The Ventriloquist who refused to be a Stripper

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Here is a sordid little tale from the annals of talking dummys. According to the information on the reverse of this press photograph from 1...
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Handmade Book of Crap! The Homemade Book of Useful Information

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A homemade trove of useful useless information! Constructed by an eccentric somebody from Cleveland around 1920, there are nearly 50 pages ...
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The Invention of the Dashboard Camera Art Crime and Photography

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By Jim Linderman from Dull Tool Dim Bulb The mounted dashboard camera, as we all know from “America’s most horrible ru...

Black Herman and Robert Johnson Hoodoo Voodoo Mumbo Jumbo Magic Spells Charms Death and the Grave

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Robert Johnson would have been 102  today, some say. Johnson's music was seeped in voodoo, hoodoo, black magic, spells, charms and...

Make-Do Love Coloring Book "Value Added" Pulp

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A Make-do coloring book created from a "Love Fiction Monthly" pulp magazine from July 1942. Every lip quivering story has been e...
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Robert Frank, Photographer (But Filmmaker) The Rolling Stones, Exile, Drugs, Law, Art

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AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS and the 100 Million Dollar Picasso

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You know, the recent record-breaking sale of Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" has me thinking about investing in art, s...
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Jefferson Machamer Teacher, Girly Gag Artist, Cartoonist

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A funny and talented man, Jefferson Machamer was that rare comic artist who was not only a fine gag, gam and garter artist...he was succes...
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Monster Sighted in Duluth Minnesota

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Prize Winning Float Duluth, MN Anonymous photograph Dated 1926 Collection Jim Linderman
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Diana Korzenik Andy Warhol and the Objects which Help Children Become Artists

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A while ago I posted a theory of mine on a possible childhood influence on Andy Warhol with some striking implications for students, resear...
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Convoluted Postcard! Drugstore Cowboy, Tad Dorgan, Las Vegas Kim, Gus Van Zant, James Fogle and the Great Train Robbery (Whew!)

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A "Drugstore Cowboy" was a loafer in slicked-up in cowboy duds who hung around trying to pick up women. Decades later, Gus Van Za...
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Jim Linderman "Writer to Watch Out For" by ARTslant

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ARTslant has featured my posts and selected me as "one of the blog writers to watch for" Nice! ARTslant on Facebook HERE My fea...
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Doctors Drawings 19th Century Milford Michigan Medical Notebook

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Pages and illustrations from a Doctor's Notebook, circa 1890. Milford, Michigan Collection Jim Linderman

Photograph Manipulation When Pictures Lie (ALWAYS) The Art of Painting a Photograph

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(Click to Enlarge) It is a very short walk from enhancement to deception. I suppose manipulating photographs (and by extension, the masses) ...
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Moves Which Killed the Cat

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(Quite a few folks have enjoyed this post on my Vintage Sleaze blog , so I am repeating it here. I've only watched the first two mi...

School Brain Cultivating and Hide Tanning Vernacular Photograph

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Handwritten photograph, Date Unknown, Anonymous Collection Jim Linderman
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Joni Mitchell S.T.F.U.

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Okay, because of that warbling waif Joni Mitchell, once again the ridiculous claim that Bob Dylan is a plagiarist returns. Joni Mitchell......
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