Jim Linderman announces Dull Tool Dim Bulb DOT COM

›
DULL TOOL DIM BULB Building for the Future, a solid chunk of cyber-cement! Continue following blogs as usual. The new website is a directory...

Mohave Indian Ronald Jones Murders John Lee Stokes Witch Doctor 1937. An Incomplete Story

›
An extraordinary story I wish I knew more about. Press photos here from 1937 show Ronald Jones, age 37, a Mohave Indian (or member of the Y...

The OTHER Bob Dylan Christmas Album (!)

›
In the mid-1970's, around the time of Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album, tape traders and fans of bootleg records such as the Baseme...
4 comments:

At the Circus in Black and White

›
"Pop's Midget Friends" on reverse Snapshot c. 1940 Collection Jim Linderman See Also THE WONDROUS WORLD OF FRANK WENDT

"Real-Pen" Bible Calligraphy Salesman Sample

›
A "Specimen Page" from the Pen-Art book Bible Pearls of Promise published in 1887. I have also included the corresponding page fr...

Peruna and the 50 Million Dollar Art Endowment

›
Peruna was a prohibition tonic. Otherwise known as booze. It was 28% alcohol, that's a pretty stiff drink. At one time the elixir was b...
2 comments:

Eugene Bilbrew A Return Visit to the Studio on West 42nd Street

›
Of all the posts on this blog, the ones generating the most hits are the series I did on vintage sleaze illustrators of the 1960's, in ...
5 comments:

Silhouette Parade (and a Shout Out to John)

›
Circus Parade by Flanagan, c. 1920 Collection Jim Linderman
2 comments:

The Art of Old Time Religion

›
To say the least, the use of Christian religious iconography in a sincere manner has not been the stuff of contemporary artists or art colle...
2 comments:

Photos from Paste Magazine Review of Take Me to the Water

›
Untitled (Baptism) Collection International Center of Photography, gift of Janna Rosenkranz and Jim Linderman 2007 HERE

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together

›
The unfamiliar jargon and sheer multitude of options is overwhelming. Ombre, cordet, guimpe, organdy? Velvanna, nubby, sport fingering, woo...
3 comments:

At the Circus in Black and White

›
In the tradition of F. W. Glasier, Dull Tool Dim Bulb incorporates a new mini-series, "At the Circus in Black and White" I wil...
2 comments:

J. Charles Jessup, Convicted Preacher with a Triple-neck Mosrite guitar

›
Charles Jessup was married to a 15 year old girl while still married to his third wife. Rev. Jessup was a border radio fixture for ye...
18 comments:

Things to Build

›
Images from The Family Fallout Shelter June 1959 Collection Jim Linderman
1 comment:

Look Up

›
Chalk Drawing by William A. Bixler 1933 See also old time religion
3 comments:

Time to Bring in the Big Guns (Meet the Press)

›
Original Glossy Press Photograph 1953 Collection Jim Linderman
1 comment:

Bazooka Joe and the Tijuana Bible Eight Pagers (You're kidding, right?) NOPE

›
Wesley Morse created Bazooka Joe. Joe and his gang started about the same year I started, and every one of the bonus fortunes came true! B...
5 comments: