Square image showing a young golden retriever happily munching on a chew toy while stretched out on a rug in the top-right of the image. Below, in the center of our shot [& closer to the viewer] , a white geriatric boxer (whose former black-&-brown eye markings have almost completely faded to gray) stands, originally facing the younger fur-child. She's turned her gaze, though, and is staring into your soul with fierce side-eye. Why? Her sister is chewing on HER chosen toy. In the lower-right-corner of the image rests a pet-bed upon which have been heaped nearly A DOZEN other chew toys.

My furNieces' new album, "Never Fed Enough," drops next month...

BBCWorldNews screenshot from a 19.Sept.2019 article by Adam Schrader, originally titled "Eva Braun's used panties sold at auction." Article is accompanied by a pair of ladies' light slik underpants.

Roses are red,
Brown sauce a decoction;

May I suggest the "'reginos' outage"

Bearded bloated guy stares at camera with hair just let down. He's wearing a pink-&-orange-plaid-shirt, & gripping a vape-pen of unknown issue between his lips.

...oh yeah--also, it's been 420 [plus 2,000] days since my last haircut...

Two small sheets of scrap paper indicate mowing for lawns at "OLD HOUSE" & "NEW HOUSE," with directions indicating how cut would be observed visually with arrows [up & down, side-to-side, or crossed]. Old house racked-up eight mowings last yr [each taking just over 2 hrs, allowing for mower to cool]; new house got eightEEN [3 hrs each, w/cool--much larger yard].

Looking over my mowing log from last yr to see how much time elapsed between 1st & 2nd mowings [as I had to do Mom & Dad's "NEW" lawn already ladt Wednesday]--only to realize I didn't date each page until the 3rd time around...

Duplo Commercial - 1994 YouTube video by The Tape Keeper

I've ALWAYS thought this anyway, whenever I heard his name...the old jingle goes thru my head, too: youtu.be/T5cPnQwTiZE?...

EuroJesus (though with brown eyes, thankfully, instead of Warner Sallman's blue-eyed-variant) in a maroon beatnik-turtleneck, with a slightly-foreshortened-chin to compensate for a beard added over a non-bearded-sitter; illuminated in blue against a black background in this head-&-shoulders-portrait done in 1959. There's something unsettling about the overall appearance; & since it unsettles me for an unknown reason, I'm sharing it slightly further in hopes that someone else can better articulate that unease.

I find AI-Jesus particularly unsettling, & I grew up with innumerable unsettling Christ depictions--including this oil-on-canvas-rendition by a family member, ca. 1959 (which is plus/minus-the-Warner-Sallman-outstretched-arms-EuroJesus-version seen in most evangelicals' grandparents' sitting rooms)

...by that, OF COURSE I mean just in case it's nice enough outside to play music for the family-Egg-Hunt tomorrow...

Nestled in the brown paper envelope of a record album for 12-inch-78-rpm-records, the silver-&-blue Silvertone label peeks out thru the sleeve-window (also showing the clear red acetate of the record itself), for Silvertone Record Club Nr. 54A - Hallelujah Chorus [G.F.Händel, "the Messiah"] as performed by the Silvertone Chorus & Orchestra conducted by WGN [Chicago] musical director Henry Weber.

Checking on some music--just in case...

Day late on this one...sorry, all...

BBCWorldNews screenshot from a 19.Sept.2019 article by Adam Schrader, originally titled "Eva Braun's used panties sold at auction." Article is accompanied by a pair of ladies' light slik underpants.

Roses are red,
Brown sauce a decoction;

Bow-to-bow-comparison of 1920 South Bend Watch (left) & 1922 South Bend Watch (right), both 12Size Grade411s; only the Sacred Heart version's been carried 1500% more than the white lead dial variant.

The timekeeping stem has seen an ASS-TON of wear; here's what it originally looked like on a 1922 version of a similar case (that's only been carried a month or so, overall)

This was taken, by the way, when Ektachrome was still $10.99 a 120 roll (before the first wave of gouge-pricing)

Blonde lady in long green sweater, leopard-print-pants, & a white angora cowboy hat gestures at a white-&-brendel-pittie-mix at the shore of Lake Michigan, with grass-capped-dune-hills undulating toward the blue shore.

