stuff of blogs

This passage from Link is the kind of writing that makes me still love blogs for blogs' sake after all these link+tag years:

Just a lump of metal, and I'm reminded of this strange attachment to things and how when I was five or six and I lost a hair ribbon out the car window and noticed that I felt sad, but knew that it was a trivial thing, but something of me had blown away into the slipstream, a part of me was sailing away lost forever--a ribbon, a regulation blue school hair ribbon, but it was mine, possibly had a hair or two entangled in it and therefore carried on the breeze all the genetic information anyone would ever need to make another me, although I didn't know that at the time, I just knew that it made me feel sad but suspected it was silly and so I should shut up about it, until now. stuff of life

I loved the scan of The Head Office from Laputan Logic and was pleased to see it in a riveting collection of Industrial Anatomy assembled by Bib

and Exclamation Mark has a new blog: Site for Sore Eyes (via I like)
 

stock clearance

Some sort of vigorous stock clearance in progress in Shop, Bondi Junction

Was it to make way for the westerns?



I wonder what stock was corralled for Hopalong

(And if you see it in sequence, the plot thickens...)
 

plants

Spam Plants via the nonist

Nature's Call: Flower Urinals via daily jive
 

fab times

40th anniversary of Revolver at Making Light

What Flying Was Like In The 1960's via cynical-c
 

bol-

There were many moments when I felt I was watching The Benny Hill Show. I was dismayed by the line by the lead character, "Do you mind not farting while I'm trying to save the world" which was surplus to requirements and just lowered the tone further. There was a continual use of "farting" long after the joke had been made.

Complaint against the 2005 series of Dr Who
Complaint 3 - bad/sexual language, toliet humour

see also:

12. Oh, Bol-
I think it is reasonable to assume that this was an implied "oh, bollocks", cut short.

via bifurcated rivets

faq

Why won't a purple magazine reflect the inherent festival?

was my favourite random sentence in the first batch.
(via twists and turns)

magic

I agree with dirty beloved

fondue slide

Charles Phoenix Fondue Party, Los Angeles, 1968
via grow a brain

Fondue pot 1970 among its contemporaries.
(You have to go back to the 60's for the Lava Lamp which also appears in the Slide above.)


Better Homes and Gardens Fondue Cookbook

weddings

wedding announcements

via wind, sand and stars

plot 7

Plot 7, Wheat

Potato experiments etc

go ogle

Meggan Gould: Go Ogle

The images in the Go ogle series are composite images, mathematical averages of the first 100 images retrieved from a Google search engine query for a specific word or phrase. Each downloaded image relinquished its size, shape, and the clarity of its individual pixels in its merger with the other results from the query. The results, a visualization of intersections between Boolean logic and the popular imagination, are more often than not a hopeless jumble of unidentifiable pixels--but occasionally a recognizable form does emerge

via PCL

unfashionably

Gmail informed me that the word of the day was bon ton

bon ton \bahn-TAHN\, noun:
1. Fashionable or elegant manner or style.
2. The proper or fashionable thing to do.
3. Fashionable society; a fashionable social set.

Missed it by that much. (By Y and 24 hours. In Aust EST it was out-of-date already)

But then I missed it the first time round too.

alt movies

podcasts of director's audio commentary at the cinema via Rebecca Blood

Sync movies via the Ultimate insult

Now you can experience "The Dark Side Of Oz" like never before, with an all new Digitally Mastered Picture and Dolby Digital 5.1Surround Sound!

telephone books

Pages badly warped, spine dented, torn paper adhering to front cover
1967 Melbourne Telephone Book

Thumbnail Photos of Australia Telephone Directories
Photos of Telephone Books via Plep

For me, one of the best features of my collection was that it was a good ice-breaker. When a conversation lagged, I could say, "I collect telephone books," and it was usually good for at least a few minutes' chat. People might go away saying "What a weirdo", but the awkward moment had been dealt with.
Collecting Telephone Books

via the links: Telephone Directory Information Pages for more Vic pics.

get this

Yesterday in a dull moment I found myself checking the word affords, and was taken to a dictionary page with this offering:



I would if I could.

I then spent some free time customising T-shirts with other commonly misspelt or misshapen words.

you cities

If:Book You Cities - “a short animated riff on Joyce’s Ulysses”
by Alex Itin

(The text from Finnegans Wake can be read - with Joyce - here.)

x-posted @ Sarsaparilla

lenses

It was the Sunglasses model that caught my eye in this collection of Novelty Transistor Radios via Incoming Signals
 

But seeing that my sunnnies usually end up looking like this:



I think my lenses would impair my senses.
 

before

The Night Before Cookbook


Link path 1957 Home Meal Planner (Set) via PCL

one percent

I was gratified to read this endorsement from anonreader:

I just wish that 1% of the interent community understood this topic as well as you did. Thankyou!

(Not sure if he is referring to my understanding of toy pianos or ballistics)

watches

from Vic Braden's Tennis For the Future Little, Brown 1977

When Vic Braden's Tennis for the Future first hit bookstores more than twenty years ago, it was hailed as the Wimbledon of tennis books.*


the wild and unnecessary follow through