For The Insurance Companies Who Kill Us If We're Not In The Budget

SKIP JAMES' WASHINGTON, DC HOSPITAL BLUES

Yes, I was a good man
But I'm's a po' man
You understand

In the hospital, now
In Washington D.C.
Ain't got nobody
To see about me

But I'm's a good man
But I'm's a po' man
You can understand

All the doctors
And nurses, too
They came and they asked me
'Who in the world are you?'

I says, I'm the good man
But I'm's a po' man
You can understand

The doctors and nurses
They shakin' their head
Said, 'Take this po' man
And put him to bed'

Because he's a good man
We know he's a po' man
We can understand

I didn't go hungry
I had a-plenty to eat
I had good treatment
And a place to sleep

Because I was a good man
They knew I was a po' man
They could understand

I met a little damsel
She promised me
That she would love me
And always be sweet

She found out I was a po' man
And I thought I was a good man
She couldn't understand, no

Now, when she left me
She got in the do'
She waved me, good-bye
I haven't seen her no mo'

She found out I was a good man
She knew I was a po' man
She couldn't understand

The doctors and nurses
They shakin' my hand
Say, 'You can go home now, Skip
You's a sound, well man'

Because you's a good man
You's a po' man
We can understand

I'd thankin' my doctor
And I was shakin' his hand
I'm gon' play these, 'Hospital Blues'
'Till you's a wealthy man'

You took me as a good man
You know'd I was a po' man
You could understand

You know'd I was a good man
But I'm's a po' man

You can understand!

Hear Here:

Moblog: In a Gallery on Minna

From a series of illuminations called "American Qu'ran" - quite apt & visually compelling when viewed in sequence -

Moblog: Yerba Buena center.....

T'was giagundo, I tells ya.....

Moblog: Sauce Poupee'

L'accompaniment parfait pour tout les 'snaks'

Moblog: Japantown S.F.

Shabu shabu hey! We accept you one of us!

Moblog: Grand Canyon

I see the shapes I remember from maps

Judy Henske's Unfortunate Leg Meat

The scene below from Hootenanny Hoot! features Judy Henske, the speculatively real-life Annie Hall (ew- bangin' Woody Allen..... ew, but then again, it may have never occurred) I absolutely hate this type of folk music and this ADD-style performance, full of squinched up feelin', is no exception. It is soaked in hyperdramtic oomph.

But the car crash I cannot look away from is Judy Henske's leg meat at 3:13. She's a fit girl, and everybody has both relaxed and tight musculo-skeletal states, but the way that one section of thigh starts flailing and wobbling - jiggling doesn't come close to describing it at all - becomes a thing of fascination, completely taking over the experience of the song. Yipe. And not the good kind of yipe. It runs wild, poking the eyes with it's thrashing, and one has to ask, didn't the continuity person, director, assistant director, editor or producer notice it? My brain screams "CUT TO CLOSEUP!! CUT TO CLOSEUP!!" but they don't and nature shows us - on film - in perpetuity how we all came from the liquidy sea......

Plus that hairdo.....

Moblog: Flower......OF DEATH

Angel of death mushroom, fully desporing. Looks like Amanita Muscaria, but it'll kill ya.....

Buzzard sur croix

Like it wasn't spooky enough, when I was taking this picture, a young girl stopped her car and asked what i was doing. Like they were watching me and they sent her.

I said, "there's a buzzard on the cross - I'm taking a picture...." I figured it was better than waking up tied to a pillar in the church basement.

A sad one by Richard Manuel

Richard Manuel

Moblog: Lookit

phenomenon

One Man's Obsession

Steven Hills Movie Title Pages. Just....endless, hundreds, assloads of movie title screens. Has to be seen to:
A: Be believed
B: Be appreciated
let's face it - this stuff is an impact making few seconds of any film (for instance, in my house we say, "Cartoon opening; good movie." - think about it - it's true) and Senor Hill has made it his mission, with just a hint of "WTF?!?"

Turner Appreciated in the Guardian

Interesting piece.

Devil Got My Woman

Crayola WeeGee

Crayola has an online coloring page maker - so I thought why not do someting devilish with it? And while war photos and starving children might be the obvious cold hearted ironic choice, I went over to If Charlie Parker Etc. and helped myself to some of the fine WeeGee photos they have there and did the following coloring book pages (click for bigger, already !!):

This one's called Season's Greetings....



it came from this....


