C.P. Horn
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Books, Philly, formerly "doginabikini"
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A friend & colleague of my father sent me this. When he started managing a box office 40+ years ago, he felt like he didn’t understand the entertainment business, so my dad made him this drawing, which he kept for his entire career, which eventually led to managing concert halls.
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A friend & colleague of my father sent me this. When he started managing a box office 40+ years ago, he felt like he didn’t understand the entertainment business, so my dad made him this drawing, which he kept for his entire career, which eventually led to managing concert halls.
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“In the faunal frenzy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, even serious naturalists competed with fabulists like Barnum for the attention of the public.”
Our latest piece in A Time Of Monsters, from Sam Moore.
Our latest piece in A Time Of Monsters, from Sam Moore.
Aaahh!!! Fake Monsters
exuberant life beyond our knowledge
contingentmagazine.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“In the faunal frenzy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, even serious naturalists competed with fabulists like Barnum for the attention of the public.”
Our latest piece in A Time Of Monsters, from Sam Moore.
Our latest piece in A Time Of Monsters, from Sam Moore.
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For those following the current threat to the First and Last Stop, a Black bar in a gentrifying neighborhood: here’s a similar threat to the same barroom from 125 years ago, quoted in the book Spectacular Wickedness by Emily Epstein Landau
thelensnola.org/2025/11/20/l...
thelensnola.org/2025/11/20/l...
![Another letter writer, from 1900, "respectfully call[s] your attention to the fact that there congregates at the Corner of Marais and Baguatelle [sic, now Pauger] Sts. a crowd of disreputable negroes in front of a 'bar room' located there where it is very embarrassing for ladies and children to pass, as they gamble on the sidewalk, and use the vilest language imaginable. ..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ahlcryt4sdzkb6bgip5npmmi/bafkreihpk4dsbeuu4fqtgh2uf4wmf6bn2klsqrhx5322qlzo63xuc7adzq@jpeg)
December 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
For those following the current threat to the First and Last Stop, a Black bar in a gentrifying neighborhood: here’s a similar threat to the same barroom from 125 years ago, quoted in the book Spectacular Wickedness by Emily Epstein Landau
thelensnola.org/2025/11/20/l...
thelensnola.org/2025/11/20/l...
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Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
Intertapes — Main
Obscure tape finds and their stories
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
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fuller quinces, painted by bertha heiges, 1897
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
fuller quinces, painted by bertha heiges, 1897
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MUPPET WICKER MAN (Brian Henson, 1993)
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
March 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
MUPPET WICKER MAN (Brian Henson, 1993)
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
Police Sergeant Kermie travels to the isolated town of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. He finds the locals to be a surly and suspicious lot, rustic practitioners of crude bawdiness and Celtic neo-paganism. Starring Vincent Price as Lord Summerisle.
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Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
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"The Sausage Cellar," a very short fiction by Henri Michaux biblioklept.org/2025/12/09/t...
“The Sausage Cellar,” a very short fiction by Henri Michaux
“The Sausage Cellar” by Henri Michaux translated by David Ball from Life in the Folds I love to knead. I get hold of a field marshal and grind him up so fine that he loses half his sens…
biblioklept.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"The Sausage Cellar," a very short fiction by Henri Michaux biblioklept.org/2025/12/09/t...
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It's nice when someone else writes the article you kind of wanted to write but didn't have the knowledge or research-energy to tackle: on paintings containing a bunch of other paintings
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private cur...
publicdomainreview.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It's nice when someone else writes the article you kind of wanted to write but didn't have the knowledge or research-energy to tackle: on paintings containing a bunch of other paintings
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
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Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
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"Having looked at some deaths of MPs involving vegetables ..." is an unimprovable line
Death by turnip remains one of the History's most bizarre reasons for carrying off a member of Parliament.
T in our #1832AtoZ is for Turnip and also for Tiger, both of which had fatal consequences in incidents involving our Victorian MPs. Find out more here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/b...
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"Having looked at some deaths of MPs involving vegetables ..." is an unimprovable line
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The actual hot take because it’s not glamorizing the surveillance state and monetizing/making content out of every one of our actions.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The actual hot take because it’s not glamorizing the surveillance state and monetizing/making content out of every one of our actions.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
WE LOVE OUR PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
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Most citrus fruits are situated as flying objects in the orbit around a human-made landscape ...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Most citrus fruits are situated as flying objects in the orbit around a human-made landscape ...
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Pierre Bonnard, Basket of Fruit Reflected in a Mirror, c. 1944-46
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135179
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135179
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Pierre Bonnard, Basket of Fruit Reflected in a Mirror, c. 1944-46
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135179
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135179
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The Lissava Dolmen • Tipperary
You can find this portal tomb hidden away in Scaragh Wood, close to the town of Cahir in South Tipperary.
Based on excavated examples, it likely dates to the earlier to middle part of the Neolithic period, making it around 5,500 years old.
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland
You can find this portal tomb hidden away in Scaragh Wood, close to the town of Cahir in South Tipperary.
Based on excavated examples, it likely dates to the earlier to middle part of the Neolithic period, making it around 5,500 years old.
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Lissava Dolmen • Tipperary
You can find this portal tomb hidden away in Scaragh Wood, close to the town of Cahir in South Tipperary.
Based on excavated examples, it likely dates to the earlier to middle part of the Neolithic period, making it around 5,500 years old.
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland
You can find this portal tomb hidden away in Scaragh Wood, close to the town of Cahir in South Tipperary.
Based on excavated examples, it likely dates to the earlier to middle part of the Neolithic period, making it around 5,500 years old.
#SpéirGhorm #Ireland
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‘In 1904, in one twelve-hour period, observers recorded 2582 omnibuses, 1285 hansom cabs, 790 trade vehicles, 286 four-wheelers, 228 bicycles, 112 carriages and 93 barrows passing along the Strand.’
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a history of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a history of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ysenda Maxtone Graham · Busiest Thoroughfare of the Metropolis of the World: The Strand
After reading Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin’s concise history of the Strand, you will never walk down that street...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
‘In 1904, in one twelve-hour period, observers recorded 2582 omnibuses, 1285 hansom cabs, 790 trade vehicles, 286 four-wheelers, 228 bicycles, 112 carriages and 93 barrows passing along the Strand.’
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a history of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a history of the London street.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“That the past and the future may become contemporary within a being—this is the possibility that reading books offers.”
— Pascal Quignard, Petits traités II
— Pascal Quignard, Petits traités II
December 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“That the past and the future may become contemporary within a being—this is the possibility that reading books offers.”
— Pascal Quignard, Petits traités II
— Pascal Quignard, Petits traités II
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Today is World AIDS Day, remembering all those we have lost, thinking of all those living with HIV.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Today is World AIDS Day, remembering all those we have lost, thinking of all those living with HIV.
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John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
September 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
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Fairfield Porter, Schwenk, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135060
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135060
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Fairfield Porter, Schwenk, 1959
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135060
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135060
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"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. 🛍️ The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash.
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. 🛍️ The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash.
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events.
📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac...
#BlackFriday
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Een Toorts als muurplant.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Een Toorts als muurplant.
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RIP Udo Kier
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
RIP Udo Kier
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’
‘I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.’