Entertainment For Lively Minds
Your Favourite waste of time......
Posted by Chris G on 18 March 2010 - 11:13am.
as the much deride Owen Paul once sung!
Not that you need anymore distraction on the net but here's some fascinating amusing things I've been sent via Twitter or stumbled upon on Flickr etc.
Move over sleeve face excellent montage of lp sleeves
What you're having wonderful photo journal of welsh working men's club.
Evocative if strangely gruesome serving suggestion etc from 70's women's mags
Anyone got other sites of interest or diversion to share?
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I love this
Could be it be real, or is it merely bollocks?
http://www.johntitor.com/
And these are great. How many locations can you identify?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasleso/
Thanks FC will have to have a longer read
John Titor stuff later
but love the old photos , one of my fave bits of flickr is people's old pictures found this archive the other day of one mans war service http://www.flickr.com/photos/fauxaddress/sets/72157608394780148/
Wow
What a document. They're great. I could stay on Flickr all day.
It's amazing how even a fairly mundane photo like this...
can be so evocative of a particular place and time.
I keep thinking that Arthur Daley or Bodie and Doyle are going to walk into the frame...
You could be right
It's round the corner from me, I think, in Battersea. It's barely changed. It's apparently in the flckr group of Sweeney locations, though I can't find it at all.
Marshall Crenshaw
Can I be the first to point out that OP may have had the hit with it but it was the mighty (bit oft-ignored) Marshall C who wrote it. Lovely demo, credited to The Handsome, Ruthless and Stupid Band - a tip of the hat to Dorothy Parker, methinks - is on the b side of "Cynical Girl" but here's a fairly recent live clip of him doing it:-
Grand song!
never said he wrote it! : )
I think this is the ultimate performance of the song !
Well there goes another deadline..
..thanks Chris.
The wonderfully-monickered Madame Yevonde...
was instrumental in the development of colour photography (particularly the VIVEX process) in the 1930s. Her photography was as exotic as her name, encompassing society portraiture (her 'Godesses' series is legendary), advertising work, fashion and still life. She had a masterful yet playful way with set design, composition and lighting which resulted in photographs which (when viewed from a 21st Century perspective) are both technically brilliant and enormous fun.
http://www.users.waitrose.com/~felice/
Excellent she did
this http://www.users.waitrose.com/~felice/image18.htm
well I have now learnt something today which always make me happy.
That's extraordinary Chris...
I was just about to edit my post and upload the very same photo.
I think I'll do so anyway...
now I need to know
which lp or book I've seen this on! :) it may just be a art book round a mates house or penguin classic reissue
I've lost many an afternoon to...
... TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage) a site dedicated to the many and various tropes utilised every day by the makers of films and TV series. It's a fun wiki that spins off in every direction - start off anywhere and you'll find yourself going from link to link (there are dozens on every page) exploring all manner of nonsense, including huge numbers of examples from all corners of the arts.
And before you know it, it's home time!
Angry people
I find I waste a bit of time keeping an eye on:
Angry people in local newpapers
http://apiln.blogspot.com/
My first dictionary
http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/
Strange maps
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
But get me on YouTube and that is the rest of the evening gone!
I have to confess
to a sneaking admiration for the sheer amount of research that's gone into the Pathetic Motorways site
How about
http://www.oddee.com - random, weird lists
or