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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.

questionableadvice: ~ The Young Man’s Guide, by William Alcott, 1846caprice: a tendency to change one’s mind without apparent or adequate motive (dictionary.com)

questionableadvice:

~ The Young Man’s Guide, by William Alcott, 1846



caprice: a tendency to change one’s mind without apparent or adequate motive (dictionary.com)

thisveryirregularhead: I ask myself the same thing, Maggie.

thisveryirregularhead:

I ask myself the same thing, Maggie.

(Source: speakslow-tellmelove)

collections-from-vogue: Jessica Stam in “Stam x Saks” Photographed by Max Abadian and styled by Keegan Singh for Saks Fifth Avenue

collections-from-vogue:

Jessica Stam in “Stam x Saks” Photographed by Max Abadian and styled by Keegan Singh for Saks Fifth Avenue

my-ear-trumpet:

The Idiot by Stan Rogers

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A meeting of Enlightened Minds

Sometime in the early 1970s, two Buddhist masters met in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of them, Kalu Rinpoche, was a renowned Tibetan meditation master who had spent many years in solitary retreat in the remote mountain caves of Tibet. The other was Seung Sahn, a Korean Zen master who had recently come to the United States and was supporting himself by working in a Providence, Rhode Island, Laudromat, slowly planting the seeds of Zen in the minds of those coming to wash their clothes. At this now famous meeting of enlightened minds, Seung Sahn held up an orange and, in classic Zen dharma combat fashion, demanded, “what is this?”

Kalu Rinpoche just looked at him, wonderingly,

Again Master Seung Sahn asked, “What is this?”

Finally, Rinpoche turned to his translator and asked, “Don’t they have oranges in Korea?”

From Joseph Goldstein’s One Dharma. p. 1.

mothgirlwings: Dapper doggies in chapeaux with smoking implements - 1930

mothgirlwings:

Dapper doggies in chapeaux with smoking implements - 1930

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moniledebeaute: Doris Lloyd by Alfred Cheney Johnston [from the 1917 Follies shoot that marks Johnston’s emergence as a professional performing arts photographer with a credit. ] Courtesy of Historical Ziegfeld.

moniledebeaute:

Doris Lloyd by Alfred Cheney Johnston [from the 1917 Follies shoot that marks Johnston’s emergence as a professional performing arts photographer with a credit. ] Courtesy of Historical Ziegfeld.

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zengiraffe: ILL-FATED AKRON:    Emerging from its hangar is “America’s only airship.” Designed by Melvin Vaniman, lift was provided by hydrogen, propulsion by gasoline engine. On July 12 the airship was destroyed in flight when the hydrogen exploded. 

zengiraffe:

ILL-FATED AKRON: 

 

Emerging from its hangar is “America’s only airship.” Designed by Melvin Vaniman, lift was provided by hydrogen, propulsion by gasoline engine. On July 12 the airship was destroyed in flight when the hydrogen exploded. 

rilenious: Graf Zeppelin

rilenious:

Graf Zeppelin

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9/17/11 Free For All Saturday #2

“If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?” by Mental As Anything

In 1976, a group of visual art students in Sydney, Australia, decided to form a band for fun. This band was Mental As Anything. They started off just for a fun side project, and since have developed into a strong band that has lasted for over 30 years now. They create some very interesting songs at times, and I am occasionally reminded of the sounds of Oingo Boingo (though still not quite as wacky) when listening to them. This song comes off of their 2005 album, “Plucked”. They have a lot of releases, as you can imagine (almost 33 years worth of them). So I recommend doing what I did, and checking out their 2009 compilation album, “Essential As Anything”.