DanglinDon

@danglindon

He/him; queer sometime singer of forgotten songs & taker of bad film photos. I used to be cluelessly happy before everything turned to shit; sorry you missed that version of me.

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DanglinDon@danglindon· 13d

How it feels being 45, seeing how old you feel

Memento mori relief carving at the Familie Wieser Grabstätte in the Skt. Sebastienskirche Friedhof, Salzburg. A fully decayed skeleton lies on a funerary bier, hourglass nearly done running beside--death inskelet [I can't say incarnate, 'cause there's no flesh left]. His inscription above reads, in classical germanic Fraktur ,,Mensch! Was du bist, bin ich gewesen; u. was ich bin, wirst du auch werden." (Human!What you are, I once was; & what I am, one day you shall become.].

DanglinDon@danglindon· 13d

Last of the roll (Adams/Route 66 at State Str.), Mon.23.IX./'19. Taken on LomochromePurple400 with the ca. 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard (6RF621), uncoated Zeiss/Jena Tessar 3,8; original processing thru Central Camera Co., Chicago.

Final shot on roll of color 120 film, taken in such a way that 1/3 of the square image has been lost at the leader. A ghostly jagged rectangle (the remnant of the tape holding the film to the backing paper) remains in the whiteness above the image. Below can be seen a bustling street scene, with cars on the streets & people passing in front of the photographer. Down the street, past a vacant building clad in a festive mural, the 2-story-high-neon-sign for the Berghoff restaurant can be seen in blazing red.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 14d

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to sk@t a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

Victor-I external-horn-phonograph (ca. 1908) with 78 single sitting at-play on the turntable.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 17d

My fur-nephew deciding to conk-out for a nap (he's so happy!)

Reddish-brown-cattledog literally vibrating as he attempts to relax for a nap on his grandparents' couch.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 18d

Using the Orwo, Nina Hagen und Automobil might ask "Hast Du den Farbfilm vergessen?"

Color screengrab of 19-yr-old Nina Hagen, wearing a large floppy gray hat with yellow ribbon & large red pom-pon, taken from video of her singing the 1974 Automobil hit "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen," about Nina getting angry at her boyfriend Michael [Mischa, mein' Mischa"] for having forgotten the color film when on holiday. The tune resulted in Hagen getting to tour the East German Orwo plant, where she asked pointed questions that landed her in hot water with the Stasi & PolitBuro.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 18d

...not only that, I now have one of the backyard-rabbits throwing shade my way for daring to sit in the cool of the evening...

Angry-looking-leporid waiting for me to stand the fuck up & get outta her way.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 18d

Looonnng fucking day--between the visitors to my parents' house (nurses & family), it took me 9 hrs to do the weekly indoor plant watering (I re-potted a needy crysanthemum & the peace lily my dead Grandma was given after her stroke), then spent another 2 hrs cleaning the kitchen. I'm tired, boss...

Bearded/bloated guy sits in a backyard in a salt-stained-t-shirt & bucket hat, with a look of exhausted bemusement.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 19d

Revisiting some old family foto castoffs, I came upon negatives taken when Uncle George (my great-Grandpa's younger brother) worked for the Forest Service...and, I have questions.

Two men pose in front of a "National Forest" sign with a signal/controlled fire burning behind them in the distance. Uncle George is (I think) on the right.

The two guys again--this time standing in front of a massive rock about the size of a '26 Studebaker Big Six--one (Uncle George) holding a guitar in a sleeveless shirt; the other with his arm arpund the guitarist in a rather close embrace.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 19d

This little a-hole...

Blone chi-hua-hua sits perched on left shoulder of bearded/bloated guy, staring into the camera with an expression I can only describe as "Guilty Muppet."

DanglinDon@danglindon· 20d

Spent a delightful afternoon outside with my Dad, spinning some platters he'd never heard, before taking a bike & some gasoline over to Dad's old house around 20:15 to hurredly mow the lawn there...

Beaming septuagenarian wearing some fantastic Serengeti-tinted-shades w/+2.50 readers built-in, rocking a mid-'90s camouflage trucker cap embroidered w/BEAVER RESEARCH (unsurprisingly an environmental concern) & a t-shirt for the now-defunct Schnabeltier winery (formerly of Rochester, Ind., ,,Schnabeltier" ist Deutsch für Platypus), seated out in his bright & sunny (freshly-mown) backyard, listening to some classic vinyl on a modified A/V cart just out-of-view.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 21d

Grandma was a prolific taper of "Days of Our Lives," so I guess I shouldn't've been surprised when I inserted the tape & saw this (alt text not really needed; just listen & enjoy)

DanglinDon@danglindon· 21d

Going thru boxes at my parents' & I found a VHS tape labeled "Gene Golf Course" by my Grandma (Gene's ma), & thankfully there was a working VHS player on-hand

"Gene Golf Course" written on the label of a VHS tape (ca. 2005) sticking out of a combo CRT/VCR from about the same time.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 24d

...just to make sure he knew there were no hard feelings at making me feel all of the agéd queen I've become, I sent him home with a lovely parting gift...

Original pressing of the John Williams score to STAR WARS [1977--complete with insert].

