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verhext — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:38:29 +0000

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 South ~ Southern Folklife Collection blog

Dead Star Encased in Diamond Shroud ~ tell me about it, scienceland. This is the new name of my goth band.

Sepia Town ~ maps with old photos overlaid. WHAT. This is so amazing. I need to add some of my old family photos of NYC.

Tin Eye ~ Reverse image lookup — for all those un-credited photos on tumblr!

Grow House Grow ~ Can I have a house of my own so I can put all these wallpapers up?

P.S. I moved my blogroll to it’s own page!! Check out the link at the top of the site! I try to add the blogs I read, but let me know if you think I’d like yours!

down the rabbithole

verhext — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:37:00 +0000

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 and surprises and amazing things coming up — October is soooo busy busy at my work and I just want to go home and nest up– but SOON I will be spending more more more time sewing! My serger is broken again and I just had it fixed: I’m afeared shes done for good, mateys.

3. Zhena’s Gypsy Rose Tea ~ black tea with red roses. Mmmm Fall coziness.

4. The Water Babies ~ A Fairy tale for a Land-Baby

5. At the age of 9, Tasha Tudor purchased her first article of early 19th century clothing. Over the next seventy years, this iconic American author & illustrator amassed a comprehensive collection of American & European women’s, men’s and children’s historic clothing dating from the mid 18th through the mid 19th centuries. Auction photos and catalog for sale, though the sale is over. Sad!

6. No, really. I want to share these secrets! Mppppsshshhhhmmmppph!!

7. Fever Ray is on Monday!! I’m sure I’ll freak out and want to start making music again. Who wants to make a ghostlingparanormalwitchchant band with me!?

raptures from the ether

verhext — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:15:31 +0000

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 she is not insane. A close examination will show her to be nervous, excitable, and will force her to admit that she is jealous of her husband, that she strikes & slaps her daughters (grown children); that she accuses them of attempting to poison her with Arsenic, and yet she is unable to give any reasons for such suspicions. She does not sleep at night; or but very little, scarcely eats through fear of being poisoned. She belongs to that class of insanity so well described by Trelat under the title of La Folie Lucide. Members of her family are said to have died insane.

Moss Graffiti
Ummmm, yes. Font geekery + moss love == !(*&!^&!!! Shop signs, house numbers, reclaiming billboards, messages to the universe…endless possibilities.

(Image from Cross Hatchling)

Digger Archives
The Diggers were one of the legendary groups in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, one of the world-wide epicenters of the Sixties Counterculture which fundamentally changed American and world culture. Shrouded in a mystique of anonymity, the Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers (1649-50) who had promulgated a vision of society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of two Radical traditions that thrived in the SF Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement.

Fugitivus
Epic girl crush! Sometimes I get really sad and discouraged because it seems like today’s young ladies have no interest in women’s rights, or socialization issues, or sexuality, or gender politics, or fixing this broken little world we’ve got, but then I come across blogs like this and it makes me feel better and safer and like things will be okay, one day.

Which leads me to a non-internets thought – last night at Pegasus Books I came across this book called Daughter of Earth written in 1923 by Agnes Smedley – it looks amazing, I’m going to start it at lunch.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. Agnes Smedley

little paths

verhext — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:36:01 +0000

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 else is coming? Amber? Sasha!!? Come down!!!

3.Rik Mayall tells fairy stories with animation that’s more 2004 Mission School than 1989

4. Drew Barrymore on NPR, talking about Grey Gardens (I love her, no haters!) She talks about isolating herself to understand Edie, so amazing.

nooks and crannies

verhext — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:47:15 +0000

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