management

Yesterday Ann o'Dyne sent me to Scott's Abode where there are great scans from the wonderful Newnes Home Management on display.

I have these treasured volumes in my collection, and they (and a couple of other examples of the genre) formed the basis of a play I wrote years ago.

Coincidentally, there was a scene involving a concrete garden stork...
 

ornamental

Yes (as mentioned in a comment*) I had half-thought of compiling a gallery of dogs in online real estate ads And this morning as I was idly browsing, I saw this fellow hiding in the corner of a view of the garden.

I'm very fond of this species, and was lucky enough to acquire one of my own about 20 years ago.
 

moving pictures

Moving Pictures at Square America
A jittery, flickering, Frankensteinian attempt to bring old photos back to life

via PCL Linkdump
 

decor

Meeting room with ... one wall of an abstract mural...

Bar room...with Boussac persimmon and olive striped curtains and furniture

Television room

Warren T. Harding and David C. Lorimer collection of interior design
 

dog's life

peacay sent me to Topinambours

and shortly after, I found myself looking at poochie
 

themes

A recent comment here by Ann o'Dyne on Twitter:

I am irritated by constant Follow requests from people I dont know*

made me think of the Blossom Dearie song I'm Shadowing you...


And maybe the Beatles wrote a song for the Bloggers,
the early Thinking of Linking which you can hear in this Jam session from the Anthology era.

And not a song but an instructional film: Facebook Manners
via the Presurfer
 

binding

things on twitter:

There are networks, albeit very informal ones, that exist within this quasi-public realm, a secondary strata of commentary and connections that binds together those who place most emphasis on the binding, if you see what we mean. In other words, twitter and its ilk have become a self-perpetuating network that somehow pulls content out of perpetual distraction.

magnetic

twitter magnets
inspired by magnetic poetry® and twitter

via ample sanity
 

supreme court

NY Times. And the Pursuit of Happiness May It Please the Court

via daily jive
 

tools

Let me google that for you
via As above

instant rimshot
 

dickens

And if I twittered I could link to this little old blog in style.


DickensURL via the Presurfer
Forget tinyurl.com, now you have dickensurl.com!

 

iconic

if I twittered I might tweet:

Got Mixmaster. T did. Man knocked $10 off as I raved about beauty n nostalgia.Yet to bake sponge.

ps. fx I know where you can get those oranges cheap.
 

pooter

Hey there! pooter2009 is using Twitter.

For this year's reboot of diaryofanobody.net, I've given Charles Pooter a Twitter feed.
As Above
 

fri dawgs

was idly browsing bluey youtube
and found a film with a blue heeler song

by Mary Ann Kennedy
Grammy nominated hit songwriter from Nashville, TN., Mary Ann Kennedy, creates music that celebrates the horse

- who also has a song about a jack.


(though wwwhere is the labra♪or mon amour j'adore ballad I wonder...)
 

live better

deep hood covers all curlers

15 Vintage Household Ads

via The Presurfer
 

glamour

One of the items at the exhibition* was a postcard of this hotel in Phillip Island

I used to think this hotel was the last word in glamour when I was six.




This was a glamourous place too...
 

holiday

Caught up with the SLV exhibition Victorians on Vacation
at Mornington, which was a great place to see it, being on vacation (sic)*
There were two other people in the gallery in the two hours it took me to process all the data. Afterwards, we studied the local dogs running freely in a fenced paddock outside the gallery. Everything becomes fauna en vacance.


* Shame they traded americanism for alliteration.
They coulda gone with eg. oz on oliday
 

beach

Off to the beach for a week.
 

danger

danger

While browsing Bacchus Marsh pics (as you do) I chanced upon an image from childhood that has since disappeared - one of the Danger signs that used to grace intersections in Melbourne. There used to be one along the late 60s valiant trek from the foothills to Preston, though who knows where it was exactly in those 20 scary miles of melways.

But I'm not old enough to remember the clocks
 

tremor

Residents from the CBD to Dromana felt the tremor, with one Elwood local falling off the couch.

Herald Sun (since updated, but posted here)