there was a period in the late '00s when these were frequently circulating.
@ardgedee https://www.tumblr.com/yesterda...
@karmakaze ❤️
Meanwhile in The New York Times editorial room
One dollar
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A long-exposure color photograph, showing a man (in shirt, tie, black hat, and gray pants) sitting in the middle of three shiny upholstered chairs on top of a set of stands where his feet are propped, while a ghostly blurred figure works on his shoes.
source: https://harpers.org/archive...
"With this early daguerreotype in mind, I traveled across New York City and asked people of different professions how long it takes them to earn one dollar. I then used their responses to calculate the exposure time for their respective portraits."
A dollar's worth of time from the lives of a sex worker, a pastor, a city council member, a butcher, a union organizer, a dry cleaner, and more, at the link. #photography
"With this early daguerreotype in mind, I traveled across New York City and asked people of different professions how long it takes them to earn one dollar. I then used their responses to calculate the exposure time for their respective portraits."
A dollar's worth of time from the lives of a sex worker, a pastor, a city council member, a butcher, a union organizer, a dry cleaner, and more, at the link. #photography
Shumway Devouring His Kitten
FINALLY, a guide for the rest of us
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a fake product by creator obviousplant, in this instance a thin volume that is titled "every jazz sound". below that, an image of a balding man with his eyes half closed, playing a trumpet, with the adjacent text column: "featuring: TOOT, SQUEE, BOP, WHAH WHAH, TOOT TOOT, FLUTE VIBRATO, BOOM BIP, TOOT TOOP, BASS, SNARE, KICK, RIM SHOT, SQUONK, ...AND MORE". below that, an inset of a fedora that reads "inlcudes *fedora rustle*" and a cartoon crab playing a fedora with the footer "a jazz crabs hearing aid"
via obviousplant on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p...
https://www.instagram.com/p...
Currently scatting
Forgetting the triple tongued “takkita takkita takkita”
Computer, give me a hat wobble
No more dinosaur juice
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Still living under the city windmill I see.
(fellow Lauwerecht inhabitant here)
(fellow Lauwerecht inhabitant here)
Nice! I can’t go back to gas cars. I even bought an electric riding lawnmower mower so great.
tuesday
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people dancing in McDonalds
Mac and Me!
https://youtu.be/NdvO0tmN...
(and yes, this is the same dreadful movie Paul Rudd used in every movie interview with Conan)
https://youtu.be/NdvO0tmN...
(and yes, this is the same dreadful movie Paul Rudd used in every movie interview with Conan)
@BennyTheIcepick Certainly one of the greatest pieces of comedy ever conceived.
Yes, I love the Rudd/Conan bit, but not enough to watch the movie.
One interesting thing about this clip and the whole number was that it was so branded to McDonalds. This was a blatant E.T. knock off. In E.T. they wanted to use M&Ms as a lure for E.T. but the corporation refused. Reece's Pieces was right on with it, and as a result became hugely successful. So, Mac And Me got McDonald's 100%.
One interesting thing about this clip and the whole number was that it was so branded to McDonalds. This was a blatant E.T. knock off. In E.T. they wanted to use M&Ms as a lure for E.T. but the corporation refused. Reece's Pieces was right on with it, and as a result became hugely successful. So, Mac And Me got McDonald's 100%.
linkedin bio
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gravestone reading "POET PHILOSPOHER & FAILURE"
No Babe This Is The Fruit Party, The Cheese Party's Next Door
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Promo shot for the Red Castle Motel Hotel here in Perth. 1984
I am diggin that robe
I am diggin that robe
check the lease, baby, you're living in fruit plate city
That overhead detail with the blackout drapes! Nice space!
INTERIOR - JJ ARCHITECTS - 1968 - SUBURBAN CINCINNATI
Two actors. Greg, the lead architect is across the table from Ricky, the client.
