WET Magazine - the magazine of "Gourmet Bathing and Beyond"
Presented at the link in the cover image below.

One of the coolest things is the head-to-head comparison interviews of John Lydon versus David Lee Roth. Guess who wins, cool people?

Plus an Ed Ruscha article. Pass the ketchup.....and gunpowder.

Cool ads, too.

Also:
Kissing
Japanese love hotels
Brian Wilson ready to dive
Xerox abuse

Let the page load - it's about 7 megs (I'm guessing.) 80 pages

Also, this being an Assload of work, be sure not to comment- I'm getting a jump on '07 being edification-free.

Labels: bathing, Ed Ruscha, Japan, John Lydon, Los Angeles, WET magazine

Every Scotsman will say, "aye"

LARGE image link at picture below..

Labels: bluebell, matches, Scotland, Scots, Scottish

Wallpaper at image below.

My daughter makes homemade Christmas crackers, and this was from the box of a teeny-tiny deck of cards that was a prize inside one.

Labels: 1024x768, cards, Christmas crackers, joker, wallpaper

My daughter made these for her mother, an avid roller. They are Katamari Damacy earrings. The Prince, represented by the green cylinder bead at the bottom, is rolling his Katamari towards other objects.



She also took the care to create a special little Myntz-case-based presentation case.

Labels: earrings, gifts, jewelry, Katamari Damacy, prince

Stocking Stuffers.

Labels: Christmas, jerky, kippers, surf and turf stocking stuffer

At least as old as me.


Actual working comic 1.5"


Actual non working 45RPM 2"


By Corning, NY artisans

This one's a wallpaper (pic @ link)


Fruit & Veg






Eastern





Santae:






Boids:
This first one- maybe 100 yrs old.





Critters:






Spheres & Heads:







mmmmmmm........minimalist!



Other:

Labels: ape, caliph, comics, corning, flamingo, head, monkey, ornaments, pansy, pear, pickle, pyramid, rat, rose, santa claus, sphere, squirrel, swan, turnip, woodpecker

I've had this clear vinyl Rhino Punk Christmas Tree shaped record since the dawn of CDs. And because of the dawn of CDs I bought a Kenwood linear tracking turntable (because it behaved like a CD player) that won't play the second track of this EP on either side all the way through.



The pressing always sucked, but thanks to Audacity it has been rendered pretty listenable.



First Xmas cut: The Ravers - Punk Rock Christmas 3:32


Second cut: The Dragons - Silent Night 2:56


Have a good Holiday from Lex10 here at GlyphJockey.

Labels: audacity, Christmas, Christmas Tree, clear, ep, green, punk, record, rhino, vinyl

butts:



One of two electronic dolls that seem to be everywhere:

Labels: butts, Christmas, doll, flea market, toy, xmas

We had a spectacular tree- a pendulous pine about forty feet high.



It was killed by drought, root compression, carpenter ants and shot borer.



The crew I hired brought a giant bucket truck



The operator had to avoid hiiting the powerlines to the house.




The cutting began.



They brought a chipper - or as I call it-


a "widowermaker" to consolidate the fallen branches.



I don't know why it was clled Chuck, but they explained to me they had to pay a competitor to chip the bigger logs, and then the competitor sold the chips as mulch, making money twice off the deal.



Here's the tree stump frowning - so sad. I fed this tree, watered it and pursued the invading insects as best I could. One day, there were zero needles anymore.



They gound the stump as part of the deal. I dunno why but the stump grinder was named after a 17th century Dutch painter - Jan Vermeer


Carpenter ant damage:



Feats of strength were performed by the crew.

Labels: branches, carpenter ant, crew, damage, glyphjockey, pine, removal, shot borer, stump, tree, wood chipper

Labels: breakfast, coffee, delicious, eggs, english muffin, fork, knife, mystery, napkin, orange juice, plate, poop, potatoes, sausage, tablecloth

Jules 047 returns with a special Christmas message for GlyphJockey fans from the book of Ezekiel.




Merry Christmas - consider this my card to you!!

Labels: Christmas, ezekiel, glyphjockey, ho, Jules, robot, tarantino, theatre, xmas

Saw this in Spanish years ago in the middle of the night, & wondered what the hell was going on. Ultra-compelling imagery - couldn't stop watching. We've talked about it every Christmas since. Now I'll be able to find out what's the deal.



Really wicked looking devil, machines with human lips, resourceful kids, and wild sets. I cannot friggin' wait!

Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
Part 5:
Part 666:
Part 7:
Part 8:
Part 9:

Labels: boys, Christmas, devil, funny, girls, glyphjockey, kids, Mexican, mexico, moreno, santa, satanists, wonder

I swear I really have no interest in poop, other than it's successful exit from my person regularly.

However when Mrs. Lex10 pointed this out to me, I knew I had that type of hard-hitting blog reporting that everyone who stops in thirsts for.

This first image shows my little pond out back (taken last night) home to ~2+ frogs along with several goldfish who managed to mature and/or reproduce before they were to big to eat.

The red arrow points to a broken half planter that is meant to look like a submerged ruin, and serves as a perch for the frogs and a hiding place (underneath) for both the frogs and the fish. It is surrounded by water 360 degrees.



Next images: the poop in question. From the looks of it, mammalian. Size appropriate for a large cat or medium dog.


HOW DID IT GET THERE?
Did the animal perch at the edge of the pond making a direct hit on the planter? If a kitty, did it climb onto the planter, seeking to evacuate? What?!?! How?!?!

And more importantly, why in such an improbable location? Why?

Next image: Doodle bugs, wood lice or pill bugs - I don't care what you call them - why are THEY there?!?! Do they eat poop? Do they swim? Why aren't they buried under something? Again I say: What?!?! How?!?! Why?!?!



OK- Wikipedia says they have gills- but I've never seen one swim. They eat decaying matter - but they don't appear to be swarming the poop - more like just coincidentally there......

Sharing=caring.

Labels: Armadillidium, cat, evacuate, glyphjockey, hot dogs, how, mystery, night, pill bug, planter, pond, poop, what, why

happy birthday to me
happy birthday to me
happy birthday, Lex 10 author of GlyphJockey,
happy birthday to me

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Labels: author, birthday, comments, lex10, no comments, rabbit, www.glyphjockey.com

at 3

17 years later - the birthday boy

Why is he the way he is?

Also a brief history of him thumbs-upping

now


His cool girlfriend gave him this incongruous piece of modern ephemera-


Happy Birthday, lad.

Labels: 20, 3, birthday, bread man, ephemera, glyphjockey, lex11, lighting frame, puke, son, thumbs up

The image of the camel with the bomb really felt weird to watch with troops in Iraq getting the same treatment. But, whaddyaget when Frank Capra, Mel Blanc, Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eatsman ("Go Dog, Go!"), Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones and Friz Freling are all collaborating at Leon Schlesinger's Warner Brothers Animation Studio in order to save American lives? Private Snafu Here's where to download these. Also available at YouTube & Google Video Wikipedia Entry

Labels: Arab, bomb, booby trap, Carl Stalling, cartoon, Dr.Seuss, harem, Mel Blanc, North Africa, Private Snafu, Warner Brothers, WWII

Don't know how old this book is, I bought it for the illustrations, from a used bookseller I used to go see, an old communist in Egg Harbor- he had a real treasure trove and was always fair. There are links to larger images at each of the images below. This is an advertising piece that would never fly today- a kid's story with booze as the treasure.

Ali Baba or the 40 Thieves



Inside front cover: protagonist + distinguished/venerated hooch.



A brave tailor named Ali Baba lived another time in a small town in Persia........



Note the parsing of syllables for young readers.


Translation of caption: "After entering the cave he found a collection of elegant bottles..."
The treasure he found was the fascinatingly historied Benedictine


Caption translated" "He was surprised by the thieves and massacred (accosted?) by them."
Some mauvais-âne lookin' thieves alrighty...


Foul play against the foul


Trans: "He found the carefully hidden secret of Benedictine."
Only 3 people at any time are allowed to know its secret recipe..hence the smug look.


Inside back cover - view of the distillery. The big one is very nice..


Ali Baba finally gets to chill with his cache of Benedictine & Persian pals.

Labels: 40 thieves, ali baba, benedictine, booklet, brandy, cave, children, cognac, DOM, Egg Harbor, France, French, http://www.glyphjockey.com/glyphblog.html, illustration, Persia, persian, story, used books

Here's the house - this is kinda light (no pun intended) compared to recent years. 1024x768 image at picture link.

Labels: chez lex10, Christmas, cold, color, house centipede, lights, picture, xmas

A: They're all in the December 14th Issue of Rolling Stone!



Yes I AM bragging........sorry.
Thanks to everybody who came to visit.

