Spitball Army

I talked to another doctor this afternoon. He told me that I would end up either in New York or Washington, D.C. According to him, those are the only 2 hospitals I can go to for treatment of my nerve injury.

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Card is titled: “LIBERTY ENLIGHTING THE WORLD.” The various attributes of the Statue of Liberty are pointed out in the photo: 12 persons can stand in torch Length of arm 42 ft. 40 persons can stand in the head Distance between the eyes 2 ft 6 in. Length of nose 4 ft. 6 in. Width […]

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Before devoting himself to psychology, Freud conducted zoological research and is credited with discovering testicles in eels.

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My favorites in music, from what I heard this past year.

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Beck’s Sea Change;
Hem’s Twelfth Night;
The Wooden Birds’ Magnolia

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A giant tiled wall of jewel-toned loops and curves — one of the last commissions by the Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt — was unveiled in the 59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last week.

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This pair of signs was photographed in July of 1986 in New York’s Soho.

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The two buttons above were created to help promote a couple of stage productions put on by Harvard theatrical groups while I was an undergrad, between 1978 and 1982.

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Here are more found things from one corner of one room of my little house. This little batch, like the last two posted, are buttons, proclaiming support for certain “causes.”

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1984 was a landslide victory year for Ronald Reagan. His Democratic opponent was former Vice-President Walter Mondale. Reagan’s re-election was practically assured as, under his first term watch, the economy showed definite signs of revival. It seemed that there was little for the Democrats to do than go through the motions, and pretend that their candidate stood a chance.

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