Greg, takes a long drag from his cigarette. He pauses in contemplation. Camera slowly pans down to reveal an overflowing ashtray with 7 butts. Greg's hand comes into frame and smashes the 8th one in.
CUT TO:
CLOSEUP - GREG'S FACE
GREG has a puzzled, almost pained look on his face.
CUT TO:
CEILING
Camera pauses on the glare of an fluorescent overhead light. An audible buzz increases in volume.
CUT TO:
CLOSEUP - RICKY'S FACE
RICKY:
"and...yes...I think that's it!"
CUT TO:
CLOSEUP - GREG'S FACE
GREG let's out a long sigh.
Pauses.
Squints.
GREG:
"Wait...you want the what located where?"
Two actors. Greg, the lead architect is across the table from Ricky, the client.
Greg, takes a long drag from his cigarette. He pauses in contemplation. Camera slowly pans down to reveal an overflowing ashtray with 7 butts. Greg's hand comes into frame and smashes the 8th one in.
CUT TO:
CLOSEUP - GREG'S FACE
GREG has a puzzled, almost pained look on his face.
CUT TO:
CEILING
Camera pauses on the glare of an fluorescent overhead light. An audible buzz increases in volume.
CUT TO:
CLOSEUP - RICKY'S FACE
RICKY:
"and...yes...I think that's it!"
CUT TO:
CLOSEUP - GREG'S FACE
GREG let's out a long sigh.
Pauses.
Squints.
GREG:
"Wait...you want the what located where?"
local user account for the win
I promise you will not regret looking at this ant
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A matte black ant that has a very flat body with gothic details. It's like a series of black plates and spikes. The eyes are on the side of the head as it rests on a leaf. Photo from iNaturalist by melvynyeo
Gorgeous!
▶️ "Careful" | Boy Harsher
Will Santino
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I most definitely have already posted this to my personal SHK but I couldn't find it so I'm reposting it directly here since it's one of my favs
<sensible chuckle>
The Far Side 1986 Gary Larson interview on 20/20
Coiffure Octopus
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Newspaper illustration of an octopus hairdo. “Mr. Punch’s Designs After Nature. Great Sensation for the Aquarium - _Coiffure Octopus_
Squid hat _avant la lettre_. @nikkuneko @cristin
@bezt well, i'm only calling it a "coiffure octopus" from now on
Related: https://mltshp.com/p/1GPS9
*cringe emoji*
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The logo for Boski's Market, which features a steaming cup with the letters BM on it.
I drove by a store in Worcester MA today with accidentally the worst logo. Found the logo online. 😬
Back on the Beat
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The rookie here just completed her vaccinations and went down to the beach with me for the first time.
Early apprehensions was overcome when she reverted to her current teeth-forward approach to life and discovered that the beach is covered in stuff like kelp and seaweed that can be chewed on and torn apart.
Early apprehensions was overcome when she reverted to her current teeth-forward approach to life and discovered that the beach is covered in stuff like kelp and seaweed that can be chewed on and torn apart.
Yay puppy!
first team meeting
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Comic panel, a bespectacled older gentleman opens the door to you revealing a roomful of male clowns in pleated skirts with pompoms, found red noses and bald caps sprouting orange-tufted hair. He says, “ COME IN, GENTLEMEN.
WEVE BEEN
EXPECTING YOU.!!
DO STEP
INSIDE AND INTRODUCE YOURSELVES.” while the clowns all shriek, “ WELCOME! WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME!”
WEVE BEEN
EXPECTING YOU.!!
DO STEP
INSIDE AND INTRODUCE YOURSELVES.” while the clowns all shriek, “ WELCOME! WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME!”
Moebius
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A color illustration by Moebius.
That's just glorious.
At this point I'm convinced Björn has access to another dimension where Moebius is still alive, churning out masterpieces on the daily. I hope this isn't causing some slow rupture in the space-time continuum. OTOH, might be worth it.
