Cigarette photo

This is what happens when you're on the computer.

Friday night party: Let's Do the Twist

The great Chubby Checker

Painter Ed Terpening

Untitled

 http://www.edterpening.com/

Nuns at play

Brutus the Buckeye

The original Ohio State University mascot.

Truck

Old house

Watercolor

More summer fun

Hot vinyl hits!

Family tree

There's always an odd one.

Farside

Monday morning

The morning after the weekend.  Ugh.

Raphael's Birthday 8-15

HAPPY 56TH BIRTHDAY, RAY!

AND MANY MORE!

Picture taken August 14, 2010
Sunlite Pool Coney Island

Summer fun!

Friday 4:55 —

It's the WEEKEND!

Dovima

1950s fashion supermodel Dovima

American painter Winslow Homer

Winding Line

1874

Snap the Whip

1872

Go-cart go!

It took four police cars and three shocks with a taser to subdue a man who was driving a go-cart down a St. Paul street going approximately 20 miles per hour. Police didn't say why the man refused to stop or why he resisted arrest. He refused to give his name to the police, so now he is locked up as John Doe.

Watercolor of trees

Vermeer

Detail of a painting by Vermeer

Railroad trestle

Lucin Cutoff railroad tresle over Salt Lake. Over 23 miles long in the water, it was the engineering wonder of its time.

from Wikipedia:

"The Lucin Cutoff is a railroad line which included a railroad trestle which crossed the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Built by the Southern Pacific Company between February 1902 and March 1904...By going west across the lake from Ogden, Utah to Lucin, Utah, it cut off 43 miles and avoided sharp curvatures and grades. The trestle was eventually replaced in the late 1950s with a parallel causeway..."

I learned that the causeway is earthen and it divided Salt Lake into two halves — one half is now saltier than the other. So if you want the full Salt Lake experience, go to the northern half. 

Meat grinder 1890

Mom used to make fruitcake with one of these. As a kid I remember trying to turn the handle when the hopper was full of dates and raisins, and I couldn't make it budge. The vice never wanted to stay put, it was always wiggling loose.

Women dancing

Girl picking flowers

H1N1 over

The H1N1 pandemic is officially over. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday declared an end to the flu which killed 18,000 people in 24 countries. 

It started in April 2009 in Mexico, the country hardest hit, and was declared a global pandemic by the WHO two months later in June.

Over 300 million people received the vaccine but supplies were low.

I was not among the vaccinees. I didn't even get a cold last year.

Old barn

All I know about this painting is

that the location is British Columbia.

Coke at Sunset

Only dancing

Woman with lipstick

Artist unknown

Nicolaas van der Waay

Dutch painter
Nicolaas van der Waay 
1855-1936

Fish eyes

1920

Dutch painter August Allebé (1838-1927)

Andy Warhol

Barbie

Word of the day

bathos (n)

a. insincere or excessive pathos;

  insincere or grossly sentimental;

...sentimental to the brink of bathos.

b. a way of expressing something 

(in language or art or music etc.) 

that is characteristic of a particular 

person or group of people or period

 

c. an abrupt, unintended transition in style
from the exalted to the commonplace,
producing a ludicrous effect

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Giant blue mushroom

Lactarius indigo mushroom

Found in a state park near Athens, Ohio.

Thanks, Dean, for passing this along.

Watercolorist Kay Smith

Beach Gate 

Lemonade license

A 7-year-old's lemonade stand was shut down by two health inspectors at a Portland, Oregon arts fair this week. She was cited for vending without a license.

 

They threatened the little girl with a $500 fine, and she left in tears. Other vendors rallied around the girl.

A county official quickly stepped in and apologized to the girl and her mother. He said the rules are meant for professional food service operators. And he had a lemonade stand once.

Churchill's UFOs

The Independent newspaper in London reports that former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a specific UFO sighting by British pilots during WWII to be classified as top secret to avoid panicking the public.

Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander the the allied forces in Europe at the time, were witnessed having a conversation about the UFO report, and that Churchill had a strong reaction to it saying it would "destroy belief in the Church."

According to the account, a Royal Air Force bombing crew was returning from a raid on Germany when they saw an arrow-shaped object hovering above the plane. It was not the first time British pilots reported seeing UFOs during the war.

Social Security poster 1937

Oh no!

It's going to be 95º again today?

Jonathan Winters' paintings

Fiend Without A Face

 Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 British black-and-white science fiction film that tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of an invisible monster that steals human brains and spinal cords. The film was based on an Amelia Reynolds Long short story entitled "The Thought Monster" which was originally published in 1930 in Weird Tales magazine.  (Wikipedia)

^{"New horrors! Mad science spawns evil fiends!" 
"Fiends take form before your horrified eyes!"}

The Dingle Boys

DANGEROUS YOUTH
U.K. 1957

Description: Brutal Liverpool gang leader becomes a rock n roll star then ends up in the Army. The Dingle Boys are a menace to the district! British teen idol Frankie Vaughan sings, "Isn't It a Lovely Evening?" and "These Dangerous Years." Good Liverpool film footage.

Subtext:

"He's got too much hair and too much jive and too many girls who wouldn't stay home!"

"One guy tried to cut him down to size — with a switch blade!"

Pink lemonade

It's going to be close to 100º today

with a heat index of 115º.

This looks good, doesn't it?

Panda

Painting of a ballgame 1959

I know this is a famous artist — maybe it's Norman Rockwell.

It has a great summer feel to it. Lots of action going on, bold use of yellow.

The 2nd on the right doesn't look like he belongs at a ballgame.

The Cliff House

Postcard of The Cliff House
San Francisco, c.1950