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Old movies, old guitars, old records, old books, old photos.
BLOG POST: Another batch of spooky stories, mostly made for TV, that I think capture something of the vibe of the Lawrence Gordon Clark era of BBC ghost stories for Christmas.
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Tomorrow at midday I'm going to put another ten gilded goat professionally defaced copies of Tales Accursed into the shop, just so you know..!
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
Cat paw print in a red brick wall.
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
10.12.2025 16:07 — 👍 3220 🔁 730 💬 30 📌 28🎞️🎭🎂Happy Una Merkel's Birthday!
10.12.2025 08:34 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Barry, I’m so sorry to hear this.
10.12.2025 03:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A screen grab from the Tarkovsky film 'Solarios' showing two leather swivel chairs in a space station setting.
These leather swivel chairs can be seen in Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' and I'd appreciate any help identifying the designer/maker. Is it Svend Skipper? If so what's the model?
08.12.2025 20:31 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 6 📌 1
#ukulele
youtu.be/V4Aj0PAdF0E
I’m in a tinwork cycle so no new paintings for awhile.
08.12.2025 18:01 — 👍 1903 🔁 109 💬 59 📌 0
Just put a Bummer Xmas Mix up on the patreon. It's got christmas in jail, vietnam, and other places.
Check it out at the link!
www.patreon.com/posts/bummer...
Sheet music for the dong The Monkey Doodle Doo by Irving Berlin. The illustration shows five monkeys playing musical instruments.
Sheet music for the song The Monkey Doodle Doo from the play The Cocoanuts. The illustration shows two grass huts on the beach.
Irving Berlin wrote two different songs called The Monkey Doodle Doo. The earlier one was composed in 1913. That’s not a title I would have thought needed to be revisited, but there you go.
08.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
100 years ago today:
The Cocoanuts, starring the Marx Brothers, opens on Broadway.
I had a friend who was obsessed with finding out how many times Ringo screwed up a take and after listening to countless outtakes, he said he couldn’t find more than a dozen.
08.12.2025 07:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 plastic wigs from the 1960s.
Box for plastic toy wigs from the 1960s.
Good morning! It looks the ladies in the nightgowns were interrupted while they were trying on their plastic wigs.
08.12.2025 06:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this is pretty crazy but you know what is actually a great stocking stuffer? a foot. it's literally the exact same shape as the stocking, it's wild
06.12.2025 19:19 — 👍 384 🔁 70 💬 19 📌 1
A tabby cat reclining on her back.
Dignity. Always dignity.
06.12.2025 04:40 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A clothes rack with about 30 choir robes on hangers.
Get in losers, we’re going to start a choir.
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All time banger by birthday boy Little Richard
youtu.be/HLIlRvEa3Ls?...
AUTHOR'S PREFACE THE Author regrets that in arranging the materials for this book the morals were unaccountably mislaid.
The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
05.12.2025 05:35 — 👍 101 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 4
In 1706 a pamphlet was published which described how a Mrs Veal visited a friend in Canterbury - despite having died the day before. There's evidence the booklet was written by Daniel Defoe. This famous image shows the (very relaxed) spirit of Mrs Veal floating through the ether.
#BookologyThursday
‘Not knowing whether a set of papyrus fragments were valuable or even genuine, the farmer dropped off a sample at the British Museum for an evaluation.
The expert who examined the papyri could identify them precisely because he had dug them up himself in Saqqara.’
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I'll be reopening the shop early next week and I'm hoping to have one final pre-christmas batch of defaced books ready to sell on Friday the 12th, watch this spaaaaace 👁️...
04.12.2025 08:33 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
That time in 2014 when the BBC daytime soap 'Doctors' adapted M.R. James's short story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQO...
I've been lurking in crypts again. Big fan of this Lucio Fulci-ass worm-ridden skull on the casket of Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken...
03.12.2025 18:20 — 👍 177 🔁 23 💬 9 📌 1
Title page of the book Tales Accursed with a drawing of Krampus next to printed receipt.
Print of a goat headed creature playing the lute and smaller card of a goat headed demon holding two torches.
Packing material with a stamp of an imp.
Wrapping paper with a block of text.
I just got a signed book and a print from @slipperyjack.bsky.social. Everything is beautifully produced, even down to the packaging. (Check out that wrapping paper.) Richard’s online shop is closed right now, presumably so he has time to professionally deface more books to flog when he reopens.
04.12.2025 05:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1My shelf, which is really some boxes, has a lot of overlap. My faves I don’t see are The Bishop’s Wife, The Holly and the Ivy and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
04.12.2025 01:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the many reasons I love the Criterion Channel is that they curate amazing collections like this!
01.12.2025 18:00 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Vintage book cover with an illustration of a woman seated in an orange chair, surrounded by green plants. BELMONT L92-599 40¢ She had the world at her feet, stars in her eyes, and murder in her mind. FELICIA BY MARK DANE
Vintage book cover showing a woman in a yellow dress seated in a chair, with a man in a suit standing beside her. The story of a compulsive ladies’ man… and a bachelor girl whose mating instinct more than matched his own. The Insider James Kelly SP48 Popular Special 50¢ “By a wide margin, the best of the Madison Avenue exposés.” —SATURDAY REVIEW
Vintage book cover with an illustration of a woman seated in a yellow chair. Erle Stanley Gardner writing under the name of A. A. Fair Gold Comes In Bricks A Donald Lam Bertha Cool Mystery DELL 2952 45¢
Vintage book cover with a figure on an orange chair and bold textual elements. DELL FIRST EDITION A142 The superheated world of the music makers... a young man in a hurry... and the girl who got in his way FRANK KANE THE LIVING END 25¢
bringing my obsession with the frequency and ubiquitousness with which Butterfly Chairs were featured on pulp covers to Bluesky:
30.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 88 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 3If the Ritz Brothers don't do the job, try El Brendel. That should keep 'em away in droves.
02.12.2025 00:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you haven’t bought my smash-hit book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA yet, the good folks at @orbooks.bsky.social are offering it in a bundle with an essential collection of Ed Wood’s short stories!
orbooks.com/cult-classic...
