Happy Bastille Day & crisply starched clothes
Oops, it looks like eres is a Belgian company. Photo by Smoke Tree.
cultural
Sorry, everyone. I don’t know his name.
Photo by Vincie.
Necklace of the Cthulhu Cult
Complete with tentacles. Photo by John Moran.
Flintstone couches
These couches look like they were made for the Flintstones, but as it happens the decor of much of the rest of the home was… Read More »Flintstone couches
Extremely friendly octopus netsuke – 蛸と海女
“The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife [by Hokusai] is not the only work of Edo-period art to depict erotic relations between a woman and an… Read More »Extremely friendly octopus netsuke – 蛸と海女
Hatsuyuki
What is it? It was a mystery, but fortunately, it has a prominent name and I have the Googles. It is a manual block ice… Read More »Hatsuyuki
Pop Party in Petersburg & other German hits
Love the devotchka doing the prisyadka on the cover of Pop Party in Petersburg, from 1969. At that time, of course, St. Petersburg was Leningrad,… Read More »Pop Party in Petersburg & other German hits
Sputnik samovar
Photo by Orange Empire.
Native clown
Some people collect Native American art. Some people collect clown art. And then there’s this. Photo by JNJ.
Reading Monkey
Love how his little feet are clasped. Not really sure if he’s Monkey King Sun Wukong or Lord Hanuman, or just an ordinary very literary… Read More »Reading Monkey