The Black Isle

From Bunch of Nerds: Visionary pictures of life in the year 2000, according to chocolate manufacturers in the year 1900.

Arctic vacation:

Balloons:

Submarine:

Walking on water:

Photos taken on August 5 trip to Lotusland in Montecito/Santa Barbara.

Library of the Day:

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See ya later!

Now, about that (so-called) Hipster Grifter…
Roberto Bolaño would SO have loved her!

Plain as an an pan, she fleeced young lambs, crossed state lines, and then she fleeced them some more! She wrote poetry (”I want to give you a handjob with my mouth” to a stranger, on a paper napkin)! She worked fictitious jobs! All this while using her real name! This is pure Savage Detectives, Part Dos: SLC, Greenpoint, Williamsburg.

But wait, there’s more! Her fans are legion, even as the rubbish site urges its supposedly hip, supposedly fun-lovin’, supposedly too-ironic-to-care readers to turn into outraged vigilantes and call in her whereabouts to the SLC police. For shame! Hipsters must die!

And then there’s her now-famous tat, which supposedly says: I LOVE BEARDS, but as one commenter wrote, looks more like I LOVE BURQAS. Priceless.

The only saving grace in all this, the thing that is saving my soul, is that I don’t know her photobucket password…

WPA poster, circa 1938

“This striking photograph was taken in 1930 by Colonel Boles, the first superintendent of Carlsbad Caverns. The photograph was taken during the summer solstice, when a dramatic shaft of sunlight penetrates deep into the cavern for only a few days each year. The figure in the picture is Colonel Boles’ young daughter.”
More at Cavern Arts Project.

US Army Balloon School, Arcadia, Calif.
circa 1917-1919

Oct 9, 2008