Saturday, December 31, 2022

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 CaƱon 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)

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Night Flight

 


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

Zoologie. Arachnides. EpĆ©ĆÆres, Clothos, Latrodectes, Pholques.

 


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

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

Description de l'Ɖgypte: ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont Ć©tĆ© faites en Ɖgypte pendant l'expĆ©dition de l'armĆ©e franƧaise

Histoire naturelle

Description de l'Ɖgypte, ... Histoire naturelle. Planches. Tome premiĆØre. [Vol. 1]

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

Spider-webs

 


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

 


Quiet, Please - Berlin, 1945

 


Sunday, December 25, 2022

"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


 

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

Friday, December 23, 2022

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