Cleveland Mick

[70sscifiart]

Uncredited art for a 1967 Epiphone guitar ad

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Comic by Lynda Barry

[matou-en-peluche]

George Barbier

[thelandedgentry-blog1-deactivat]

BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GENTRY LTD…

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[canwehaveapooldad]

People of Springfield, because of the epidemic, I have canceled my vacation to the Bahamas. I shall not leave the city – Hey, you, get that steel drum out of the, uh, mayor’s office.

[zzzze]

Joni Mitchell - Coyote (The Last Waltz)

[themaninthegreenshirt]

“One size does not fit all.“ Frank Zappa

Sheik Yerbouti [1979] by Lynn Goldsmith

[thelandedgentry-blog1-deactivat]

WE KNOW!   

[npr]

Independence Day is dedicated to patriotism, but celebrated with beer and explosives. So it might not be a shock that every Fourth of July, America sees a massive spike in fireworks injuries — especially among children and young men.

And every year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission engages in a noble, quixotic quest to persuade Americans to set off explosives more responsibly. CPSC does that by blowing up mannequins on the National Mall.

The demonstration emphasizes that fireworks are dangerous. Seriously dangerous. Blast-your-hand-off dangerous. Bottle-rocket-in-the-eye dangerous. Where’d-that-mannequin’s-head-go dangerous.

The point, of course, is not that fireworks should be forbidden. The CPSC is striving to suggest that if you’re using fireworks, you should try to be smart and safe — and not emulate the dummies on the Mall.

Government Blows Up Mannequins In Annual Plea For Fireworks Safety

GIFs: U.S. CPSC

[museum-of-artifacts]

Parchment holes in manuscript repaired using embroidery

[vintage-trailer]

1957 Trail-It houseboat

[vagentleman]

summer vibes / lake vibes

[thekwikemart]

[elhieroglyph]

Majestic Carpet 

[apoemaday]

Insomnia

by Dana Gioia

Now you hear what the house has to say.   Pipes clanking, water running in the dark,   the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,   and voices mounting in an endless drone of small complaints like the sounds of a family   that year by year you’ve learned how to ignore. But now you must listen to the things you own,   all that you’ve worked for these past years,   the murmur of property, of things in disrepair,   the moving parts about to come undone,   and twisting in the sheets remember all the faces you could not bring yourself to love. How many voices have escaped you until now,   the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot,   the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark.   The terrible clarity this moment brings,   the useless insight, the unbroken dark. 

[vintagejapanesebaseball]

Larry Doby - Chinichi Dragons

[sfmoma]

Submission Friday

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Fiat Panda 4x4 Pick-Up and SupaPanda. Fiat only ever made the first generation Panda as a 3-door hatchback. However various coachbuilders and customisers have created their own versions, from the sedate to the extreme

[indophilia]

18th-century block-printed and mordant-dyed tent panels from Rajasthan