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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.

amusicalconfessional:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Lyrics:

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

(Source: youtube.com)

chorusculture:

Track| Road to Nowhere
Artist| Talking Heads
Album| Little Creatures

There’s a city in my mind / Come along and take that ride

Play On.

onirinauta:

Talking Heads: Psycho killer (live)

(Source: )

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

(Source: fu2re)

honeyed asked: I like your taste in music.

I am glad. Another Talking Heads fan

scribbleddownname: ch1nglish: and the days go byyyy Comic by Evan Dorkin (his Tumblr seems to have been deleted, alas, but you can still find him on LJ.)

scribbleddownname:

ch1nglish:

and the days go byyyy

Comic by Evan Dorkin (his Tumblr seems to have been deleted, alas, but you can still find him on LJ.)

libbylibbylove:

now playing

Talking Heads - “Once In A Lifetime” (by ealdrett)

ch1nglish: and the days go byyyy

ch1nglish:

and the days go byyyy

(via turner-d-century)

vcrfl: Hans Memling: Portrait of Tommaso Portinari, 1470. Tommaso Portinari (1424?-1501) was an Italian banker for the Mèdici bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante’s muse, Beatrice. His father was a Medici branch manager, and after his death in 1421, Tommaso and his orphaned brothers were taken in and raised in the household of Còsimo de’ Mèdici.[1] Today he is mainly remembered for two significant commissions of Early Netherlandish paintings.

vcrfl:

Hans Memling: Portrait of Tommaso Portinari, 1470.

Tommaso Portinari (1424?-1501) was an Italian banker for the Mèdici bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante’s muse, Beatrice. His father was a Medici branch manager, and after his death in 1421, Tommaso and his orphaned brothers were taken in and raised in the household of Còsimo de’ Mèdici.[1] Today he is mainly remembered for two significant commissions of Early Netherlandish paintings.

questionableadvice: ~ Facts for the People, Things Worth Knowing: A Book of Receipts, in which Every Thing is of Practical Use to Every Body, 1850 No one likes a knave.

questionableadvice:

~ Facts for the People, Things Worth Knowing: A Book of Receipts, in which Every Thing is of Practical Use to Every Body, 1850

No one likes a knave.