Things I Like August 2005 (ennui vs. manic depression edition)

1. This collection of posters for the movies presented by Mystery Science Theater 3000.

mst3k-starfighters

2. The “musical furry lobster

furrylobster

3. Though not furry, the the sponge crab carries around a sponge on it’s back for camouflage.

spongecrab

4. Italian guitars of the 1960s. (full disclosure: I own a Crucinelli-built Vox Cheetah)

hagstrom_guitar goya_guitar

5. François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’ comic series Les Cités Obscures. Mysterious steampunk adventure stories where the story/plots center around architecture city planning constructs. I’ve got three of the books and love them dearly, but I had no idea that there were nine more. Each one feels like a history parable that fell out of some parallel universe. (more reading)

schuiten

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