Strange Instructions
Rude Boy Very strange instructions indeed …. Failure to follow instructions may result in unexpected outcomes.
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The King Of The Mambo
Super Buffet Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader and a composer who became known as the “King of the Mambo.” Pérez Prado was born in Cuba in 1916 where he learned classical piano and began playing in the Havana night clubs and working as an arranger. He played with Cuba’s best known…
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Photo Study: Funnel Ball
The Artist In my day, it was tetherball. Our common playground game, that is. So this picture came about one day on a photo walk and I had to find out what this strange sculpture on a stick is called. I found out the common playground game today is Funnel Ball. According…
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Hasil Adkins: The Last Elvis
Elvis Hasil Adkins (pronounced “Hassil,” not “Haysil”) (April 29, 1937 – April 26, 2005), was an Appalachian country, rock and roll and blues musician, though he was frequently considered rockabilly and sometimes primitive jazz. He generally performed as a one-man band, playing guitar and drums at the same time and…
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Our Fast Moving Pseudo-Culture
Dirque du Soleil Reality has been subsumed by simulations, which constitute the “hyper real.” People accustomed to the reality presented by TV, film and the news media are now disappointed in the merely real. To many, Disneyland’s Main Street seems more real than its source – the main streets in towns where many…
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Awful Food: Banana Candles
A banana candle salad is a fruit salad that was popular in America from the 1920s until the 1960s. Banana candles are usually made of pineapple, banana, cherry and lettuce. Either whipped cream or cottage cheese may be used to complete the dish. Banana candle salads were used as an…
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These Men Are Called Artists
Son, someday you will make a girl very happy, for a short period of time. Then she will leave you and be with new men who are ten times better than you could every hope to be. These men are called artists.
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Coyote Ugly Means Coyote Dead
Coyote ugly means coyote dead. This image originates in an area of North Central Oklahoma that is known as Red Dirt Country and was the original land opened for settlement in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. This sight was spotted along a fence line abutting a section line road…
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Tropicália: The Brazilian Art Movement
Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, is a Brazilian art movement that originated in the late 1960s. Tropicália, as an artistic movement, involved theatre, music, poetry and art. Tropicália was influenced by what is called concrete poetry, a variant genre of the Brazilian avant-garde poetry embodied in the works of the…
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