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Fixing Things, Breaking Things, Wondering Why. A Walking, Talking Swiss Army Knife. Just Won’t Do Right, Bless His Heart

A photo of an Eltro Rate Changer.
Looking up the mizzenmast on the USCGC Eagle. The American flag and several pennants are waving in the breeze. The sun is behind the mast, silhouetting the shrouds, ratlines, and other rigging. Clouds are seen scudding overhead.
A framed picture of Godzilla hangs on a wall. The wall is hung with Stars and Stripes bunting. Godzilla is sporting a jaunty Uncle Sam hat. Godzilla is clutching a train in one hand, and fireworks are bursting from the top of it. Godzilla is looking at you, with a huge teeth baring grin.
A bag of Ore-Ida STAR (star shaped) Tater Tots, in festive red, white and blue packaging.
A digital thermometer display shows an outside temperature of 104° F, inside temperature of 75° F.
A speckled beige tin container of Charles Chips “A Better Name For A Better Potato Chip”
A photo of the starboard side of the MV Ville De Bourdeaux, at dock in Morehead City. The suction sails are visible midships.
Title card for Search (formerly Probe).
Fred Rogers looking kind of stern, with a chyron that says “I say that because I care about you.”
Logo for Wick’s Pies.
The cover of The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968 by William Manchester.
Terminal Lance #41 Standing Post: Stages of Boredom First panel Stage 1: Conversation Grunt 1 - I’m gonna f*ck everything when I get home. Grunt 2 - Yup. Grunt 1 - I’ll have to start freebasing penicllin. Like… some kind of sexual cocaine addict. Second panel Stage 2: Song Grunt 1 - You are… my fiiiire. Grunt 2 - My one… desiiiire. Grunt 1 - Believe me when I say… Both Grunts - I WANT IT THAAAT WAY!! Third panel Stage Three: Genital Mutilation Grunt 1 - Dude, watch me light my pubes on fire! Grunt 2 - HAHAHAHAHA! You’re the fucking man, dude!
Top Secret Madame Bon-Bon’s Secret “Fooj” Ingredients: 1 lb granulated sugar 1 small can evaporated milk 1/4 lb finest butter 1 tbsp water 1 tbsp corn syrup 4 tbsp unsweetened chocolate Put all the ingredients into a saucepan. Melt slowly on a low gas until the mixture thickens slightly and is absolutely smooth. Turn up gas and boil very quickly until it forms into a soft ball when a sample is dropped into cold water. Remove from heat and beat well with a wooden spoon. Pour the whole mixture into a flat, greased pan, mark in squares, and leave to set. When cold, DEVOUR!
A taupe/champagne colored 1989 Honda Accord 4 door sedan on display in the Henry Ford Museum.
Shackleford ponies on the sound side.
Video of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse from the sound side. The Keeper’s Quarters are on the left. The Lighthouse is encased in scaffolding, and the ironworks at the top have been removed. The long reflection of the lighthouse is seen in the water.
Looking out the back door (sound side) of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse Keepers' Quarters. In the distance, a center console boat is moored near the beach.
Bob Denver, as Gilligan, stares at the camera apprehensively.
A Strafleet crew member stands on an alien planet, while the Enterprise whooshes by overhead. Everything is in shades of red. Art by Lou Feck for Star Trek 8 by James Blish.
Scan of “The Klipsch Sound Reproducer — A Corner-Type Speaker Which Uses the Walls as Part of the Acoustical System” by Paul W. Klipsch (1947)
Don Camillo (Mario Idorf) and Mayor Peppone (Brian Blessed) arm wrestling.
A photo of a deep purple iris bloom with a galvanized trash can in the background.
A Barbie head with pink hair ensconced in a scallop shell, sitting on a white porch rail, with shell fragments nearby, and flowering shrubs in the background.
Saint-Exmin and Zed The Corsair from Battle Beyond The Stars 1984.
A statue of a Greek woman, centered in a fountain, in the intersection of downtown Enterprise, AL. The woman holds a boll weevil overhead.
A poster of Gilbert Shelton’s Freewheelin’ Franklin (of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) saying “Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times with no dope.”
