Vintage Radium-Tainted Tranfiguration Souvenir Card

"And Jesus was transfigured before them and his face did shine like the sun, and his raiment was white as the Light." - Matthew 17:2

My tireless pal Tim Caldwell sent me this vintage card. I'd already put it really close to my face to see if I could detect the glow, before taking it in the dark rest room with my UV lamp to photograph it. I didn't lick it, so I'm hoping the radium exposure doesn't give me some kind of face cancer. Click on the pictures to see them larger!

"Blue-Eyed Jew" ???

Larger-scan of that last image in my photobucket:
Click TransfigurationGlowCard-InsideScan-1000.jpg

1970 Blue-Collar Rest Room Sketch

Found this sketch in a book I bought at a resale a while back. I consider it folk-art. Some hard-working assembly-line guy took the time to sketch the inside of the rest room at the plant.

Click on image for bigger version, or even higher-resolution scan here:
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k153/urania235/1970PlantRestRoom1100.jpg

SATANIC HATRED!

Satan ESPECIALLY hates that lady with the cute little dog!

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SOME PEOPLE SAVE PRESSED FLOWERS ...

... I save 25 year old laminated cockroaches.

Ah, the nostalgia! Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; 1/8 Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division, US  Army. These were the some of the biggest roaches I'd ever seen in my life. Though, only slightly bigger than the ones at my last job before enlistment - Maintenance and security at a 15-floor urban nursing home on Woodward Ave. in Detroit called the Detroiter Residence.

Click on the images to see them in all their large detail - Enjoy!

DEVIL IN A DEAD MAN'S UNDERWEAR, UH HUH

DEVIL IN A DEAD MAN'S UNDERWEAR

UH HUH

Text: T.H. Metzger (1993)
http://www.zigguratlounge.blogspot.com/

Art: Roscoe 235
http://www.johnsontat.com

See the man, see the God.

Incarnation in progress.

Behold the man, beneath the God.

beware the dog, behind you.

Believe, begone, behave yourself.

Be there, or beware.

Behold: I sing of Spam.

Behold: I GIVE YOU SPAM!

Oblong can, silver crown,

rounded corners, mysterious key

without a lock

Spam-killing man, man-killing Spam.

Calling all gods.

Squeeze and drain the juices,

down the sink, blood and oil,

trouble and toil.

When will we three meet again?

In Power, Glory, or in Shame?

Spam! The god in a can.

Spam! Baal's big bad brother.

Spam! Fears no man, eats no ham,

does not give a flying goddamn.

I'm gonna put on the Iron Jock,

and chase Satan round the block.

I'm gonna put on the Iron Fez,

and see what Jahweh says.

Evil ones: Juju priests,

secret Levite order

Spam-killing men of God.

Evil ones: vegetarian Hecate-junge

black as a kite, high as night.

Evil ones: goated-headed Melchizedeks

with the hots for what's not.

I feel the heat, I sing of meat,

I long for that throbbing

luncheon treat.

Unspeakable effulgence of by-products.

Ancient Anathema Cannibal

Spastic God in a Can.

Eating meat, spodee-odee

eating meat.

it slices, it dices, it sacrifices,

Culture is dead. Let's eat!

I loved that pig, pink and big.

I loved that lamb, the son of Spam.

The Pearl without a price.

Drop him in acid

and he disappears.

That's right, pilgrim,

the Mighty Yamm has returned.

Say it proud: I'm back and I'm loud.

The Mighty Yamm and his little Lamb

are back for more

of that precious ore.

Digging deep into your mainline,

poking for your hidden vein.

I Yamm what I am and that's all

what I am.

the sweetest of potatoes,

the Uber-tuber,

the root of all evil.

Sleek and hard, throbbing lard,

smooth and strong, a mile long.

I sing of me,

a perfect gram of the holy I AM.

Devil in a dead man's underwear,

uh huh.

Devil got a dead man's underwear on his head.

He's the life of every party

He's a can of poison meat.

Let me introduce you to the

petty paraclete.

Devil in a dead man's underwear.

Uh huh. Uh huh.

The spirits of food dissolve

in my body - acid and rise

as foul vapors into my brain.

Hydrochloric acid, HCL.

The magic letters

an acid bath to cook the ores.

Reagent of pure love

Caustic kisses, candy bliss.

burning in the abdominal abyss.

My body is a bag of acid,

conversion chamber,

innermost lake of fire.

Have you been washed in the acid

of the Lamb?

Body bag, wanna feel you in my

Body bag, gotta seal you in a

Body bag, wanna touch you in my

Body bag, you're too much inside my

Body bag, Body bag.

My guts a blast furnace,

blessed Bessemer converter.

Hydrogen sulphide, methane

from my vent holes.

flaming nether retrobooster.

deep, deeper, deepest.

On your feet or on your knees,

in the grotto of my

favorite agonies.

The Church of Beautiful Women

Who Hate Sex.

The Church of Hitting Each Other

with Iron Rods and

Pretending to Like it.

The Church of Our Lady of

Perpetual Mastication.

The Church of Smearing Yourself

with Lard and Baking

Until Light Browned.

Owwwww! Brown off!

Victory in my pants.

Golden baby, preemie homunculus

appearing full formed in my BVDs.

Spam-whiz: aerosol processed

meat-food product

squirting out in nacreous jets.

I ain’t just whistling gristle.

Am I blue? You'd be too.

Spewing bones, gizzard, skin

and feather too.

Don't you know about the bird?

Everyone knows that the bird comes third.

Bird, bird, bird,

the irrational word.

Surd, surd, surd,

the irrational bird.

Everybody knows

that the word comes first.

