→ April 6, 2010
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This post has been in my drafts for like 2493892 months now. Click publish! Just some tiny bits and pieces from around the internebs. Have you stumbled across anything good lately? The moss flora of New York City and vicinity by Abel Joel Grout, pHD, c. 1916. Google Books makes me want 2349328472 old books. Field Trip [...]
→ September 29, 2009
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I’ve definitely got the mean reds this week, oh dear! Mercury Retrograde, for sure. October, please hurry!! Bring cupcakes! Want to dig me a hole and burrow into some crisp leaves! Instead, distractions ~ 1. 1930’s predictions for year 2000 fashion. Love the Continental accent, and “Ooh, swish!” 2. Magic and plans and magic! So many secrets [...]
→ August 11, 2009
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The Bolter by Frances Osborne ‘While her fellow Edwardian debutantes in their crisp white dresses merely contemplated daring acts, Idina went everywhere with a jet-black Pekinese called Satan.’ New Orleans (La.) City Insane Asylum Record of Patients, 1882-1884; 1888 Hallucinations, with Delirium of Persecution. This lady reasons her case so very well as to induce the belief that [...]
1. Austrian girls sell vintage Austrian goodies. What? Like a magical land!! Now, if only the $ would match the Euro… Bows & Bandits 2. Pretty clothes & Mariee Sioux’s mama from the ladies at Violet Folklore 2a. Elly & Holly I am buying us tickets for Mariee & Alela May 11th at Du Nord now. Who [...]
→ April 8, 2009
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1. Folkstreams ~ A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures (all watchable from the site) 2. Yoko Ono’s flickr 3. Alice Bag’s flickr 4. One of my favorite Tarot interpretation sites 5. The New York Public Library Picture Collection Online Share/Save
So one phenomenal thing about the internet, to me, is how much heartstopping magic is out there that we’d never know about, really. I feel like almost every day there is something that actually makes my heart hurt with joy or recognition or just plain human bedazzlement, this wonder at what we are and what [...]
1. Aspen ~ A multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Each issue came in a customized box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters, postcards — one issue even included a spool of Super-8 movie film. Be sure to read Letters from Vali in no. 9. 2. Annie Besant ~ fought [...]
