Hagen and the mermaids.
William Brown Macdougall, from The fall of the Nibelungs, by Margaret Armour, London, 1897.
(Source: archive.org)
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oldbookillustrations: Hagen and the mermaids. William Brown...
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davidajohnsonart: “That which does not kill us makes us...
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gravesandghouls: Ella Raines c. 1945
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thisbelongsinamuseum: Skulls Unlimited is not the name of the...
Skulls Unlimited is not the name of the newest, coolest band; it’s the world’s largest supplier of bone specimens to museums and medical colleges…and to little old you. Hey, if you want to buy a one-of-a-kind reptile skeleton, that’s none of my business. It’s your money! Anyway, right next door to the skull business in Oklahoma City is the Museum of Osteology, America’s only skeleton museum. With 300 skeletons and 400 skulls on display, this place is, like, a big boner for people who dig bones. If you were wondering how tasty meat is removed from carcasses and corpses, near the museum entrance are aquariums full of flesh-eating beetles inside of skulls. Yum! Other collection highlights include a reassembled 40-foot-long humpback whale, a Komodo Dragon, five two-headed calves and the skull of the nearly extinct Javan rhinoceros. Well, I think we can all agree this museum has a few skeletons in its closet. I know. Bad joke. Sorry!
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Happy Birthday Miss Hayworth!
Happy Birthday Miss Hayworth!
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Members of the Vehmgericht or Judges of the Secret Court, of...
Members of the Vehmgericht or Judges of the Secret Court, of Westphalia, who have just hanged one of their victims from a tree.
The Vehm were rumored to have had lasted as late as the 19th Century, and reputedly was the historical model for Paul Joseph Goebbels when he designed the political terrorist group the Der Wehrwolf.
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"Curiously enough, I greatly dislike the common American dirty stories, and avoid the men who tell..."
“Curiously enough, I greatly dislike the common American dirty stories, and avoid the men who tell them habitually. They seem dull to me. I love the obscene, but it must have wit in it.”
- Henry Louis Mencken
- Henry Louis Mencken
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"Most human interaction, being nothing more than small talk and games, is no waste of time to those..."
“Most human interaction, being nothing more than small talk and games, is no waste of time to those so engaged. It is, in fact, necessary to their survival, for they would die of boredom otherwise. To the Maker, the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existence: time. Time is spent in “being liked” could better be devoted to liking being.”
- Anton Szandor LaVey (via culturewithagrainofassualt)
- Anton Szandor LaVey (via culturewithagrainofassualt)
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This Weeks Installment of “I Hate”
This weeks installment/rant is about hating on people who want to further themselves through reading, and do so while in public.
This quote started it:
“People who read books in public places are regarded with suspicion because they appear self-sufficient. When you seem self-sufficient, other people think that you think you’re better than them, and they get resentful.” — Jessica Zafra, Chicken Pox for the Soul (via bookmania) by way of this blog
It really upsets me (amongst a metric shit-tonne of other crap) that in this day in age, people are still looking at others who want to better themselves with suspicion. We live in a golden age where information that was once only to be used by Royalty, Papacy, and other “elite” groups is now at our fingertips.
I’ve even over heard some meat-head (in the most contumacious manner mind you) say: “I don’t know why pretty girls bother reading, nobody will take them serious outside of wanting to bang them.”
This is what we have as so called civilized come to…still hating those who have knowledge, hating those who might know something you don’t, still sexist (yes even women can be sexist) to the point that a person who is well read, intelligent and thought provoking is not considered to be attractive.
So here is your 15 minutes of fame Mr. Douche-bag sexist, illiterate idiot, you might have thought that was a funny statement…but you’re mistaken. I hope the poor woman who takes your hand in marriage cuts your dick off with a butter-knife, ties you to the bed and sets you along with the house on fire.
And for those other who love reading, and do it every chance they get no matter where the location, here’s to you! May your mind be enlightened, may your information propel you to new heights and my you be blessed in whatever endeavor it is you have. You’re not alone, and you have quiet admirers.
Signed,
Michael A. Kalb.
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babiesareyum: Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire in the...
Melted and damaged mannequins after a fire in the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum in London, 1930.
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nevver: H. P. Lovecraft
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A photo of HP Lovecraft with his friend Arthur...
A photo of HP Lovecraft with his friend Arthur Goodenough.
Mythology was my life-blood then, and I really almost believed in the Greek and Roman deities - fancying I could glimpse fauns and satyrs and dryads at twilight in those oaken groves where I am sitting now. When I was about 7 years old, my mythological fancy made me wish to be - not merely to see - a faun or a satyr. I used to try to imagine that the tops of my ears were beginning to get pointed, and that a trace of incipient horns was beginning to appear on my forehead - and bitterly lamented the fact that my feet were rather slow in turning into hooves! Of all young heathen, I was the most unregenerate. Sunday school - to which I was sent when five - made no impression on me; (though I loved the old Georgian grace of my mother’s hereditary church, the stately First Baptist, built in 1775) and I shocked everybody with my pagan utterances - at first calling myself a Mohammedan and then a Roman pagan. I actually built woodland alters to Pan, Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, and sacrificed small objects amidst the odour of incense. When, a little later, I was forced by scientific reasoning to discard my childish paganism, I was to become an absolute atheist and materialist. I have since given much attention to philosophy, and find no valid reason for any belief in any form of the so-called spiritual or supernatural.-Howard Philips Lovecraft
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Time to watch Onibaba!
Time to watch Onibaba!
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culturewithagrainofassualt: BOOK AND RIFLE CLUBThis high...
BOOK AND RIFLE CLUB
This high quality shirt is the collaboration between Underworld Amusement’s Kevin I. Slaughter and ASP Apparel’s Ashley Palmer. This and other high quality garments and accessories can be purchased through ASP Apparel.
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ghost-of-gold: German Weapons of WWII Machinengewehr 34...
German Weapons of WWII
Machinengewehr 34 (MG34)
Gewehr 43 (G43)
Karabiner K98k (K98)
Sturmgewehr 44 (StG44)
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ghost-of-gold: FG.42 44 (FG.42) Year Built: 1944-1945 Calibre:...
FG.42 44 (FG.42)
- Year Built: 1944-1945
- Calibre: 7.92x57mm
- Load: 20 rounds / Magazine fed
- Action: Semi / Fully-Automatic, Recoil operated, Air Cooled
- Rate of Fire: 900rpm early model / 600 rpm
- Weight: 4,2 kg early model / 5 kg late model
The FG-42 (Fallschirmjägergewehr-42 or Paratrooper’s rifle, Model 1942) is a light and powerful weapon, specifically designed for German airborne soldiers. The paratroopers were an elite unit of German armed forces and belonged to the Luftwaffe. Paratroopers usually operate far from home bases and had to have all their firepower at hand. The Luftwaffe issued the request for universal hand held weapon, intended to replace the bolt-action rifles, submachine guns and machine guns then in service. The design specifications were for a selective fire, lightweight rifle, firing the standard issue 7.92x57mm ammunition, and capable of controllable full automatic fire, as well as accurate single shot semi-automatic fire.
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And now a word from Kevin I. Slaughter of Underworld...
And now a word from Kevin I. Slaughter of Underworld Amusements…
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Resurgent-Ativisim or an accident?
Resurgent-Ativisim or an accident?
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