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Today — November 23, 2025
	I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) Why art is better dead than dying.  From Erewhon by Samuel Butler, 1872. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink) We're honored that sculpture & graveyard photographer Nadine Dinter played Neons Gone Mad at her gallery show in Berlin. Click to view a larger image Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Go Out in a Blaze of Glory . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Thin and ugly necks.  From the Daily Mirror, 1904. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Old News (permalink) "Happy as the night is long."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) "Making pea eating a pleasure."  From The Pathfinder, 1929. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Old News (permalink) From Meeting on the Moon by the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1969. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Wheaton College's 1957 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "Not for me."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1944. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Oberlin College's 1922 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "Australian men are 'quite a weird mob.'"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "Apotheosis, or the passage of the spirit from earth to spirit life."  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Nov. 1882. Via The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals.  (Hat tip: Bizarre Chicago.) Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Duluth Herald, 1912. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) A potato turkey.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Memphis State College's 1946 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From St. Nicholas, 1890. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From 73 Magazine, 1965. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink) From The Smart Set, 1918: *** Emotions have their fashions no less than millinery. [Nathan] *** For thirty years this Mr. Dale has been tiptoeing up behind the drama and devilishly tipping its hat down over its eyes. [Nathan] *** Click to view a larger image Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan . . .