Wednesday, April 20, 2011

SOME SOGLOWS

A Chicago Public Library adventure yielded some stuff:

(Illustrations from Excuse it, Please! by Cornelia Otis Skinner. Published 1936 by Dodd, Mead & Co.)




Sunday, April 10, 2011

PUSHOVER

THE MAN WHO COULDN'T CRY

Napalmed babies or the movie Love Story
For instance could not produce tears.

VACUUM (PLUS TRIVIA)


There are three officially recognized words in the English language with the letter combination of uu:

01. Vacuum
02. Continuum
03. Muumuu

Friday, April 8, 2011

THE AURORA HOUSE

PIZZA VS. DEPRESSION

"If you're so depressed, how come you're eating pizza?"

- Corey Haim, Lucas

ANTHROPOLOGY

Masques Primitifs is a neat book I found at the Newberry Library Book Fair several years back for $2. It contains about 30 or so pictures of ancient masks from around the world. Written and photographed by I.L. Schneider, published in 1951.


These are some good ones, (unfortunately they are not dated):

 
(Ivory Coast)

(Haida People - Pacific Northwest/ Alaska)

 (Peninsula of the Gazelle, Papua New Guinea)