crystal dream

Fri night's dream: I was offered a pile of books including a Girls' Crystal Annual 1946.
I don't have this one in my collection, I said, excitedly.



The dark side of the dream was that this offer was then retracted.
 

footbowl

Ramage directed me to Hanuman, and this post on the Chinese–Australian Historical Images in Australia Database.

And this photo.

(It's a timely image on Brownlow night, as the dull countdown tolls in the background, and with Test cricket looming too early on the horizon. This near merging of the seasons is unseasonal)
 

entertaining

Don't do this
 

musicians

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

(farewell swapatorium)



garage band: unfamous musicians in everyday places

teen knits from letslookupandsmile

guitar hero from superbomba
 

sunny day

Has the large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

via Dr Fish @ LP


Nah - Melbourne is too perfect today for the end of the world, to misquote the misattributed


what to wear

 

oz modernism

City of Sound: A collaborative map of modernism in Australia

via things
 

dominion

animal politics

Palin Shows No Love for Baby Wolves Huffington

From “Dominion” to Domination: The Duplicity and Complicity of Matthew Scully

Amazon Customer Reviews: Dominion via Animal Person
 

by seagirt

Harry Nilsson on The Ghost & Mrs. Muir - March 29, 1969


He appeared in the episode "The Music Maker", and his character name was Tim Seagirt. wiki
 

veep

Foxy Lady To Guard Henhouse? Say NO
Palin’s record on issues related to energy and the environment



Prodem at Zazzle


Aerial Wolf Gunning 101
 

gardeners

ABV 2 Cooks and gardeners

vale
 

powerful

Powerful Powerful Owl
- with brushtail possum

According to Dr Raylene Cooke from Deakin University, Powerful Owls eat an astounding 250 to 350 possums a year. Dr Cooke analysed 2500 owl pellets to determine this fact. scribbly gum

umbrellas

 

old news

via Genevieve

NLA Australian Newspapers beta Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954

Yesterday I immersed myself in The Argus, September 1945, but only scratched the surface.

Raw POW accounts, missing airmen and ads for tennis racket restrings
Civilians who died in the first days of Peace and the scarcity of lemons
Flat or House required by quiet Protestant
atomsite


(I'd need days, weeks, with this wonderful resource- and that's just the Argus)
 

miss beanie

Inspired by many others, I tried to create a manga avatar a few times, but it wasn't until I spied a beanie (on the ♂ menu) that I managed it. So it's a bit mix-and-match but there you go.



This is my preferred headwear in a Melbourne winter, although it could be tartan. Also, add about 25 years of course.
 

an update - non-shopped from the ♀ menu, but alas, still with head-wear in lieu of comprehensive fringe options. (Although it is around this time of the year that I swap my purple beanie for purple TAC cap when walking canines, that much is true.)
 

post modern

These cakes remind me of this tattoo


Cake Wrecks via Making Light
 

whiff

boynton has fielded many queries today re table tennis or


whiff




whaff


See also ping pong


thanks Boris*
"Ping pong was invented on the dining tables of England and it was called whiff whaff".

soft drink

Dispensing Machine




  
Country Cordial Manufacturers' Conference

  
slightly less cordial
 

informal

Informal portrait
 

dog chair

Dog Chair via grow-a-brain

Horse table via bifurcated rivets
 

art v sport

on the way to pub trivia
which is neither sport nor art
we heard dweeb on sportsradio attacking cricket critic
on article on art and sport,
the mindlessness of sport
(and abstract ballet)
the transcendence of art.
Dweeb took issue with this because
melbourne is the only place where you go to the football
and then the (classical) ballet

when really we all know
this is one of those issues that could be settled
by a debate between say macrob girls and xavier.