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Wilhelmina Godfrey (1914-1994), Sint Maarten (Dutch West Indies), 1989 Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 in

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in general i am very pro musical covers. some of my favourite songs are covers. that said i think we all need to agree not to cover linda ronstadt anymore. nothing anyone can do will be better or more interesting than her version. sorry! linda 4ever

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Wilhemina Godfrey (1914-1994), Jacks, 1950 Egg tempera on board, 18 x 24 in

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Adele Rieger Cohen (1922-2002), Spirit Rush Series #1, Diptych-Canyon Series, n.d. Oil pastel collage, 51 1/4 x 39 3/4 in (two panels)

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“Miracle on the Mountain” by Clarence Schmidt. Clarence Schmidt was locally and nationally renowned outsider artist -  an iconic pioneer of monumental environmental sculpture. His ongoing life’s work, the “Miracle on the Mountain,” was constructed of found objects and recycled materials between the years 1940-1972, which evolved on the back slope of Ohayo Mountain, in Woodstock NY.

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Ad for PTT Telecom, the Netherlands. Scanned by me

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Virginia Cuthbert (1908-2001), Self-Portrait, c. 1941 Oil on board, 30 7/8 x 36 3/4 in

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Wilhelmina Godfrey (1914-1994), City Playground, 1949-50 Wax emulsion and oil on board, 44 x 38 in

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robyn is off at an outdoor festival of sorts with inconsistent phone signal but im still texting them as usual so our chat history is just a long stream of boring thoughts with no replies

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scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

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Today round ass puppy revealed to me, exhausted, at the end of my rope, that her training wasn't working not because she didn't understand, she did, she did, but instead because treats, chicken, turkey and pork apparently weren't enough motivation. She began obeying every word with startling accuracy as soon as she was offered something else. Doing backflips and stunts with pyrotechnics as prompted for the promise of a pea. A pea. She's a dog. A pea. A pea. A pea. I have to carry peas around now. On my person. Personal peas. 🫛 peas

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Dashiell Hammett, who basically invented the noir genre (think: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) hung out enough in the queer scene in San Francisco in the 20s-30s that he picked up some contemporary queer lingo that he folded into his stories. In The Maltese Falcon, there’s a scene where the wildly gay-coded villain shows up at a meeting with a skinny little blonde with a bad attitude and a gun in tow, and detective Sam Spade tells him to “leave the gunsel outside” — gunsel being contemporary gay slang for a young, effeminate man who probably bottoms (from the Yiddish gansl, meaning gosling). Basically, he’s saying “I’m here to talk to you, not your twink.”

However, a lot of writers mimicking Hammett did not know gay lingo or Yiddish, saw the word “gun,” and assumed “gunsel” meant “scary bodyguard with a gun.” They took off with a word they didn’t understand and spread it so fast that it’s now basically impossible to read a noir story written between 1930-1960 without someone accidentally being called a twink at least once. Look out for it next time you’re reading Raymond Chandler or his ilk, I guarantee you’ll find it.

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Virginia Cuthbert (American, 1908-2001), This Side of Brooklyn, 1956. Oil on canvas, framed: 53 7/8 x 37 ¾ in.

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Once a day, shadows briefly bring back to life the beautiful ‘Ghost of Ungru Manor’ Estonia...

Courtesy: Abandoned Places

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Wilhelmina Godfrey (1914-1994), Face Fetish, c. 1970 Wool, glass, wood and plastic beads, polyester stuffing, metal rod, 42 1/2 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/4 in

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Wilhemina Godfrey (1914-1994), Before the Show (Michigan Ave. YMCA), 1952 Tempera on paper, 26 x 31 in