In the beginning was

the bird dance beat

the word made meat

the dove in heat

Must I repeat?

We have met the enemy and he tastes

Like ham. Too damn salty.

I am what I am

goddamn, goddamn.

I am what I eat.

Black bran, the key bone,

fowls of the air special,

the creeping thing plate,

cloven hoof burger.

Body bag, wanna cook you in this

Body bag, who forsook you in this

Body bag, lost and found inside this

Body bag, break you down into a

Body bag, Body bag,

Seals in flavorful juices.

ziplock. Ziplock. ZIPLOCK.

Interesting Things I Find In Thrift-Store Books

"The Smoky God" is a 1908 science fiction / fantasy tale in the "Hollow Earth" vein. Inside this copy was an interesting autographed polaroid-style b&w photo:

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Curly Dan, Wilma Ann & the Danville Mountain Boys

* Originally from Clay, West Virginia. Moved to Detroit, Michigan and performed there for most of their career.
* Real names: Denslie and Wilma Ann Holcomb.
* Formed their band in 1955.
* One of the first bluegrass acts to perform and record in the Detroit area.
* Dan worked for the Chrysler Corporation.
* Carmen Flatt (second cousin of Lester Flatt) was a member of their band. (He died in 1993).
* Retired from performing in the early 1980's.

A few of their tracks can be heard on YouTube:

Curly Dan - I Flubbed My Dub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eESMLPBfEE0&feature=related

Curly Dan - You'll Be The One To Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8J-ER6K4LU

Curly Dan & Jim Maynard - You`ll Be The One To Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHGLAZgs4ms&feature=related

Here's the discographical info I could find online; Delighted to note they had 3 records on Detroit's obscure Fortune label. Note two interesting references to Michigan highway US23 - "North on 23" and "South on 23"

Fortune Records
196 - Curly Dan & Wilma and the Danville Mountain Boys: Sleep Darling / My Little Rose 1956
197 - Dan Curly And The Danville Mountain Trio: Sleep Darling / My Little Rose - 1956
228 - Curley Dan & Wilma Ann and the Danville Mt. Boys: North On 23 / I Don't See No Wings On You - 196?

Danville Label
102 Curly Dan, Wilma Ann & the Danville Mountain Boys: Mixed up life / I'd better drink up and go
103 Curly Dan, Wilma Ann & the Danville Mountain Boys: Beautiful memory / Live in peace
104 Curly Dan, Wilma Ann & the Danville Mountain Boys: I'm in heaven / I'm sorry if I'm crying    
105 Curly Dan, Wilma Ann & the Danville Mountain Boys: Teenage prayer / South on 23
106 Curly Dan, Wilma Ann & the Danville Mountain Boys: Just to hear them say you all / I hide the hurt


"THE SMOKY GOD" or A Voyage to the Inner World
1908 By Willis George Emerson
Text version of this book can be downloaded at Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3007

Author's Wikipedia info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_George_Emerson

"The Smoky God" is early science fiction / fantasy tale in the "Hollow Earth" vein. Here's an excerpt:

The great luminous cloud or ball of dull-red fire--fiery-red in the mornings and evenings, and during the day giving off a beautiful white light, "The Smoky God,"-- is seemingly suspended in the center of the great vacuum "within" the earth, and held to its place by the immutable law of gravitation, or a repellant atmospheric force, as the case may be. I refer to the known power that draws or repels with equal force in all directions.

The base of this electrical cloud or central luminary, the seat of the gods, is dark and non-transparent, save for innumerable small openings, seemingly in the bottom of the great support or altar of the Deity, upon which "The Smoky God" rests; and, the lights shining through these many openings twinkle at night in all their splendor, and seem to be stars, as natural as the stars we saw shining when in our home at Stockholm, excepting that they appear larger. "The Smoky God," therefore, with each daily revolution of the earth, appears to come up in the east and go down in the west, the same as does our sun on the external surface. In reality, the people "within" believe that "The Smoky God" is the throne of their Jehovah, and is stationary. The effect of night and day is, therefore, produced by the earth's daily rotation.

HOW TO GUARANTEE YOUR HOUSE WILL GET EGGED ON HALLOWEEN

Another tidbit from the Rev. Roscoe Dogbone's hoard of religious propaganda. Why give the kids candy when they come begging - when you can lure them to Jesus, instead? (click on them to see the full-sized scans)

Detroit Club Cards from the '70's

Digging deep into the archives of the Rev. Roscoe Dogbone, we come up with a stack of business-card sized advertising ephemera from Detroit. Urban archaeologist Tim Caldwell may have had something to do with placing these in the hands of the Blind Tattooist.

First,  a couple of religious cards. Top one is obviously an invitation to an event put on by the Rev. C.L. Franklin - (Aretha's father). An "Evening of Fun by the Black Professional Models." Wonder if they abbreviated that "BPM"? Also, New Black Christians (NBC?) put on a 70's tea-party with a "Demonic Possession" theme. Whoa!

 

 Next, two separate "Disco Cabaret" after-hours events. Top one is technically 1980, but check it out: "SPECIAL GUEST LADY TYRRELL THE SNAKE GODDESS PERFORMING WITH HER 10 FT. PET SNAKE" The Disco Cabaret on the card below is Deejayed by "The Black Mack" - he's got everything on the right track!

Two more; Top one is a card for a nice soul food joint. Bottom one mentions an entertainment feature called "The Streaker." Hmmm

Lastly, a VIP Card for Mr. Kelley's Lounge, granting the bearer "Special Consideration." I'm pretty sure this was a 70's GoGo club. The last card is "Pee Wee Private Club." Trying very hard not to make any Pee Wee Herman cracks here.