...and this one's called "Future Crime"



it came from this....


Trivia: WeeGee did special distortion effects for the Red Skelton pic The Yellow Cab Man !!



NOW IT'S YOUR TURN _ GET TA WOIK!

Moblog: Not Glad

tragic....

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Doin' It - In Comfort.......

Funky fresh - century 21 style!

melon

You

Not really - just kiddin'

G'Day, Bruce and Sheila!

"Hi
Through a Google search we found some great images on your site www.glyphjockey.com and wondered about conditions of using images as outlined below.

My colleague and I have an organisation (in Melbourne Australia) that provides training for workers and families with a person with brain injury.

Some of the images on your site would be perfect to illustrate aspects of working with people with brain injury. If we were to use it we would use it on a Power point slide and in handouts provided to participants attending our workshop.

Can you shed any light on whether we are able to use the images and what conditions there are on use.

Look forward to hearing from you
Regards"

Need I elucidate that when someone finally has a legitimate use for my images it's to help illustrate aspects of working with people with brain injuries? While I am happy to help, and kudos to these folks for choosing such a challenging field, the irony is not lost on me.

Moblog: Shoot Me Now

click to enlarge

Moblog: Bulimics.Ahoy!

Yes, I know "Gagan" mean"Sky"
...I just couldn't help posting.....

Polanski Tate '68 - Fate Awaits

WHOOPSY - LINKS FIXED

Modern Screen May '68

Click para Grande


mmmmm.....yellowed!!

Lazy Old Sun

Wallpaper link at pic below.

Fruits De Mer

enlarge by clicking images

Bad Karma, Nice Lady Style

All enlarge upon viewer clickulation.....with actual working links, yay.

Jess' Birthday

Talk about uncanny - today is Jess Collins' birthday. Unplanned posting - swear.

So enjoy these better examples of his work forwarded by Gary Lee-Nova. Two things - all images link to giant versions and the last is especially rewarding, owing to the more easily visible pasteup technique:











By the way it is also Artist Ken Sakurai's birthday too/

WV Hearts GJ - this week only

Bizarre trippy and loads of fun - not unlike - one would would imagine - Paula Abdul. While I feel I present loads more content than old comics, I'll accept whatever column inches I can lay my little insecure grubby virtual hands on.

Cool Tool Library - Oakland, CA

I had a chance to visit Oakland Public Libary's TOOL lending library....yes, that's right, tools. Need an 11/16th spade bit (great for old school xmas light base holes- don't ask)? Break out your library card.... How about a half-round bastard file? Right this way. Stilson wrench? no problem. Spirit level? Yep. Can you cope with a coping saw? (for the record, I just listed those to be lingusitically clever) The rooms are well organized (by Ty, librarian in charge of the area - his favorite food? Thai.) in a vintage Carnegie Library building's rear entrance at the Temescal Branch.

Libraries are the last bastion of a true society here in the U.S.; everybody wants to support education, then bitches about the cost. We have little or no free college, we have no public health care, we underfund other non-commerce-based public works, but everybody, it seems to me observing people in libraries across the U.S. uses the library. It's the great independent study resource. Often they are underfunded, too, but the folks who run them still manage to provide solid reasonable frou-frou free (like that one?) lending services like this tool library, which ultimately serves the public at large well by facilitating repair and/or creation of.....whatever.

This tool library, (me opining again) is as mind-freeing of a concept as................unburned books!

And it turns out that there's several in the US. Many in the I-wish-I-lived-there Bay Area.

Speaking of burning and banning of books, here's a list of proposed tools that could do with some renaming to avoid being endangered by the book banning fascists:
Butt marker
ball-peen
dead-blow
Stud finders
Hand screw clamp
Mortar hoes
Float, rubber
Hoe (hula)
Furniture dolly
Grinders
Elec. snake-small
Nipple extractor
Tubing bender
Wrenches (internal pipe, plug, seating, slipknot, spud, stem, strap)

Just for the record: that's the zeitgeist puttin' those suggestive images in your heads - not me.