She always knew the expensive film [Nalah sniffing a large piece of driftwood instead of looking at the camera]; taken Thurs.26.Dec./'19. on Kodak Ektachrome100 with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard (6RF621, uncoated Zeiss Tessar 3,8) at Warren Dunes, developing thru Central Camera Co., Chicago

Opened hand cradles a 12size gold-filled-case pocket watch, with pointed hands over an arabic numeral dial that's had its hand-painted-surface further customized by a flaming bleeding heart wreathed by a crown of thorns & topped with a cross. Custom paintjob is done in black & red & yellow. Watch is attached to a yellow gold fob faceted with expansions to make it appear like fish scales. Each of the 5 "scale" portions has been ended with a round top.

#TodaysTimepiece I'll probably trot-out all weekend: a 12Size South Bend Watch, Grade411, with a gorgeous Jugendstil arabic numeral paper dial has been augmented by a custom "Sacred Heart of Jesus" wreathed flaming heart crowned with a cross, ca. 1920

Late-night-scene at a downtown intersection, showing an early-20th-century brick business block (one of the businesses having a large clock out in front, curbside). The foot & vehicle traffic has been reduced to blurs & long lights, due to the long exposure.

"Which Way to Smith's?"* [First National Bank building, Mishawaka Ave. & Main]; taken one late night July 2021 on long-expired KodakPro unperfed 35mm with the 1926 Vest Pocket Kodak Special; developing & scanning by me.
(* - someone actually shouted that to me as I stood with my camera on tripod)

I cannot wait to see what all you captured!

Over in Dad's garage, I try to keep Grandpa's air compressor close by, just in case I have to blow-out my own hair after a couple days...

Vicki's book "We Deserve This" set-out over a table that's been draped with a granny-square-afghan

On this #TransDayofVisibility, if you're seeking an authoritative collection of TransJoy, look no further than "We Deserve This. A Transfeminine Automotive Lookbook" [Carrara, 2024], by @victoriascott.bsky.social. Truly a love-letter, & one everybody ought to read

Adorable

It's the four inmates who died in the '54 riots

Eddie Duchin & the dancing bunnies wish you a pleasant evening from the first of the ConcertSeries in my parents' backyard (Duchin w/"Lights Out" on the Birch 41-A offered-up as #FairUseMotherfuckers from my own 1934 copy of the 78 single; S*nyMusic can pay ME for use of my record)

Two teenage girls in bikinis are carried-aloft by their "bigs" (the aunts who match their birth-order in the previous generation) while swimming in a Michigan-freshwater-lake. The image would've been out-of-focus if the film hadn't jostled out-of-tautness--as evidenced by the ripples at the top of the image--but the picture of all four of them laughing is in-focus, accentuating the ripples in the water.

Bathing Beauties, Sun.01VIII.2021. Taken on ReraPan400 Black-&-White-film with the 1926 Vest Pocket Kodak Special. Developing & scanning by me. My nieces hate this picture.

This comes from, I believe, the first roll of film I home-developed. And--because I was mixing heavy-handed-Manhattans then--I thought the best blotting-medium was strips of flannel cotton. I was was wrong on that approach.

A square image showing a house & a sign down at the end of a seemingly deserted road. Two nightguard lights illuminate the paths--a greenish mercury vapor & a yellow sodium vapor. Across the road stands a DEAD END sign, in front of which ghostly trails of reddish-yellow-light track head- & tail-lamps of a passing automobile.

Untitled [DEAD END; Where Club meets Byrkit]. Taken Fri.01.V.2020 on CineStill50D color film with the 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621; uncoated Zeiss Tessar 3,8]; developing & scanning by me. Sometime soon I really must grab this roll & re-scan it, after dusting the negs...

<<lightly boops snoot on way up the stairs>>

Thanks! When I was a kid, this was the kind of image I wanted to make--tough to do with those 1980s 1/40th-of-a-second-fixed-focused "toy" 110 cameras w/plastic lenses & built-in-flashes...even then, something told me I'd be better off with something older. Tremendously pleased w/this shot...

A bundled figure in boots & a heavy winter coat stands on the elevated CTA platform as a commuter train pulls into the station. Due to the 75-second-exposure, the lights & corrugated metal of the train cars appear as translucent lines obscuring the people on the other side of the platform.

"Transfer at Clark & Lake," Fri.07.XII.18; taken on Kodak TMax100 film with the Kodak Junior Six-20 Series III (ca. 1938); developing thru Central Camera Co., Chicago

Zeyt nisht mshuge--es ist gants enlekh (to borrow from from Mel's Sioux-Yiddish)

John McCormack wishes you a a Happy St. Patrick's Day from beyond the grave in this 1916 recording (which makes it #FairUse AND #PublicDomain...