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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

thewomaninthemoon: Viktoriya Sasonkina in Stardust, Vogue Italia September 2008, photographed by Steven Meisel.

thewomaninthemoon:

Viktoriya Sasonkina in Stardust, Vogue Italia September 2008, photographed by Steven Meisel.

(Source: une-quaintrelle, via atompunk)

thewomaninthemoon: Viktoriya Sasonkina in Stardust, Vogue Italia September 2008, photographed by Steven Meisel.

thewomaninthemoon:

Viktoriya Sasonkina in Stardust, Vogue Italia September 2008, photographed by Steven Meisel.

(Source: une-quaintrelle, via atompunk)

seesherlock:

goodnight. i leave you with this gem that always helps me slow down and sleep soundly.

paul clayton — spanish ladies

balalaikaboss:

Rolling Down to Old Maui - (trad.) Stan Rogers

Before his untimely death in a 1983 plane crash, Stan Rogers was a bright light in Canadian folk music. Historically aware and musically gifted, he was one of the best acts to emerge from the folk revival of the mid-20th century. 

Arctic Monkeys - From the Ritz to the Rubble

Last night these two bouncers
And one of em’s alright
The other one’s the scary one
His way or no way, totalitarian

He’s got no time for you
Looking or breathing
How he don’t want you to

So step out the queue
He makes examples of you
And there’s nowt you can say
Behind they go through to the bit where you pay
And you realise then that it’s finally the time
To walk back past ten thousand eyes in the line

(Source: ohgodtom)

pablohoney-:

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor

chaboneobaiarroyoallende:

“A NEW ENGLAND” written and performed by BILLY BRAGG (1983)


I was twenty one years when I wrote this song
I’m twenty two now, but I won’t be for long
People ask when will you grow up to be a man
But all the girls I loved at school
Are already pushing prams

I loved you then as I love you still
Tho I put you on a pedestal,
They put you on the pill
I don’t feel bad about letting you go
I just feel sad about letting you know

I don’t want to change the world
I’m not looking for a new England
I’m just looking for another girl
I don’t want to change the world
I’m not looking for a new England
I’m just looking for another girl

I loved the words you wrote to me
But that was bloody yesterday
I can’t survive on what you send
Every time you need a friend

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you’d care

I don’t want to change the world
I’m not looking for a new England
I’m just looking for another girl

questionableadvice: ~ The Middlesex County Directory for the Year Commencing June 1, 1873, (Boston, MA)via Internet Archive“Mrs. Smith, what makes your baby so fat?Why, don’t you know that we always keep Jones’ Ale in the House?”

questionableadvice:

~ The Middlesex County Directory for the Year Commencing June 1, 1873, (Boston, MA)
via Internet Archive

“Mrs. Smith, what makes your baby so fat?
Why, don’t you know that we always keep Jones’ Ale in the House?”

questionableadvice: ~ Beeman’s Pepsin Gum, Photoplay Magazine, 1924

questionableadvice:

~ Beeman’s Pepsin Gum, Photoplay Magazine, 1924

dreigroschenoper: stcelestine: Rotha Lintorn-Orman, 1885-1935 Founder of the first British movement to call itself fascist. She founded the British Fascisti in 1923, inspired by Mussolini’s March on Rome the year before. It was notable for its high percentage of female members, women street patrols, and frequent violent engagements with Communists. It was eventually surpassed by Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1932. Feminism: not ignoring or shunning women whose opinions you detest. Other prominent suffragists that later became Fascists include: Mary Richardson, Norah Elam, and Mary Sophia Allen. Wikipedia entry for British Union of Fascists:Relationship with the Suffragettes In a January 2010 BBC documentary, Mother Was A Blackshirt, James Maw reported on how in 1914 Norah Elam was placed in a Holloway prison cell with Emmeline Pankhurst for her involvement with the Suffragette movement, yet in 1940 she returned to the same prison with Diana Mosley, but this time for her involvement with the fascist movement. Another leading suffragette, Mary Richardson, became head of the women’s section of the BUF. The report described how Elam’s fascist philosophy grew from her suffragette experiences, how the British fascist movement became largely driven by women, how they targeted young women from an early age, how the first British fascist movement was founded by a woman, and how the leading lights of the Suffragettes had, with Oswald Mosley, founded the BUF. Mosley’s electoral strategy had been to prepare for the election after 1935, and in 1936 he announced a list of BUF candidates for that election, with Elam nominated to stand for Northampton. Mosley accompanied Elam to Northampton to introduce her to her electorate at a meeting in the Town Hall. At that meeting Mosley announced that “He was glad indeed to have the opportunity of introducing the first candidate, and it killed for all time the suggestion that National Socialism proposed putting British women back into the home, this is simply not true. Mrs Elam, he went on, had fought in the past for women’s suffrage … and was a great example of the emancipation of women in Britain”.

dreigroschenoper:

stcelestine:

Rotha Lintorn-Orman, 1885-1935

Founder of the first British movement to call itself fascist. She founded the British Fascisti in 1923, inspired by Mussolini’s March on Rome the year before. It was notable for its high percentage of female members, women street patrols, and frequent violent engagements with Communists. It was eventually surpassed by Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1932.

Feminism: not ignoring or shunning women whose opinions you detest.

Other prominent suffragists that later became Fascists include: Mary Richardson, Norah Elam, and Mary Sophia Allen.

Wikipedia entry for British Union of Fascists:

Relationship with the Suffragettes
In a January 2010 BBC documentary, Mother Was A Blackshirt, James Maw reported on how in 1914 Norah Elam was placed in a Holloway prison cell with Emmeline Pankhurst for her involvement with the Suffragette movement, yet in 1940 she returned to the same prison with Diana Mosley, but this time for her involvement with the fascist movement. Another leading suffragette, Mary Richardson, became head of the women’s section of the BUF.
The report described how Elam’s fascist philosophy grew from her suffragette experiences, how the British fascist movement became largely driven by women, how they targeted young women from an early age, how the first British fascist movement was founded by a woman, and how the leading lights of the Suffragettes had, with Oswald Mosley, founded the BUF.
Mosley’s electoral strategy had been to prepare for the election after 1935, and in 1936 he announced a list of BUF candidates for that election, with Elam nominated to stand for Northampton. Mosley accompanied Elam to Northampton to introduce her to her electorate at a meeting in the Town Hall. At that meeting Mosley announced that “He was glad indeed to have the opportunity of introducing the first candidate, and it killed for all time the suggestion that National Socialism proposed putting British women back into the home, this is simply not true. Mrs Elam, he went on, had fought in the past for women’s suffrage … and was a great example of the emancipation of women in Britain”.