Snug as a bug in a rug

 

Well, here I go

I can/can't believe I'm going there

It's coping, that's all it is

Did we

Are we

Diffusing something here?

Was the ratchet about to break?

Did we lose to release steam?

Are we placating to calm the storm?

Was there something known?

FBI had informants at the Insurrection 

that we are now calling a riot

Now top democrats are posing a pardon

letting bygones be bygones

everyone is kissing the ring

what is a baby anyway?

Oh, what is a baby?

I must find out today

What makes Jim Dear and Darling

Act this way

Gift idea

Mycocaine

 

Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum

403 pieces of plastic found inside dead flesh-footed shearwater on Lord Howe Island, Australia
photograph by Justin Gilligan

 

Wish List

 

Follow the Rule of Law

Use SCOTUS Presidential Immunity

Get crazy

Think outside the norm

Do your duty

Protect the country

Unleash the Alien secrets

 

Mood board

 

Shanidar Z 80s cheese

 

Shanidar Z came back from Iraq as hand luggage. When Pomeroy moved from Liverpool to Cambridge in 2018, she drove the Neanderthal down packed in a
suitcase, in a car that also contained the remains of John of Wheathampsted, a 15^th century abbot of St Albans (“I introduced them to eighties cheese on the radio”).

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/shanidarz

Live it up while you can

 The next president will be a convicted rapist

They did nothing while in power

Nothing with the Supreme Court--add more, add younger?  No.

Nothing with the Electoral College--not a damn word.  No.

Nothing with creating more parties or dissolving all parties, something to make things less divisive. None.

No safeguards at all!  Because norms.

Can't even get rid of Daylight Savings time.

Too damn blinded and ridged.  No imagination.

No wiliness in the fight of underhandedness.  

This is me today

My vote/voice doesn't count and only Michigan and Pennsylvania matters

I'm Xing you all out.  I'm Xing out everything.  X you.

I will be free
My daughter will be free

I'm a squirrel on a moldy jack-o-lantern nibbling a walnut
I'm a bird, I'm the sun
I'm the stars, I'm the moon

Go ahead, shatter your pursuit of happiness
You can't catch me

The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way

The antidemocratic politics of having it all

By Brooke Harrington

Yellowing

good luck, take time out and slow down

a bright light for your difficult time

 

Happy Halloween!

 

New Tradition

 Why did it take so long!??!

Do I detect a Georges Melies influence?

Options for greeting trick-or-treaters at my door

Presenting an enormous pumpkin
between gigantic candles

Blindfolded inside a mirror

Hooded, holding a candle,
surrounded by ghouls

Simmering in a pot with my love

halloween spell

 

Ectoplasmic loogie

 

From the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

Ectoplasm

This mysterious collection of images have been discovered within the photographic collections of Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.

 

Reference: TWCMS -H13098-73-11

 

The lantern slides are from a series titled 'Psychic Photography From A New Angle' and feature eerie images of the supposedly paranormal and unknown forces caught on camera.

 

Very little is known of the origins of this collection. The slides were designed to accompany a lecture by a Mr C.P. MacCarthy of 15 Wilkinson Street, Sheffield.

 

Mr MacCarthy produced the images under test conditions in 1934 in front of an invited committee at 76 Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield. He states the intention was to ‘demonstrate under test conditions Fake Psychic Photography’ to this committee.

 

Mr MacCarthy states his three reasons for this demonstration.

 

1.To prove the possibility of Fake under test conditions.

2.To show you cannot be too critical of such phenomena.

3.To indicate the increasing scope for fraud with the probability of genuine spirit photography.

 

Mr MacCarthy further guarantees ‘in the sum of five pounds, payable to any charitable institution, that no collusion exists, or has existed between myself and any other party in connection with this demonstration.’

 

Little is currently known of the Psychic demonstration. Who sat on the invited committee? Who was Mr MacCarthy? Why was he investigating Psychic Photography?

 

Can you help us with this information?

 

(Copyright) We're happy for you to share these digital images within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk

A quaint séance...

...until the ectoplasm spewed up

Madam

 

Spooky movie selection