Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities & Treasures.: Archive

“And even if we win, if we win, hah! And even if we...

Nov 24th

“How can one age the heart? What wound, what memory will...”
— Gia Carlo Menotti

Nov 24th

Do you mind…? From 1963.

Nov 24th

Let “SECRET VOICE” speak for you. From 1960.

Nov 23rd

“The wise reject what they think, not what they see.”
— Huang-Po

Nov 23rd

“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front...”
— Hunter S. Thompson (via...

Nov 23rd

From 1951.

Nov 23rd

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever...”
— Richard Brautigan

Nov 23rd

Nov 22nd

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery...”
— Helen Keller

Nov 22nd

YOUR MOTHER’S SUCH FUN! From 1954.

Nov 22nd

“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making...”
— Charles Mingus

Nov 22nd

“Every neighborhood needs a FLOK-KRAFTER”

Nov 22nd

My father always promised me That we would live in France ...

Nov 22nd

“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun...”
— Raymond Chandler (via zoomar)

Nov 22nd

U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry. ...

Nov 21st

“If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If...”
— Aaron Sorkin

Nov 21st

“Four be the things I’d been better without: Love,...”
— Dorothy Parker

Nov 21st

SWIM IN IT! From 1972.

Nov 21st

I always say, let there be drums!

Nov 21st

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are...”
— Freya Madeline Stark

Nov 20th

1953.

Nov 20th

“It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that...”
— Kenneth Clark

Nov 20th

Approved by The Council of Monsters:...

Nov 20th

zoomar: John Leech, A Very Bad Case

Nov 20th

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for...”
— Dorothy Parker

Nov 20th

Absolutely harmless to humans.

Nov 19th

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it...”
— Dr. Seuss

Nov 19th

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any...”
— Albert Camus

Nov 19th

The classic, “not much time left,” gambit.

Nov 19th

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you...”
— Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and...

Nov 19th

“(King George III) has erected a multitude of New...

Nov 18th

Toughen Up Americans!

Nov 18th

“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the...”
— Kevin Spacey

Nov 18th

When did dogs stop being available in such nice colors?

Nov 18th

“Between living and dreaming, there is a third thing. Guess...”
— Antonio Machado

Nov 18th

NOT A COPY: THE REAL THING

Nov 18th

“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything...”
— Cormac McCarthy

Nov 18th

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nov 17th

“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of...

Nov 17th

“There are some joys in the higher hypochondria.”
— Gore Vidal

Nov 17th

zoomar: Afraid of men? Sure you are. Dynamic Personality ...

Nov 17th

From 1968.

Nov 17th

…By in effect outlawing brass in children’s...

Nov 17th

“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s...”
— Diogenes of Sinope

Nov 17th

Godzilla, 1955.

Nov 17th

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on...”
— Hunter S. Thompson

Nov 16th

“The Federal Government recommends that each family...

Nov 16th

PLASTICS

Nov 16th

“In its essence life is monotonous. Happiness therefore...”
— Embracing Monotony - from...

Nov 16th

Improve Your Face By Making Faces

Nov 16th

“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our...”
— Honore de Balzac

Nov 16th

“I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don’t...”
— Steven Wright (via...

Nov 15th

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
— Steve Martin

Nov 15th

From 1960.

Nov 15th

Meat Inspection Stamp

Nov 15th

“Do not make excuses, whether it’s your fault or not.”
— George S. Patton (via...

Nov 15th

Deep thoughts from the past.

Nov 15th

“…love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and...”
— Leonard Cohen ...

Nov 15th

“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable...

Nov 15th

Fit for a King.

Nov 15th

“It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.”
— Dorothy Parker

Nov 14th

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will...

Nov 14th

“I am not overlooking any mail. I’m looking at all of...”
— Randy Newman

Nov 14th

“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is...

Nov 14th

“It is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
— Thoreau

Nov 14th

suitep: The Satanic leaf-tailed gecko.

Nov 14th

Charles Bukowski with Mickey Rourke

Nov 14th

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass...”
— Eduardo Galeano

Nov 14th

Nov 13th

“A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the...”
— Maria Montessori

Nov 13th

By Mukesh Srivastava.

Nov 13th

“You have to stand for what you believe in. And sometimes you...”
— Queen Latifah

Nov 13th

From 1960.

Nov 13th

The Zither Girls

Nov 13th

“Often enough God gives man a glimpse of happiness, and then...”
— From The Histories by...

Nov 13th

From 1927.

