Peter Huestis

Right? It has a great "rustic modernism" vibe.

Did some digging, and it's called "crazy paving" and is often thought of as a 1970s thing but, yes, was in fact heavily used post WWII.

Better picture. I don't remember ever seeing this in the United States? It's cute!

I've been watching some yard-cleaning videos from SE London, and noticed that so many houses have this peculiar paving stone style with multicolored slabs. I assume this was the style in the late 40s/early 50s when rebuilding areas after the Blitz?

YouTube video by The Residents - Topic Amber

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cNr...

Boy, Raggedy Ann and Andy seems to be a dead IP.

I love the double whammy that every award Ann wins is deserved AND also an embarrassment for the Washington Post.

Extremely dapper.

The future was never bright for that cat.

'I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield,' North Carolina driver tells 911 It’s not clear if the feline slipped from the eagle’s talons near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park or was discarded simply because the big bird didn’t have a taste for it.

This Week in Hackey Metaphors™ www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-...

Prince side project.

So... wet goat?

LMAO:

YouTube video by Sledgehammer_ Sledgehammer Theatre - Excerpts from BRAIN FEVER

The Pinetones were created to perform a live sound design for Sledgehammer Theater's Brain Fever play in San Diego in 1987, The LA Times gave the play a lukewarm review but raved about the "junglelike and disturbing" Pinetones. Sledgehammer has a demo reel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwFZ...

YouTube video by Peter Huestis Lemon-Fresh Pinetones in Psychedelic Hell Part 1, 1988

Another music upload, this one is my demented psychedelic/industrial/garage/spacerock jam band The Lemon-Fresh Pinetones performing live behind a curtain between sets of utterly rotten Strawberry Alarm Clock wannabes at the Che Café in San Diego, 1988: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfv3...

What a find!

One of my pet peeves is when writers refer to judges' "black robes". It's one of the hackiest things a journalist can do.

It's Aura Awareness Day! Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel, oil on canvas by Marcel Duchamp, 1910. I've always loved this awkward, oddball portrait:

Badass

Aw, so nice to hear that right now! 😎

Oh! Image request from somebody called Marin Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social

The only king I acknowledge www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFYG...

Yes! I'm just finishing Hanley's book now, and it's so good. So glad for him that it was a best seller.

During my latest bout of obsessively listening to The Fall, I noticed something! Despite Mark Smith's relentless misanthropy, there is no detectable misogyny in the Fall's content, and they had more female members than all the other English groups put together. That's got to count for something.

I recently got the Cherry Red vinyl pressing of Levitate, and even though it's clearly a disaster session and far from one of their best, the good bits are absolutely great, and it's Hanley's last album with the Fall and he's wonderful on it.

"Just look at me/too much speed"

Oh yeah, a champion!

THAT was the first picture that started it all, because it went pre-social media viral. It was shortly after that I had my personal encounter, viewing The Hairdo from only a few feet away, and thus my obsession began.

Callista Gingrich on Princess Sparkle Pony's greatest hits. The second picture is my own photograph of Callista's mobile hairdo command center, a holy place which I personally saw her exiting before my astonished eyes.