The comet is coming

 

Your beauty is beyond compare. With flaming locks of auburn hair. With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green. Your smile is like a breath of spring. Your voice is soft like summer rain. And I cannot compete with you, Jolene

Midnight is where the day begins

 

This Monkey's Gone to Heaven

 

No. 16. Head of Cañon de Chelle [Chelly], looking down.

 

Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905 (Surveyor)

Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) (Creator)

O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882 (Photographer)

Photographs showing landscapes, geological and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, seasons of 1871, 1872 and 1873

Date Issued: 1873 (Approximate)

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-8473-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Royal Navy Sea Slug in action.

 

Into space : A series of 25 ("Mills" Filtertips)

Birthday sunset

 

Pine-hawk moth & larva.

 

Butterflies and moths (Adkin's Cigarettes)

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-63e1-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Night Flight

 

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. New Year. 

Zoologie. Arachnides. Epéïres, Clothos, Latrodectes, Pholques.

 

1809. Jomard, M. (Edme-François), 1777-1862 (Editor)

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 (Associated name)

Description de l'Égypte: ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française

Histoire naturelle

Description de l'Égypte, ... Histoire naturelle. Planches. Tome première. [Vol. 1]

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-bdff-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Spider-webs

 

• Print shows sailing ship with reflections on water.
• Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966, photographer
• 1908.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675021/
  

Svengoolie: Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

 

Directed by Bert I. Gordon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Spider

https://trailersfromhell.com/the-spider/

https://scenesfromthemorgue.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/50-tons-of-creeping-black-horror-april-1959/

https://www.zomboscloset.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/2017/02/the-spider-1958-pressbook.html

- Pressbook.

WHERE THE HOTELS TOWER ABOVE THE BEACH

 

Everything dies, baby, that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back. Put your makeup on. Fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City.

[Michigan Central] Cantilever Bridge

 

• Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer
• [between 1880 and 1897]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016797482/
  

Quiet, Please - Berlin, 1945

 

Baltimore, Maryland. Parking space

 

• Collins, Marjory, 1912-1985, photographer
• 1943 Apr.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017849690/
  

The Mad Magazine Board Game - 1979

 

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1604/mad-magazine-game

"The Winner Takes It All" - ABBA (1980)

 

We are spirits in the material world

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

Does any one know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her

 

Midway and carnival, Shelby County Fair and Horse Show, Shelbyville, Kentucky

 

• Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
• 1940 Aug.?
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017756662/
  

Chemistry of combustion and illumination: structure of flame, plate XI

 

Chemical atlas

Date Issued: 1855

Place: New York

Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ef3ddb20-56ec-013a-c613-0242ac110004

ABC Sunday night promo 1978

 

"My Favorite Things" - John Coltrane (1961)

 

"Over My Head" - Fleetwood Mac (1975)

 

"The Blood" -The Cure (1985)

 

"Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" - Sufjan Stevens (2005)

 

Vorant II

 

• Johnston, J. S. (John S.), photographer
• Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
• 1892 July 9.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2016813497/
  

The Final Programme

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070289/

1. Cinnamon Heron, Ardea cinnamonea; 1. Yellow necked Heron, Ardea flavicollis.

 

Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875 (Creator)

Illustrations of Indian zoology: chiefly ... from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke ...

Date Issued: 1830 - 1834

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-9f5c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Rain sculpture, Salt Creek Cañon, Utah. Geological Series. No. 49.

 

Bell, William, 1830-1910 (Photographer)

Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905 (Surveyor)

United States. War Department (Publisher)

Photographs of geological formations and Western landscapes

Date Created: 1872

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-849d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Space ship.

 

Into space : A series of 25 ("Mills" Filtertips)

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-e4da-d471-e040-e00a180654d7

Ice

 

12/23/22 Cold

 

https://www.weathercentral.com/weather/us/maps/current-temperatures

20 here currently in South Louisiana. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/23/us-weather-bomb-cyclone-us-christmas-latest

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-bomb-cyclone-winter-storm-weather-explained/

Common dagger moth and larva.

 

Butterflies and moths (Adkin's Cigarettes)

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-63df-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Night Flight

 

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. Xmas.

Svengoolie: Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbott_and_Costello_Meet_the_Invisible_Man

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/66687/abbott-and-costello-meet-the-invisible-man#articles-reviews?articleId=78357

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/12143

https://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2918

https://www.zomboscloset.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/2018/04/abbott-and-costello-meet-the-invisible-man-1951-mexican-lobby-card.html

"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd (1975)

Bridge over the Cascadilla

 c1900.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016801281/

Escape - Conquest

 

Motoring tourists homecoming, Arcadia, Fla., Jan. 4-10, 1932

 

• 
  
• Ericson, O. T., photographer
• 1932 January.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660760/
  

Mattel Electronics Pocket Football Commercial (1979)/Mattel Electronics Basketball Commercial (1978)

 

This football game was what I got for Christmas that year.

https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/FB.htm

Midway and carnival at Shelby County Fair and Horse Show Shelbyville, Kentucky

 

• Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
• 1940 Aug.?
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2017756856/
  

[U.S. Pavilion Agriculture & Trade, New Delhi, India]. [Exterior]. [Gilded domes above planters and pool]

 

• Balthazar Korab Studios, Ltd., photographer
• Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986, architect
• [1959]
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2021637353/
  

WOR 9 promo The Saint 1984

 

"This Big Hush" - Shriekback (1985)