Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities & Treasures.

Founder & owner of Archie McPhee. Popular culture is not for the faint of heart. Follow @mcpheeceo (c) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

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“Dysentery? Take Dr. Morse’s Magic Pills”; Also said to cure foul breath, female complaints, and worms… by Off-line for a few days, Jim Griffin on Flickr.

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Online ad targeting that is right on.

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American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

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““There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.””

— Flannery O'Connor

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Newt stamps!

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““The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.””

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Susan Sontag

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Dance Ballerina, Dance!

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Lambert Howarth & Sons Ltd,  Burnley. England. 1956

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BOMBS AWAY!

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“I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”

— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via devilduck)

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