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Postcard: Will Rogers’ Birthplace

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments

postcard: Will Rogers' birthplace

Card is titled:  “Birthplace of Will Rogers, 12 Miles Northwest of Claremore, Okla.”

Image via the Oklahoma News Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma.  A Genuine Curteich-Chicago “C.T. American Art” post card.

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If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl…

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

If you ever wondered what David Lynch’s take on the Super Bowl might be - what his filmmaker’s eye might make of it - wonder no longer.  Andrew Bouvé has imagined the annual football event through the creative lenses of five cinematic auteurs: Quentin Tarantino, the aforementioned Mr. Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard and Werner Herzog.

The clip representing Tarantino is a riff on his Kill Bill mix of hyper-violence and anime; the Lynch clip seems enamored of the director’s fascination of randomness and backwardness; Anderson’s is storybooklike and musical; Godard here seems to take cues from his Pierrot le Fou (or a number of others, but I just re-watched Pierrot recently, so it’s in my head) with aged black-and-white footage, a wacky voice-over and an odd cameo by Kirk Douglas; Herzog’s narration from his Grizzly Man documentary is used as narration of a game featuring the Chicago Bears.  Even if you’re not familiar with the directors’ styles, there is plenty to enjoy here.

Oh, and GEAUX SAINTS!

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Somewhere in America There’s a Street Named After My Dad

February 6th, 2010 · No Comments


“Somewhere in America There’s a Street Named After My Dad,” from What Up, Dog? (1988) by Was (Not Was)

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Postcard: Oklahoma City Skyscrapers

February 6th, 2010 · No Comments

postcard: Oklahoma City skyscrapers

Card is titled:  “Skyscrapers, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.”

Published by Hy-Grade School, Supply Co., Oklahoma City.

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Today’s Fun Spam (5 February 2010)

February 5th, 2010 · No Comments

Today’s fun spam comment comes to spitballarmy.com courtesy of a userbot going by the name of “Refinance and Mortgage.”  Here it is:

Another word for “thesaurus” is Lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, phrase book, word list etc. Asians do not through hamburgers in their weddings hahaha.

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The Morning Routine

February 5th, 2010 · No Comments

BZZZT! Wake. Teeth. Cats. Swim. Tea. News. Morning constitutional. Bathe. Clothes. Keys. Work. Desk. Sit. Q u i e t.

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Postcard: World’s Highest Double-Track Railroad Bridge

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

postcard: World's Highest Double-Track Railroad Bridge

Card is titled:  “World’s Highest Double-Track Railroad Bridge.”

Printed on back of postcard:

Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge across the Des Moines River Valley between Boone and Ogden, Iowa.  “The World’s Highest Double Track Railroad Bridge.”

Printed by Dunlop-Henline Co., North Platte, Nebraska.  Plastichrome by Colourpicture, Boston, Massachusetts 02130.

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Look Somewhere Else!

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

He walked the grocery store aisles, office badge hanging at his chest by a lanyard, drawing stares as if he were amply mammaried.

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Barbara’s Yowling Problem

February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

His elderly cat moans from the center of the room. It’s Kitty Alzheimer’s, the Vet says. You just need to remind her where she is.

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Postcard: Pensacola beach scene

February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

White sand beach in Pensacola, Florida

Card is titled:  “The World’s Finest and Whitest Sand Beach on Gulf of Mexico, Pensacola Beach, Fla. and Casino.”

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