Marty Olliff

@martyolliff

Retired Prof of History at Troy Univ. Dothan Campus, Director of the Wiregrass Archives. My opinions are absolutely my own. #NOKINGS #NOWAR

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Marty Olliff@martyolliff· 19d

This is all you need to know about the malicious glee and sociopathic disregard with which Elon recklessly endangered the recipients of USAID. Never let him paper this over.

Elon “Ketamine Boy” Musk wildly celebrates being raised on a pedestal by puny dictator Javier Milei by flailing around with a symbolic chainsaw at a CPAC convention.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· 19d

From page 4 of Jeff Frederick’s 2007 book, Stand Up For Alabama: “One Alabama farmer understood the tactic completely: ‘Around here, communism's anything we don't like. Isn't it that way every where else?’” Welcome to the Alabamification of U.S. politics.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· 19d

We once knew what to do.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· 21d

Trump's Great Healthcare Plan™️explained! (Commie Plot Comics, National Lampoon, April 1972)

Healthcare a la "Commie Plot Comics," National Lampoon, April 1972. Panel reads ". . . And Pleasantville was given its first dose of 'socialized' medicine. Below, a cartoon of large bin labeled "Placebos Grade 'C' New wt 60 kilo, in background a Soviet soldier handing out medicine to a line of concentration camp men. soldier says, "Take two of these. If pain continue, DIE?" Prisoner says to another "If I get sick once more, I go on Vacation." Reply: "Florida?" Reply: "SIBERIA!"

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· 26d

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

B&W photo of woman modeling a two piece bathing suit festooned with peanuts as if they were sequins, but even more, she’s wearing a giant peanut head (with a woman’s face painted on it). From the National Peanut Festival Collection, Wiregrass Archives, Troy University Dothan (Alabama) Campus.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jul 12

Let her.

R. Crumb pen and ink drawing of a seated woman punching herself in the face, an apt metaphor for Nancy Mace’s attempts to revive her political career by vying for the senate seat and GOP nomination left vacant when the Grim Reaper visited Lindsey Graham.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jul 10

Before the mid-1920s, paper maps were “aspirational,” they described how a route was supposed to look but not how it actually operated. Motorists used a guide like the AAA Blue Book with descriptions. You had to reset your odometer for each trip and ask locals who often lied for fun.

Page from the 1914 AAA Blue Book describing a route in New England. This is how people motored prior to paper maps that became realistic route maps only in the mid 1920s.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jul 5

I hope this will improve your mood:

Political cartoon by Goris showing three “Patriot Front” members standing before the U.S. Capitol while wearing underwear on their heads. Caption reads “Tighty-whitey nationalists visit Washington.”

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 29

For scar reduction, this stuff. And it’s cheap.

Container of PALMER'S®
COCOA BUTTER
FORMULA®
with Vitamin E

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 23

These need to decorate the Reflecting Pool

Stack of stickers featuring Donald Trump pointing over the words “I Did That.”

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 20

If they don’t like your work they don’t fire you, the deport you to a country you’re not from.

Newspaper from scene in movie Johnny Dangerously. New York Gazette headline reads “Morone deported to Sweden. Clare’s he’s not from there” over a picture of a wild-eyed criminal named Roman Morone. This was funny before the U.S. made it a policy to deport people to anywhere the fuck we want.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 20

Doughnuts, a venerable tradition in serving troops. https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/california-in-ww1-then/6456-doughnut-dollies.html

“Doughnut Dolly” serving coffee and doughnuts to two Allied soldiers (one wounded with a bandaged eye) in World War 1. Sepia tone propaganda photo.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 16

Dear Brandon

Mock WW2 poster showing a smiling GI in his helmet hoisting a canteen cup toward his mouth. Text reads: HOW ABOUT A NICE, BIG CUP OF SHUT THE FUCK UP.
THINK BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR STUPID MOUTH!

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 16

Is there nothing these ghouls won’t shit all over?

Cartoon cover of Gahan Wilson’s book, Is Nothing Sacred, showing cartoon people worshiping an idol to Nothing.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 6

In honor of D-Day and as part of Dothan, AL’s America 250 celebrations, my shop built its Voices of Veterans display and website. 12 local vets (and one spouse) interviewed 1997-2009, excerpted and introduced. WW2, Korea, Vietnam. Website at https://spectrum.troy.edu/wvp250/

Wiregrass Archives at Troy University Dothan Campus installation of Voices of Veterans, introductory panel with QR code pointing to project website, smaller individual panels for 12 interviewees covering WW2, Korea, Vietnam. Includes service members plus a Tuskegee Airman civilian flight instructor and a soldier’s spouse. Links to excerpts and excerpt transcripts at website, https://spectrum.troy.edu/wvp250/.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 6

As National Lampoon pointed out, we’ve been bullshitting (with willful abandon) about how we treat detainees for a LONG time.

Joint picture of Mad Magazine cover cartoon Alfred E. Neuman with his tagline, “What, me worry?” changed into Lt. William Calley (in the second image) on the cover of National Lampoon above the tagline “What, My Lai?”

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Jun 3

Enjoy this picture of this pig that I post for no reason at all.

Portrait of a large pig with a fence and building in the background.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 30

NPR, reinforcing its decade-long reputation

R. Crumb pen-and-ink cartoon of a seated woman punching herself in the face.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 24

Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 24

I completely forgot the most interesting thing in Fairhope, the “Roundhouse,” aka “Tolstoy Park.” A hermit-like guy from Idaho built his beehive shaped abode from self-cast cement blocks and scavenged bricks c. 1900. It’s in Montrose, a couple of miles north. Now in a parking lot.

Henry Stewart House, aka Round House or Tolstoy Park, built by an Idaho hermit c. 1900 in Montrose, near Fairhope, AL.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 21

Flagg’s most famous poster, from 1917

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 20

Our forebears pulled down King George’s statue, we can pull down Trump’s monstrosity.

Lithograph of New Yorkers pulling down King George III’s statue.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 17

Pen and ink cartoon from New Yorker of two scholarly men seated in a plush, club-like library. Older, bearded historian says to younger,
"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by
helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 8

Trump inspecting the Reflecting Pool

Painting of Narcissus looking at his reflection
Echo and Narcissus (1903) by John William Waterhouse. The painting captures the tragic moment from Greek mythology where Narcissus, entranced by his reflection, is oblivious to the forlorn Echo who watches him in despair. Credit: Google Art Project. Public Domain.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 5

Happy birthday to Karl Marx #OTD in 1818. Or as I call today, Cinco de Marxo . . .

Five of the same photograph is portrait of Karl Marx.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 4

Fashion was art for this one-time queen of France, too.

Painting of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, before being shaved by the National Razor.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 2

Al Smith saya hiya

Black and white photo of NY governor Al Smith, Dem presidential candidate in 1928, known as the Happy Warrior.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· May 1

The only tp worth the effort

Brown shipping box of “Who Gives a Crap” 100% Bamboo Toilet Paper, plus a roll of toilet paper, roll of paper towels, box of tissues.

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Apr 28

If they REALLY want to protect the president . . . (assumes there’s enough carbonite in existence)

Pix from Wikimedia Commons of “Han Solo in carbonite - prop from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back at the Star Wars Identities Exhibition at the O2 in London.” https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Han_Solo_in_Carbonite_%2831649435213%29.jpg

Marty Olliff@martyolliff· Apr 15