Ants, how do they work?! #learnsomethingweird
Ships! #learnsomethingweird
Time to #learnsomethingweird at Odd Salon: UNCHARTED!
It may be on April 1st but this is no joke. Odd Salon SF: DASTARDLY is just around the corner.
Get your tickets:
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40-22 is far too reasonable for a football score. I prefer... 222-0 as told by @gilliam317.bsky.social for
@oddsalon.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVHb... #LearnSomethingWeird
A black and white photograph of the wreckage of the Antarctic exploration ship Endurance sinking into the ice, as sled dogs look on.
See me speak at @oddsalon.bsky.social : ASTOUND
Martin Strauss ~ Pics or it didn’t happen: Frank Hurley, Antarctica, and the Art of Adventure Photography
Public Works, 161 Erie St, San Francisco
Tuesday 2/4 at 6:30pm
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He also... :wheeze: he also built ahahaha :cough wheeze: ahahaha he also built the... ah hell here’s the picture
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James Lick wanted to build a giant funerary pyramid in downtown San Francisco. I just ask: where’s the CEQA report?
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“This one has nothing to do with my talk but I just like this picture”
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“Join the army they said... See the world they said... the waters will part they said...”
@OddSalon MONUMENTAL #learnsomethingweird
Too real, millennials.
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“Giant... DOORWAY TO NOWHERE.... I’m gonna get my ass kicked for that.”
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“How about we start calling them ‘himacanes’?”
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“I raise my glass to one thing only: making Léger-Félicité Sonthonax cry”
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Napoleon: “STAY OUT OF SANTO DOMINGO”
Toussant: ...
Napoleon: “I MEAN IT”
Toussant: *invades Santo Domingo, frees the slaves, imposes French martial law*
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“Personally, I like to imagine him up on stage crying and pissing his sans-coulottes.”
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The Egypt-DDay whiplash is intense in this talk.
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“YOU MOTHERFUCKER, GET UP OFF YOUR ASS AND GET REDEEMED!”
...yup, typical Leonard talk. Bless you @mediapathic .
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The pope wanted his head! So he painted this self portrait. It was a bit!
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“... a melee of stabbing and punching and running, and Tommasoni quickly bleeds to death.”
Crowd member: “THE ARISTOCRATS!”
Everyone: *laughing*
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“This is the pope! Or well, a picture of the pope.”
Crowd: ART!
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May 29, 1952: they summit Everest - neither first, TOGETHER!
Friendship: breakfast of champions.
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Also cat pics: always topical, never get old.
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“...with Eric Ship...ton?”
Crowd: “SHIPS..?”
“Yeah that’s the only ship in this talk. Except maybe friendship.”
Crowd: “AWWW!”
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The king and his men dressed as... topiary that had been trimmed into the shape of chessmen.
No joke! They acted as basically his wingmen.
“Topiary wingmen” is my new tradpunk band.
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“After complications in her TENTH pregnancy, the queen was put on a strict No Fucking diet.” :audience hisses: “... and she basically asked ‘Does this mean I get to sleep in? Oh, okay then.’”
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“If you’re not read up on your 18th century sexual practices... I mean there must be one or two of you in this audience who aren’t experts...”
Arthur Kay on Madame De Pompadour
@OddSalon ODDMENTS 2019 @PublicWorksSF #learnsomethingweird
“And they had... their own version of Odd Salon!”
Yep, turns out gathering interesting people to tell interesting stories is not a new thing.
@OddSalon ODDMENTS 2019 @PublicWorksSF #learnsomethingweird
“Nobody yet has written biographies of Best and Shippam” :audience hisses:
Clearly we need to start a small publishing house. 🤔
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