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[billycw]

And to go further into detail, when I look at that Mendel photo above I think,...

Did Matthew Mcconaughey figure out time travel, go back in time kidnapping Mendel for a good old mid 1800's romp through Europe and for some unknown reason drag him to this get together making him pose in this photo. Matthew wanting a keepsake poses just to the right of him in the photo puffing on the stogie. Mendel defiant looks away from both the picture and his captor... Or something along those lines

 

[billycw]

With our world in a spinning state of constant change, there are always those left obsolete. Before the conception of the alarm clock, there were those that walked the dark streets to wake the slumbers of the working man, they were the Knocker Upper's...

Unknown knocker upper Northern England

To wake people from their sleep, knocker uppers were employed to knock on windows or doors to wake the workers. Mostly done with long poles sometimes fitted with snuffer's, many times being double employed as the lamplighters who would light and put out the street lamps nightly. Some like Mary Smith used her trusty pea shooter to rattle the windows.

Mary Smith shooting her dried peas at waking windows

Drawn on a pub wall in Hanky Park, a calling card ode of sorts for the local Knocker upper Jack Fellows. Jack with his two dogs, one called "Lol" and another tiny dog called "Twerp" which he kept in his jacket pocket, was one of the last working Knocker uppers.

Jack Fellows with his dogs Lol and Twerp

But with time and the advent of inventions to lesser human interaction, how we live, work and go about our days are forever changing...

Yorkshire Evening Post 1922

I feel this british folk song sums it all up nicely...

The Knocker Upper Man-
British folk song by Mike Canavan

Through cobbled streets so cold and damp
The Knocker-Upper man goes creeping
Tap-tapping at the window pane
To wake the town from sleeping.

Chorus :
He said “Eh thee up and stir thi'self
The factory ooter’s blowin’
So get up from your nice warm bed
To work you must be goin’”

Day in day out the year about
Though snow or rain are fallin
You’d hear his clogs along the street
You’d hear his voice a’callin’

All the early-rising working folk
The Knocker-Upper's call they heeded
But time goes by, old customs die
Now he's no longer needed

Through streets of quiet suburbia
The Knocker-Upper's ghost goes creeping
Now listening to the ringing sound
That wakes the town from sleeping

 

[billycw]

“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”
-Joe Rogan

An excerpt from Joe Rogan's stand-up about Life and The Universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DpdEmbNwGk

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[billycw]

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
― William T. Sherman 1880

Vietnam on June 18, 1965.

Ann Arbor Sun, August 28, 1969

The real air america... Air-America--Bell-205-helicopter at Hmong base, Loas

Anti Vietnam War Demonstration by Marc Riboud

 

[Hermanthegerman]

Against corn on the feet

 

[Betterhaff]

Ann Arbor Sun, August 28, 1969
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"Free JOHN" as in John Sinclair...2 joints.

 

[billycw]

"Free JOHN" as in John Sinclair...2 joints.

“Our program is cultural revolution through a total assault on culture, which makes use of every tool, every energy and every media we can get our collective hands on… our culture, our art, our music, our books, our posters, our clothing, the way our hair grows long, the way we smoke dope and fuck and eat and sleep-it-s all one message-the message is freedom.” –John Sinclair (1969)

John Sinclair

Yes, the Ann Arbor Sun was John Sinclair's paper he founded and edited until his 10 for 2 arrest. The paper continued and and was the main force in the Free John campaign. Really fun archive to look through.

John Lennon - 10 for 2/John Sinclair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2hAfPN6KDU
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[Betterhaff]

Stevie Wonder stole the show...was wonderful.

 

[billycw]

Stevie Wonder stole the show...was wonderful.

Had a long day of trim hell yesterday but enjoyed going back and listening to Johns rally after your comment, Stevie did kill it

Stevie starts around 50:42 in

JohnSinclairFreedomRally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbHsUcuN6I
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[billycw]

Man with a pipe/ unknown

 

[billycw]

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” ― H.L. Mencken

Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530

Jeanne de Clisson aka "the Lioness of Brittany"

Jeanne de Clisson lived a storied life of ease in Brittany, that is until the Truce of Malestroit in 1343... Under the protection of the truce the French King Philip VI and Charles de Blois loured 16 noble Lords, including Jeanne's husband Olivier de Clisson IV, to a tournament on French soil. King Philip VI then arrested the lords and drug them back to Paris for a quick trial and found guilty, all were publicly beheaded...

Not enough, the king staked the bodies high above Paris for all to see... Still not enough, he send the severed heads back to Oliviers hometown Nantes in Brittany to be put on a lance high over the Sauvetout gate as a warning to others in the city...

Enraged Jeanne swears Vengeance for her husband against King Philip VI and Charles de Blois. First she sells off all of the families lands and possessions. She then takes this money and buys the 3 biggest warships she can find. Next needing a army she hires a pirate crew to man her ships of death...

Not enough Jeanne paints all her ships jet black and dye's the sails blood red. Hoisting the pirate flag... Jeanne and her pirate crew go to war with the French...

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned; Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." -William Congreve c.1697

Jeanne and her pirate fleet hunted down and crushed all French ships who dare to sail her waters. Capturing ships in a bloody vengeance her pirate crew would take no quarter, killing all aboard with 2 exceptions...

The first exemption to the slaughter was noble French men, the Lioness of Brittany(as Jeanne became to be feared by) insisted on boarding the captured ship. Grabbing her trusty battle axe, she took the same mercy as shown to her husband beheading all French noble on board... herself... with her axe...

The second to escape the bloody wrath?... One soul on board the ship was spared, not to spare their lives but to strike fear in another...

The lone survivor was told to tell King Philip VI who was responsible for destroying his ship and laid waste to his crew having been made to watch the carnage...

jorge velarde


The Lioness of Brittany and her pirate crew laid waste to everyone who crossed their path between 1346 and 1356. Having never been defeated in battle Jeanne, only after King Philip VI death, settled down and lived out her days in the country side in peace...

Hoist the Colours
-Hans Zimmer

The King and his men
stole the Queen from her bed
and bound her in her bones
the seas be ours and by the powers
where we will we'll roam

Yo ho, all hands
Hoist the colours high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die

Now some have died
and some are alive
and others sail on sea
with the keys to the cage
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler's Green.

Yo ho, haul together
Hoist the colours high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die

The bell has been raised
from it's watery grave
Hear it's sepulchral tone?
A call to all
pay heed the squall
and turn yourself to home

Yo ho, haul together
Hoist the colours high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars
Never shall we die

Peter Paul Rubens’ “Judith with the Head of Holofernes”

 

[billycw]

 

[billycw]

Wilson's Vaporizing Inhaler- advertisement started in 1882

Vaporizers are all the rage today, but is it a case of technology pushing ever forward or found knowledge?

Sales-Girons pressurized inhaler - c.1858

 

[billycw]

Luis Ricardo Falero

Smoke
-poem by Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight;
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou, my incense, upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

 

[billycw]

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart." ~ Ancient Indian Proverb

Cheyenne smoking pipe/meditating on a rock known as Medicine Rock. 1907 by Edward S. Curtis

 

[billycw]

Soirs - Colour etching with aquatint for Les soirs - 1921 by Édouard Chimot

 

[billycw]

Ilya Repin (1844-1930)....

Ilya Repin - Negrityanka (Negress) c.1876

Ilya Repin - Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks c.1891

Ilya Repin - Sadko - c.1876

Ilya Repin - What freedom! - c.1903

 

[Pinball Wizard]

 

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[Al Botross]

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