The Masked Connoisseur

Asaf Avidan - Unfurling Dream YouTube video by Asaf Avidan

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The Butler is now properly drunk and says #YOLO is a lie.
Please send us your #DeathDay tune.
It's a celebration!

There's been many brought back to life.
There's even Happy #DeathDay cards.
Blow on that! 🕯 🕯 🕯

Asaf Avidan - In A Box III - Rock of Lazarus YouTube video by Asaf Avidan

During CPR ribs were broken, every press the sound of cornflakes.
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My Butler died three years ago today,
after an hour he decided death wasn't for him.
Today we celebrate that decision. 🎉 #DeathDay
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Despite my advanced age there are certain things that I still find to be bracing.

Carmen Hitherknee

Display window of the Army-Navy Surplus.

"There are actresses who want to stick to one certain way, and there are actors like me who want to do a bunch of different characters. Don't fence me in! Don't lock me down! I want to do different things! I don't know who I am!"

Catherine O'Hara, born 4 March 1954.

'Ridiculously Easy to Use' Bizarre if a tad disturbing vintage advert for Timex wristwatches.

1980s Panasonic commercial from Japan featuring a teenage Jennifer Connelly and a Keith Haring mural.

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Patterns left by woodworms on driftwood — sab3rtooth
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It’s going to be globe related posts for the next few days. I visited the Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library. They’ve over 250 globes on display, the oldest dating to 1536. These first 2 were made by Vincenzo Coronelli, whose artistic style helped make globes decorative symbols of wealth

Nico

Penny Slinger

“When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.”

-Lee Radziwill #BOTD

Jean Harlow - BOTD

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— Abbey Gardens, Malmesbury
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Vintage bumper cars

Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is a poet.

René Magritte, The Blank Signature, 1965

The unorthodox taxidermy of Dr Seuss #BOTD

Desi Arnez #BOTD with Lucille Ball and Tallulah Bankhead

Gloria Walker 1956 by Don Bronstein

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story by Todd Haynes (1987)

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