Another Trip to the Art Squirrel's Warehouse Today....

Traffic, Traffic, Traffic....

When we arrived at the squirrel's lair she had already gathered herself, thank God, so it only took an hour to load the van.  This time it was almost exclusivly large antique museum grade frames, a very nice load! While we were loading the dolly things were shifting (the place is packed with the grooviest stuff), and as a large framed piece started to fall, we reached out and grabbed it just in time....

Yes,
It was an original Keith Haring, covered in dust....
(One just shakes one's head in dismay...)

Then off to Manhattan! 
With our full load, and more,
Traffic, traffic, traffic...

We are home now and everything is better.  We have beer, a dozen baked pork buns from Mai le Wah's and a very special package of imported lace & a lovely card from Princess all the way from Oz....

(More on that later)!

Is There a Law that States that Carpeting Must Be on the Floor???

On The Light Side:

We found this on Tumblr.

We found a lamp made by the same people several years ago, not this one, but ours is just as groovy.  We took a photograph of it but it is un-postable (with all the crap we have seen, one would think that we'd have a decent camera).


Wait!
We'll try one more time.....
We think it worked...

Well it's good enough to get the idea.

Anyway, there are no markings on it anywhere, all original when we found it.  We rewired it, and rubbed several coats of laquer on the wood, polished & clear-coated the brass and re-stiched the leather lanyard in the original style.....

Expertly Restored.

We would like to know anything that anyone could tell us about it. 

Do you know?

We are quite certain that it is early post-war, American (Eastern or Industrial mid-western).

We love it, but more importantly, the kids are waiting for us to kick-the-bucket so they can get their hands on it!

Won't they be surprised to find out that about thirty people have keys to our place!!!

WHAT FUN!!!

To bad we won't be there...

New Queens Art....

This is a short film created in our neighborhood, Astoria, less than a week ago during the blizzard.
Roger Ebert said that it should win an Academy Award....
Watch it - it is lovely...

fastest three minutes in quite-a-while.




Read the whole story : Thanks to The Daily Dish.

E Pluribus Groovum

just over at Joe.My.God and he has posted a link to some fantastic HDR photography .... 

it is worth the click!

the patiosville's beatnicks.....

or some such nonsense -

AKRON - CLEVELAND - KENT

in the late seventies
we are certain some of you out there in bloggyland have crossed paths with at least one here

Spike Heel, Lizard Boy and Shirlee Knott and her younger sister and brother: Mae Bea Knott & Will Knott (we've always thought that Wyatt Knott was an aborted fetus).
Popps Cunningham & the Cunningham Clan: Richie, Kathy, Little Chris Killian( that lived on the corner of Charlotte & Webber), and others that we'd know today if we ran into them but their alias' escape us.... Jimmy Zero & Suzzie Q were with that crowd - Circle Jerks
don't have the blueberry crumble!
Rachel & Giselle Flemming, Rick and Warren
Bobby.... & .... Soviet Threat, (The ever present)(Lt. Col.))
Dancin' Dave...
Dangerous Don...
Mother's, The Bank,
JB's up, JB's down - a pubescent Scott Weiland, (who was your chaperone, anyway?)
NO STIV...
... for a quarter i will -
THE AKRON GOODWILL
david morningstar, sad, RIP
FUCKING MODELS -
Sherri North, Paul Bearer (AKA Jim Jarmusch)
BO DIDLEY, Dead Boys
Ray & the Ethington boys
THE VAPORS (the ones that had the name first then sued by some japanese band)
Trudy, Tracy, The Trendsetters and the Teagles - both of 'em
a man... needs a motor...
Want some Moe, & Mark Hughes
Devolution & Amy
Dog-Boy.... rruuffff
The Waitresses, Wild Giraffes, Tin Huey
Patti Donehue RIP & Chris Butler(too great for mere earthlings & still kicking)
Professor Dave who got our italian patent leather shoes -
Cliff, Brent & the other One, ACTION
KLAUS NOMI wants to blow me -
Mikie Hammar & Donny Damage
The Phantasy, Pirate's Cove, Agora, Agora, Agora
The Akron Museum of Art -
The Real Akron Museum of Art -
BIG WOW - Bizaaros
Betty Ford, Betty Brown, Betty Davis, Bette Greene < The Bettys
Chi Pig
Sweet Rachel Sweet, adam
Rubber City Rebels
vilmers
The Somantics, X, Rapid Eye Movement, Kar Sickness
Del Boner & the Sodbusters
Krista Cynthia Kennedy Kauffmann Rose, Krizek
Dan Kidney & the Pulsations
Bob and Jack Kidney & Terry Hynde - The Numbers Band
Chrissie

as we are wont to do -
we will post this now & then add to it later, and later, and later....
as we recollect....
as we are wont to do...

