Weekend videos! I love Horrible Histories, the songs are so catchy but the skits are charming too!
old Aviatrix pictures are great! This one is Hazel Lee.
dang this 1855 book on manners is harsh on the good ol’ American Way Of Sitting
Follow These Twitters and Websites for historical goodness!
They are all run by the same people, and have great articles to capture your interest!
Medieval history - Twitter: @Medievalists
Ancient history - Twitter: @historyancient
Early Modern England - Twitter: @englandhistory
American Civil War - Twitter: @rebelsoryankees
War of 1812 - Twitter: @TheRedCoats1812
Going through some of the image files on my computer. I love this cartoon! It’s from a Punch collection.
Anyway, as stiff as some of the old illustrations can be, that pianist has MOVES. And the face on the mustachioed man! And the joke! I love cartoons. This one is perfect.
From the British Museum, drawings by the great Richard Dighton, best known (to me) as the artist of The Dandy Club.
Last year I read this article in the New York Times and it never left me, but it’s only one of many. Every time I come home there are new mansions. We will all feel differently about them. Themes of Cape Breton, home, culture and rural decline will happen in my comics again and again, that much we do know.
this Tuesday!! The last show before I move back to Canada. Though we may work something out.
Speaking of Game of Thrones- talking about the books, and seeing people talk about the books, I saw a lot of hate for these three characters, and so this set of videos was interesting to watch. I love Brienne, Asha, Arya etc also, super hard, but it was bothersome that the three main ‘traditional’ female characters often seemed so disliked. Not every lady can go swinging swords in that kind of world, and there sometimes seemed to be a lack of empathy or understanding of their position and choices, or what was available to them, or how their characters were shaped by their society, how they fought against convention in different ways. Anyway, I liked all these characters, as characters. Even if they are bad guys, Martin does such a great job of making them complex and interesting and great.
for fun, Beric Dondarrion from the George RR Martin books. Maybe I will draw more later. Warm up sketches!
for fun, Yrgitte from the George RR Martin books, I just finished them!
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
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I am sick! With what, we cannot tell. Maybe it is only an illusion, an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
But since we’re quoting left and right why don’t you take a stroll through this fascinating wiki page? The quote above always comes to mind when I’m ill, but not that one of course, the much more pithy variation “Either the wallpaper goes, or I do.”
I likes my Oscar as pithy as possible, I does.