DanglinDon@danglindon· 24d

My str8 nephew made me feel ancient this evening, not recognizing this artist (he did, however, IMMEDIATELY register the A-side tune)

Sprightly & ageless Kylie Minogue dances in a fun ruffled red dress on the 45 envelope artwork of her 1988 release of Jerry Goffin's "the Locomotion"

DanglinDon@danglindon· 25d

Think of it like a selfie in one of those parking garage or hospital mirrors

Bearded bloated guy stands in a hospital hallway looking into the intersection mirror while holding his cameraphone.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 26d

My twin just sent me this ca. 2010 image of our youngest sister & me preparing to moon the Ed Sullivan Theatre in Dave Letterman times (don't ask me why, but it seemed like a good idea then, after stops at several Manhattan watering-holes)

Two figures stand on the east side of Broadway (directly between 53rd & 54th Strs.) loosening their trousers in preparation for dropping. Behind them, the blazing marquee for the Ed Sullivan Theatre still advertises the Late Show with David Letterman.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 26d

To-day's errand soundtrack taking me back to the last time I was working my ass off but still had no money at all to show for it

Battered pressboard-sleeve-copy of Fall Out Boy / Take This to Your Grave [2003, Fueled by Ramen Records] rests on a similarly battered wool blanket.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 27d

Okay, I feel less guilty about using the Jubilar, 'cause its "brilliant" waist-level-viewfinder is among the shittiest I've ever attempted to use (& for me, that's saying something!)...might need to bring a scarf with me to throw over my head just so I can see more than--well, mySELF staring back

Shadow of bearded bloated guy's face peeping into the area of the "brilliant" viewfinder that would ordinarily show a slightly smooshed (though nevertheless detailed) image plane of approximately where the lens is pointing.

DanglinDon@danglindon· 29d

@nbcnews.com, thanx for paywalling what might've been an article that saved lives...as long as those lives have money to read it. I find this pretty distasteful (regardless if "everybody else does it"). You're tied to a multi-billion-dollar-corporation; maybe get THEM to pass the hat instead of us.

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 13

...I don't yet see any more puffiness under the affected eye than usual (yay, seasonal allergies)--but if I end up with some purple, it's not 'cause anybody's knocking me around

Sun-kist-face of bearded/bloated guy, looking nearly into the camera (oh, & I misstated in the previous picture--it was my RIGHT eye (the one you see on the left of this image) that was impacted.

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 13

See those dark spots in my sunglass-lens? One of 'em's an old war-wound (probably around 2015), but the other one I just got sliding behind Dad's power-["electric," in family parlance]chair, as the stem of his headrest smacked me in the face...thankfully the lens didn't shatter...

Reflection of bearded/bloated guy captured in left lens of a pair of ca. 1997 Ray-Ban Orbs (with a blue flash mirror coating housed in a flat black frame; old black rubber rubber pieces on temples & nose [long-since decayed from wear] replaced with orange handlebar tape stitched together with purple embroidery floss [ca. 1935] from sk@ter's great-grandma's sewing bag) set out on a backyard patio table. There are now two knicks in the glass lens's flash mirror coating (that read like faint black spots).

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 12

Folx, it happened again--this time, I'm fairly certain I haven't sung this one thru since easily 2003; nevertheless, I can still feel that bass part in my chest. Memory's a strange thing. Anybody who's known me for the last 15 yrs would be shocked I'd even heard of such a specific random tune...

1930 printing of "Hymns & Spiritual Songs [Anderson, Ind.: Gospel Trumpet Co., later re-named Warner Press] open to hymn nr. 9, "Once Again We Come to the House of God," words & music by Chas. W. Naylor.

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 11

If it hasn't been tested & the lens is noticeably fogged, does it count? #shittycamerachallenge

6×9 Voigtländer ,,Jubilar'' (ca. 1931-4) 120 folding film camera with black leather bellows (showing a couple large pinhole leaks from looking inside), sits, opened, on a patio table outside at twilight. The lens is an Anastigmat Voigtar 1:9, with 1/50 & 1/25 shutter settings (along with timed & bulb, which all appear to be working properly).

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 8

To-night's curséd sketch: a baby rabbit that turned into some cephalopod/John Carradine hybrid; ink on paper

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 5

Day 2,501 since my last haircut (& it'll likely be just as long until I finally get another, since I haven't had a regular paycheck in 4 yrs) #SomeonePleaseHelpMe

Bearded bloated guy stares into the reflection of his phone's camera while stood at a mirror. He is wearing a 50-yr-old blue t-shirt & looks fairly unhinged (because he is; he's thinking about that last line of the '60s tune "That's Life:"
"But if there's nothin' shakin' come this here July..."

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 5

Don't knock it till you've tried it (I did have to change my shirt after a cool-down one MarketDays)

Lean-&-hungry-guy standing in hid kitchen as he drags on his pipe, the suspenders of his Lederhosrn pulled down as he took off his shirt (former shirt resting on back of chair in front of him).

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 4

Plant parents: I have a hard-case that I've been trying to keep alive since 2024 (when Dad bought it for Mom; this is currently the last plant he hand-selected, as he could no longer drive by Spring of '25); am I able to take starts of what's still growing here to make it heartier? [details in alt]

Sad-looking fuschia plant in a hanging basket outside. There are very few green leaves (lots of long woody parts) & but one actual blossom still blooming.

Closer view of basket (showing what I think may be 2 young oaks, looking healthier & leafier than the rest of the fuschia plant).

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 4

Keesha & Wanda look on suspiciously while riding in the Magic School Bus.

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 2

Sleepy bunny

One of the older leporids that enjoy hanging out in my parents' backyard. This one is sprawled-out in a shady spot, napping as the breeze blows.

DanglinDon@danglindon· Jul 2

Sk@t yourself in your twink era (Wishing I still had that bowling shirt balled-up in my left hand--it had bowling-pin-buttons)