qw -  AKA - Will Knott, Wally Mod, Wally Awful...

this is good,,, but where are those playboy photos where the guy wears bandanas as a swimsuit???.... HOT

don't worry gams...
we will be bringing you to court very, very soon...

qw

how very irritating .....

so, for a few years now, we've been gardening around this particular jug....:



not even the hint of a single flaw.
sits outside all year....
for years....


check out the stamp...

so you know we, eventually, got around to it....
how
very
irritating.... 
especially since "la poisson rouge" is right around the corner....
(gender confused?)

well at least the crate & barrel is there too,,,
and Angelica.....

oh! if only the address still existed....

and oh! if it was anything other than an annex for NYU....

.... and for jocks at that.....

(((you know? NYU), the children of the "one percentile" that has been busy raping all of us since the day we were born.), ... and now they even have grandchildren learning to rape us, but in the most pleasant possible way, of course....).

P. Arnault, herself,  would be very, very irritated, of that we assure you....

done being kampy now....

i really would like to know...

....it is always fun to think a jug is always about hard cider! - !   ...but notice the size of the opening....

it is nyc, (very modern), so this is before the civil war, ((this piece of mud is american, (new york, pennsylvania, ohio,west virginia) and not from france). or possibly a sole importer of, perhaps.....

CAPERS???

let me know if you know more than i do, please...

qw

i really get the feeling that this clay is from NY..

people's party....

our found glass collection, overlooking our garden in astoria(proper), queens....


...of course, using colour, one must coordinate... (or clash, i don't judge)....

....in the case of having to feed a horse of a different colour....



...understanding is always a good thing....



and if all that failed to reach you there is always::::::::::::::::


RED

qw

is there any other colour?

sometimes it happens...

especially if you are tall & wearing a copper dress-

qw

it's a feeling and a scene....

new york city subway riders -

illustration by francis luis mora -
the new york sun -
december 13, 1914 -

great piece -

it still feels this way, quite often -
just change the outfits & update the pullman car...
replace some of the newspapers with an iThis & iThat, and add someone knitting -
infuse a few more pigments into the medium on canvas...

the faces & feeling are the same...
and nyc is nyc

qw

lethal & miss lily? ...

we all know they only like the crunchy bits

well?
anyone?

qw

check out this vixen's art ....
brought to us by bob...
thanks bob.

flaming hag folkwear...

FLAMING HAG FOLKWEAR !

we fear what might happen if we scream it out loud three times in a row...
f
h
f

qw

other moist things...

moist


this is elani, who periodically blogs with us whilst we sip budweisers, immodestly, from elegant crystal goblets

click on the moist link above to see some of michael bellamy's works

qw

parking in queens...

it is 38 seconds long... clickit...

Parallel Parking from Yum Yum London on Vimeo.

qw

ps
mmmh... ham

FRESH! - from the line...

"there's a flower towel in every box of BREEZE!"
...and...
you ain't woman enough to take my man -


qw

haute cuisine....

presented in the classic manor
qw

dumpster diving queen...

won't you just look at this empire tutor's desk we found, just sitting out on the sidewalk, waiting for the department of sanitation to cart it away...
shame
made of mahogany and in very good condition...
we were so excited we took these lousy photographs straightaway -


after a good cleaning & waxing we will post decent civilized images for our pleasure

then we went out to re-enforce our ale supply...
and came home with this charming still life in oils dated 1937 (as well as more ale)...

we have consumed far to much ale to study the artists name right now...
be it no matter -
for we are amused

qw

even our trash in queens is exquisite

our kind of town -

beer, drugs, cafe & beer...

please click to embigen...
please?



our dearheart in SF sent us this LINK last week -
if you like photography and or americana ...
you really should take a look

qw

a scorpio's toilet....

in queens its pronounced ter'let



the perpetual, eternal bubble bath
it feels really good on the skin too -