Nov 13th

“And if you gaze into the dude, the dude gazes into you.”
— Gregory Crosby

Nov 12th

“The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories. Life...”
— Mark Helprin

Nov 12th

I’LL SAY ONE THING FOR THE RISING YOUNG ARTIST, HE...

Nov 12th

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a...”
— Charles Bukowski

Nov 12th

Can Disney Re-invent the Rodent?...

Nov 12th

“Everything’s amazing, and nobody’s happy.”
— Louis CK

Nov 12th

(via shutup-andkissme)

Nov 11th

“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is...”
— Édouard Boubat [Notebooks,...

Nov 11th

“The future, eventually, will find you out.”
— William Gibson

Nov 11th

Das Moto-Baby

Nov 11th

“There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.”
— Robert Nathan

Nov 11th

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each...”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable...

Nov 11th

Hams, hams, hams.

Nov 10th

…as easy as pouring water out of a glass… Ad...

Nov 10th

“A sad fact, of course, about adult life is that you...

Nov 10th

Picture Show: Inside a Colombian Prison....

Nov 10th

“Some people sing in the bath for half an hour. What kind of...”
— President Hugo Chavez, calling...

Nov 10th

“Every man knows that he is a sissy compared to Johnny...

Nov 10th

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nov 10th

Nov 9th

“…they should be taken with a grain of salt, he...

Nov 9th

“The single biggest problem with communication is the...”
— George Bernard Shaw

Nov 9th

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about...

Nov 9th

The way boys ate breakfast in 1960.

Nov 9th

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”
— Chinese proverb

Nov 9th

zoomar: Polo shirts with your child’s picture. Meet the...

Nov 9th

From France. Paris, France. This plucky French girl starts...

Nov 8th

From the amazing and cranky Lech Walesa: SPIEGEL ONLINE:...

Nov 8th

http://www.prweb.com/releases/taxidermy/auction/prweb3087414....

Nov 8th

“Even on the most exalted throne in the world, we still sit...”
— Montaigne

Nov 8th

From France.

Nov 8th

From Switzerland.

Nov 8th

“The human body essentially recreates itself every six...”
— Donald Miller

Nov 8th

New Yorker cover—so often in perfect sync with our...

Nov 7th

Congress’s Brass Knuckles Another casualty of the lead...

Nov 7th

“I had a flash of something I hadn’t felt…a mixture of...”
— Hunter S. Thompson

Nov 7th

Lunch, in 1960.

Nov 7th

“From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look...

Nov 7th

“It’s hard to get the news from poetry, but people die...”
— William Carlos Williams

Nov 7th

suitep: marjoree: When the red, red robin comes bob, bob...

Nov 6th

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
— Francis Bacon

Nov 6th

Painfully Honest Mobile Home Commercial

Nov 6th

“And whenever I get off a good poem, that’s another crutch to...”
— Charles Bukowski

Nov 6th

“My talents are more valuable than yours, so I am paid...”
— Jack Donaghy

Nov 5th

From Italy.

Nov 5th

From France.

Nov 5th

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
— Fulton J. Sheen

Nov 5th

famouslywildly: Edmund Wilson’s all-purpose bugger-off...

Nov 5th

WHAT A PITY! From 1958.

Nov 5th

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if...”
— Italo Calvino, Invisible...

Nov 4th

Love Poem With Toast Some of what we do, we do to make...

Nov 4th

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial...”
— Marshall McLuhan

Nov 4th

Styles so appealing that you’d never guess at the...

Nov 4th

SAFE IN 2 WAYS!

Nov 4th

“Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death...”
— Shakespeare, Richard II

Nov 4th

Lucky Me! From 1965.

Nov 4th

“Not content to run the plumbing of the Internet and...

Nov 3rd

“There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can...”
— Terry Pratchett - Unseen...

Nov 3rd

Gerbil vest.

Nov 3rd

“Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re...”
— John Wayne

Nov 3rd

Love Magazine, 1970.

Nov 3rd

Oysters + Sausage = An Exciting Flavor Combination

Nov 3rd

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as...

Nov 2nd

“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all...”
— David Foster Wallace

Nov 2nd

From Lippincott’s Magazine, 1881. “Soothes the...

Nov 2nd

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will...”
— Robert A. Heinlein

Nov 2nd

liquidnight: Photographer Unknown…

Nov 2nd

“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
— Tom Robbins

Nov 1st

“There are three rules. Law number one is The Innocent Must...”
— Sam Raimi lists the laws of...

Nov 1st

Ad from 1952.

Nov 1st

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