Labels: animation, glyphjockey, magazine, press, print, pulp fiction, robot, rolling stone, snoop dogg, tarantino, tenacious d, theatre, video

Here's what I want to say about this:

I live near a flea market called Cowtown (Previous posts here, here and here) which also hosts from May-Sept the only regular rodeo in NJ, complete with PETA protesters, a Grand Parade, and 12-pack drinkin' divorcee' dads.

Anyway, Cowtown is a flea market on Tuesdays and Saturdays. On Saturdays, it's less of an antique/collectable venue and more of a crap/knockoff sale. There are a lot of Korean and Chinese vendors, but the most interesting are the Andean vendors. I say Andean because they can be from multiple locations in S.A., but they inevitably sell really rustic knitted gear, and handicrafts from that region (like pan pipes and bracelets that say stuff like "Quito"). On spring days Andean musicians will play, and the atmosphere becomes really prosaic, with catfish frying across from tacos mojados and boxes upon boxes of items that look like they came from a parallel universe.

Well, as it turns out, many of these vendors sell, by virtue of a common language to the Mexican members of the community, providing them with stuff they want, often emblazoned with the Virgin of Guadalupe - a potent symbol of Mexican faith & pride.

It was this juxtaposition of Andeans selling la Virgen on (sometimes really plush two-ply) blankets alongside their native designs that made me put this video together. Music is Yma Sumac's (herself a Peruvian) Voice of The Xtabay- a Yucatan legend. The stuff juxtaposes itself - no?

Enjoy.



UPDATE: English language bonus track below:
Kinda bogus, but go for it....

Labels: blanket, central america, color, espanol, flea market, glyphjockey, mexico, music, south america, spanish, statuette, virgin mary, xtabay, yma sumac

Now, get this: Even I haven't heard this yet !!
We'll be experiencing it for the first time together.

An expensive gift from Mrs. Lex10 about 10 years ago:


PROOF that it was SEALED


Link to larger @ pic below


Side 1






Side 2






Link to larger @ pic below


Made by Peter Pan Records, where my Dad was a security guard between the time he stopped being an executive and the discovery of his Alzheimers

Labels: 33 1/3rpm, album, Christmas, glyphjockey, lee majors, peter pan, six million dollar man

From 1001 Christmas Facts and Fancies - 1937 - published by the A.T. De La Mare Company.

Bigger image in link at pic

Tip for Satanists: turn em' upside down for Candlemas Eve decorations...

Labels: Christmas, decorations, glyphjockey, invert, origami, paper folding, satanists, stars

Courtesy Huffington Post. Reminds me of the Physics of Santa (warning - spoiler alert)

Labels: atheism, belief, bible, christians, freedom, glyphjockey, god, liberation

From the GlyphJockey Collection:

Sad one:

What- is he in the slammer?

"I hope I see you nex year My Dear wife my love to you try to come with John please!
From your loving husband J. Sidaris xxxxxxxxxxx"

Fancy #1

Note REAL feather !!

certification of fancyness from back of card:


Fancy #2

note metallic plastic bow

Ruth Ratby had style


Baseball-card-style Xmas Greeting

obverse of same


4 Santas in a row:




That last one courtesy of THE SUNSHINE CLUB - (what are they? nudists, maybe?)



Happy Greetings?!? Use this one in summer, I guess...



Cartes Postales





Die Cut



and a nauseating kitty



OK pretty much blew out that resource - one can only hope it has POSITIVELY affected your MOOD...Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Labels: cards, Christmas, Christmas Tree, gifts, glyphjockey, greetings, kitty, presents, santa, santaclaus, snow

I'm always lookin' for that je ne sais quoi- that lagniappe from my Xmas lights. It's one thing to put up a bunch, but I needed to modify to achieve certain effects:
First:

I took gold strands and electrical taped together every 10th and 11th bulb.

and hit each one with a coupla coats Candy Apple Flake Red, to achieve this effect:

Effectively randomizing a larger brighter different citrus color for this pine.

Second:

scrape the green off every 10th bulb from 6 strands of green bulbs. (Picture shows scraped halfway.) Want to use the same knife I did? see my Amazon store.

Then affix chili pepper bulb covers over the freshly cleared bulbs and wrap the tree. This is how it looks:

and achieves this effect - leaves and fruits - at night


Lastly I custom painted the bottom strand of red bulbs on this cherry to get a somewhat gradient effect in order to suggest... spring cherry.

Labels: bulbs, Christmas, cold, electric, glyphjockey, kustom kulture, lights, trees, xmas

fun 4 u



fun 4 u 2

Labels: ads, Aunt Fritzi, canada, comics, fritzi Ritz, glyphjockey, Gordo, nancy, sluggo