Banjo Gal

One of these days I'm going to add some Hokum Scorcher music to my website. Soon, I hope. Look at my hand in this photo. Funny! I like this little no-name vintage tenor banjo.

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My Beautiful State

This is a picture of me taken shortly after I "ran away" from the east coast to live in Oregon. About age 33, I believe. Happy as a clam on an Oregon beach. There is never anyone on the beach in Oregon. Maybe that is why I like it. Devoid of humans.

I am working on a new website this week.

It has a cleaner look to it now, kind of like this beach:

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It's not all up yet, but it's getting there. Change is good.

Happy 2008!

Toy Club Website - Japan

Thanks again to Internet Weekly for pointing out another great website with vintage advertisements, posters and display figures. Also, many vintage clockwork moving toys and tin toys!

TOYS CLUB

(babelfish)

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Fun at the Maker Faire/Felt Club Event in Los Angeles

Mark Frauenfelder, Jenny Ryan, Ruth Waytz, Kate Flannery, Coop

Look at this happy bunch of people. A bunch of comedians really. (I also met Johnny Ryan and Mark's lovely wife, Carla Sinclair- not shown in photo.) I took this photo at the Maker Faire/Felt Club event at Los Angeles County College last month. I spent a day hanging out there during my trip to L.A. for the GREEN Show. It was a day well spent. Lots of activities going on and hand-crafted items to buy. And did I mention happy people? If Boingboing isn't enough, Mark and Carla are also the editors of Make and Craft magazines. Bubbly Jenny Ryan is founder of the L.A. Felt Club and she is also the wife of amazing cartoonist Johnny Ryan. Talented and sparkly Ruth Waytz is Coop's wife and muse, among other things. Kate Flannery plays Meredith Palmer on the NBC show, The Office. Some people just know how to have fun and encourage others while they are at it.

Felt Club

Maker Faire

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Vintage New Year Postcards

Internet Weekly

always finds the best stuff!

This time it's an archive of wonderful vintage New Year's postcards.

New York Public Library Digital Archive.

Happy New Year!! (Thanks, Internet Weekly)

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Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Taschen Books

I'm back! This beautiful image is from a delightful book that I received for Xmas. (Thanks, Raliegh!) The book is called "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" published by Taschen Books. It's a hefty book of 446 copperplates in color. The illustrations, originally published between 1764 and 1765, are of Albertus Seba's collection of natural specimens. Albertus was an apothecary living in Amsterdam. He was born in 1665 and died in 1736, but before he died he commissioned illustrators to document his collection and the results are nothing short of amazing. Each page of this book is a well-designed, surrealist's dream. Each combines scientific details of nature with the honesty of folk art. I love it. Here's a link to the book:

Taschen

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P.S. I'm working on my regular website right now, so don't be alarmed if pages are missing. It's temporary.

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1967 Dug Up

Above is just a small detail from a cartoon published in The Realist in May 1967 called The Disney Memorial Orgy copyright Paul Krassner, Art by Wally Wood

Curious (mature and not easily offended) viewers should go here to read more:

Mardecortesbaja

and follow the link to the rest of the image. Oh my!

What is that piece of coal doing in your stocking?

Thanks, Lloyd

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