@gwint Haha, I think I'm just lucky he was an incredibly prolific artist (or maybe that's just my cover story)
Back on that grind, 30 years later
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Animation of a middle aged man riding a skateboard in a suburban parking lot. He is not moving all that fast.
I haven't skated, really, since I was 17. Last month I picked up my kid's unused longboard and have started relearning how. It is great. (Two years of weekly yoga practice has improved my balance significantly, that has made it a lot more fun.)
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
Yes!
You know if you keep circling the camera like that …
Picking up your skateboard again is rad as hell.
Double Arrow Lookout
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L-4 style forest service fire lookout (14x14) on a 20 foot tower. Rough, rocky ground in the foreground, with shorter evergreen trees in the near distance. The sky has moody storm clouds that brought more than an inch of rain in the last 24 hours.
Double Arrow Lookout on the Lolo National Forest near Seeley Lake, MT. This is my first of four for lookouts I have rented for the summer. You can drive right up to this one vs having to hike in, although the road is pretty dodgy. I'm still sick, so climbing up 34 stairs felt like A LOT. Turns out I have bronchitis that's maybe getting better now, maybe not? Anyhow, it was a pretty cool deal being up on a mountain top.
Oh hahahaha ! . . . one summer in my early twenties some friends and I went on a "lookout road trip" and at the time I was desperately in love with someone who barely knew I existed so in heartsick despondence I buried a certain R.E.M. lyric on a scrap of waterproof paper under fire lookouts all over the North American west as one of those things you do when you're that age I guess. This was one of the 1st ones we visited - because of Norman Maclean, natch - so somewhere in the ground in the photo there must be the mouldering remains of said lyric (if it even still exists). Oh Youth ahahahaha!
@williwaw 🖤😢
@MackReed aw thanks but the humor at the Pretentiousness of Youth is the core memory here - as well as getting to see some cool lookouts! It's neat other people get to see them too like in this here post!
*sniff*
into the comments like
Robert Picardo & Jack Lemmon
Some flowers
Damien! Damien! Sequel! Sequel!
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Don’t Go Near the Elevator! Aaaaaaah!🎶
I did an upper decker for you, Damien!
@dad Hehehehehe
t’was ever thus
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Cover of MAD Magazine, April 1971, showing a sign on the White House fence reading, “THIS COUNTRY IS OUT OF ORDER”
I have this issue. We had a subscription to Mad at the time. In the Netherlands. I devoured them, event though at eight years old my English was bit rudimentary.
@waa Shouldn't you be up a ladder somewhere? Painting like there's no tomorrow?
And while we're on the subject, those updates you promised?
Just Kidding! Work as the muse takes you.
are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet :-)
And while we're on the subject, those updates you promised?
Just Kidding! Work as the muse takes you.
are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet :-)
@waa MAD got me through puberty 😁
REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT (Official HD version, uploaded May 2026)
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2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film finally uploaded in glorious HD via Don Hertzfeldt's channel
as one YouTube commenter put it:
// This belongs in the Criterion Collection of Early Internet //
as one YouTube commenter put it:
// This belongs in the Criterion Collection of Early Internet //
I was just thinking this morning how my child is finally old enough to properly appreciate this.
@twelvebit unc stuff
I can now see where asdfmovie got 100% of their shtick from.
If these really were pitched to companies, they're up there with great Fuck-Offs of history such as Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Session and Ween's pizza ad.
If these really were pitched to companies, they're up there with great Fuck-Offs of history such as Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Session and Ween's pizza ad.
Hollyrood Palace abbey decoration
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Strange stone face with peeled nose
Pixel 8
This isn't my nose, it's a fake nose. They made me wear it.
Tycho Brahe?
yehan wang
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Painting of red leaves trees reflected in a distant pond. Color from the leaves and lines from the branches stream towards the viewer along perspective lines emanating from the horizon.
Reminds me of the trees in Manifold Garden:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden