What is Genuine Mother-of-Toilet-Seat?

Gibson 1938 fingerboard
Gibson 1938 Headstock or Peghead

Stewart-MacDonald's fancy pearloid - laminated
When I revealed that the second Tickler Ukulele would have a fingerboard made of genuine mother-of-toilet-seat, I realized that some people might not know what that is. It's a plastic that looks like mother of pearl and it's also known as pearloid. On certain vintage models of guitars, banjos and ukes, it was used for pickguards and fingerboards. It was also used to decorate banjo resonators and headstocks. Lou Reimuller (luthier of Tickler Ukes) bought his pearloid at Warmoth where they have all colors and patterns. They also have supplies at Stewart-MacDonald.
Here is a Gibson 1938 from the
National Music Museum Collection
at the University of South Dakota.

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JM's World War One Sketchbooks

I found out about JM's World War I sketchbooks

from the fantastic and beautiful blog, BibliOdyssey . Please follow the link for more of this amazing visual diary (University of Victoria’s Special Collections Library).

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HOBOTOPIA

Laugh Out Loud Cats Comics

Speaking of hokum, hokum music, humor, comics...and cats!
Please check out this wonderful little film at the Ape Lad (Adam Koford) blog:
HOBOTOPIA
And...this giant morsel: Laugh Out Loud Cats ARCHIVE (buy the new book at Hobotopia)
for more wonderful CAT humor. Yas, yas, we love dem cats!
And a most recent and hilarious little film on boingboing TV.
Official Website: Adam Koford (Ape Lad)
And last, but not least, The New Yorker's current EustaceTilley competition with Ape Lad's contributions.


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Hokum Music & Comic Art

Comic book cover by Amy Crehore 1984

The link wasn't working this morning so I deleted my blog post from yesterday. But, it seems to be working now, so here it is again -a link to thumbnails of Yazoo album covers and comic covers mostly by Robert Armstrong and R. Crumb. It's a picture search for Hokum Boy's music. You will see a little thumbnail of "Boys and Girls Grow Up" comic book cover, also, with a little blurb about my Hokum Scorchers band if you mouse over it. (refresh the page if link page doesn't show thumbnails right away)

MUSICTONIC

Here's another link about HOKUM BOYS . Musictonic looks like a very nice website.

Read also wikipedia's article on Hokum .

The Hokum Scorchers (and Lou Reimuller's earlier band,The Fabulous Daturas) did play some Hokum Boy's music. Wikipedia mentions the Hokum Boys in this article. Here's a link to a pre-war hokum-style tune played by the Hokum Scorchers (this one is by Papa Charlie Jackson, however).

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See Saw Blog

Anonymous Photobooth photo from American Photobooth by Nakki Goranin

via the SEE SAW blog.

If this isn't a captivating image, I don't know what is! And it's not even a young, naked chick. It's grannny with her dressed-up little doggie in a photobooth portrait. That's as classic and as sweet as it gets.

"Nakki Goranin's American Photobooth -The Exhibit will be making its world debut in February at Pine Street Art Works to coincide with the publication of Nakki's book, American Photobooth. Forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Co., the book has already been cited in The New Yorker and The New York Times."

Pine Street Art Works

Burlington, Vermont

"Blogging is like a hall of mirrors".

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Intricate Tapestry Designs

Design based on Jan Snellinck the Elder, Michiel Coxie, Netherlands 1652

Hans Kneiper Design Denmark 1585

click to enlarge

The Metropolitan Art Museum recently had a special exhibition of baroque tapestries. Here are two amazingly intricate examples from long ago. To view more of the exhibit click here : Threads of Splendor
Thanks to Marshall Sponder for hiking all over NYC to art galleries and museums to blog about these shows for the rest of us who don't happen to live there :
Art New York City .

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Bloody & Beautiful Vintage Theater Posters from Paris

Grand Guignol means "big puppet show". Here are some posters from the Theatre of Grand Guignol. They are gory, but graphically interesting! "In 1897, the French playwright, Oscar Metenier, bought a theater at the end of the impasse Chaptal, a cul-de-sac in Paris' Pigalle district, in which to produce his controversial naturalist plays." read more history here.

View more posters here:

Grand Guignol Posters

Thanks boingboing via

FURTHER

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