Movie poster for The Giant Claw (1957) where a giant monster is chowing down on an airplane.
A tiger swallowtail lights on bright yellow jessamine blooms.
Banana pudding served in small mason jar, with whipped cream and a vanilla wafer on top.
Title page of House, by Tracy Kidder 1985. Right about the time I was making my first forays into Historic House Restoration.
A nigh on sixty year old Price Pfister pop up sink drain, lies unattached in the sink, surrounded by gradoo of rust and plumbers putty, with the agent of its disassociation, a stubby sledge hammer, lying nearby.
Sound effects stickers from Mad Magazine 1977 by Don Martin. Illustrated examples of “splitch” “spwatch” “spladap” “pwang” “doont” “foinsapp” “bzzownt” “silzafitz” “thuk” “glitch” “shtoink” “bukkida bukkida”
Photo of a single daffodil bloom, backlit.
A photo by Robert Cumming of Edith Head, sitting on a sofa in her bungalow, with several miniature sewing machines displayed on a low glass table in front of her, and one in her hand (1977).
A single bloom of Carolina Jessamine on a twining vine is seen in sharp near field focus, with a blurred background of a thick hedge of many more blooms and green leaves.
An EOL washing machine gearbox/transmission, my second best engineer/blacksmith hammer, a can of PB Blaster, and a length of galvanized pipe (aka a cheater).
Photo looking down into the inner tub of a washing machine with the agitator removed. A precarious assemblage of large c clamps, a trailer hitch, and a hub spanner is on top of the drive shaft.
Brendan Gleeson as The Guard (2011) collars a young hoodlum.
A partially devoured Atlantic Beach Pie with a Ritz cracker crust.
A green plate laden with St. Patrick’s Day fare: corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, irish soda bread, slathered in butter.
A soul probe and a root feeder lying on a patio table, surround by a demounted fan blade, tape measure, cordless driver, PB Blaster, and assorted wrenches and pliers.
A photo of a lone tee ninesy yellow daffodil, about the size of a quarter.
Photo off the side of the head of a horse with bridle. A circle is drawn where the bridle passes over the poll of the horse (a pressure control point).
I Voted Sticker
Logo of the Nickel Plate Road. The NYC&StL line, envisioned as a competitor to Vanderbilt’s rail lines, was built in an astonishing sixteen months, and to higher engineering standards than many lines, thus inspring the nickname.
A Tru Temper Roofer’s Spade with Fulcrum, stuck in several inches of crusted sleet.
A large red ice scraper with a brass blade and a sweep brush down the back, and a much smaller vintage (1970’s?) plastic scraper with a small brush and a niche with a door to put keys or change in.
Max Headroom
Two scenes from Magnum Force: An exploding car, And Clint Eastwood saying: A man’s got to know his limitations.
Screenshot of Twitter post: Robby Starbuck: It’s embarassing. The Spanish conquistador in me wants to jump in and take control. It’s a curse having DNA from there and Roman times. We just have too many weak men in government. Joe Lonsdale: Yep.
A rum cake in a bundt pan.
They said they would do his commandment, and to the intent that they should not lose him in the press, they tied all their reins of their bridles each to other and set the King before to accomplish his desire, and so they went on their enemies.
Frontispiece to the second book ever printed in English by William Caxton in 1483. “THE GAME AND PLAYE OF THE CHESSE”
Instagram post by Kiese Laymon: “You know what black folks in the south called white folks committed to terror and domination? We called them “white folks”, not Nazis, not fascists. You know what we called white folks committed in any way, teeny or large, who refused to use being racial racialized as white to terrorize? We called them “good white folks.” Bar is low, but we needed them in our fight for freedom. They also needed us in our fight to free them. Trump and them are white folks. They ain’t Nazis. American made white folks. I appreciate good white folk for fighting terror from within. And we all need more of yall to save yourselves from your folk.
Tom Baker, at a ceremony receiving the MBE, wearing a scarf, standing next to a Dalek and K9, the robot dog.
Three buttons: Poor People’s Campaign Now A Moral Revolution Of Values Introverts Unite We Are Here We Are Uncomfortable And We Want To Go Home Fuck Ice (in icee lettering)