[billycw]

And to go further into detail, when I look at that Mendel photo above I think,...

Did Matthew Mcconaughey figure out time travel, go back in time kidnapping Mendel for a good old mid 1800's romp through Europe and for some unknown reason drag him to this get together making him pose in this photo. Matthew wanting a keepsake poses just to the right of him in the photo puffing on the stogie. Mendel defiant looks away from both the picture and his captor... Or something along those lines

[billycw]

With our world in a spinning state of constant change, there are always those left obsolete. Before the conception of the alarm clock, there were those that walked the dark streets to wake the slumbers of the working man, they were the Knocker Upper's...


Unknown knocker upper Northern England

To wake people from their sleep, knocker uppers were employed to knock on windows or doors to wake the workers. Mostly done with long poles sometimes fitted with snuffer's, many times being double employed as the lamplighters who would light and put out the street lamps nightly. Some like Mary Smith used her trusty pea shooter to rattle the windows.


Mary Smith shooting her dried peas at waking windows

Drawn on a pub wall in Hanky Park, a calling card ode of sorts for the local Knocker upper Jack Fellows. Jack with his two dogs, one called "Lol" and another tiny dog called "Twerp" which he kept in his jacket pocket, was one of the last working Knocker uppers.


Jack Fellows with his dogs Lol and Twerp

But with time and the advent of inventions to lesser human interaction, how we live, work and go about our days are forever changing...

Yorkshire Evening Post 1922



I feel this british folk song sums it all up nicely...

The Knocker Upper Man-
British folk song by Mike Canavan

Through cobbled streets so cold and damp
The Knocker-Upper man goes creeping
Tap-tapping at the window pane
To wake the town from sleeping.

Chorus :
He said “Eh thee up and stir thi'self
The factory ooter’s blowin’
So get up from your nice warm bed
To work you must be goin’”

Day in day out the year about
Though snow or rain are fallin
You’d hear his clogs along the street
You’d hear his voice a’callin’

All the early-rising working folk
The Knocker-Upper's call they heeded
But time goes by, old customs die
Now he's no longer needed

Through streets of quiet suburbia
The Knocker-Upper's ghost goes creeping
Now listening to the ringing sound
That wakes the town from sleeping

[billycw]

“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.”
-Joe Rogan





An excerpt from Joe Rogan's stand-up about Life and The Universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DpdEmbNwGk

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“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
― William T. Sherman 1880


Vietnam on June 18, 1965.

Ann Arbor Sun, August 28, 1969





The real air america... Air-America--Bell-205-helicopter at Hmong base, Loas


Anti Vietnam War Demonstration by Marc Riboud

[Hermanthegerman]

Against corn on the feet

[Betterhaff]

Originally Posted by billycw

Ann Arbor Sun, August 28, 1969
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"Free JOHN" as in John Sinclair...2 joints.

[billycw]

Originally Posted by Betterhaff

"Free JOHN" as in John Sinclair...2 joints.

“Our program is cultural revolution through a total assault on culture, which makes use of every tool, every energy and every media we can get our collective hands on… our culture, our art, our music, our books, our posters, our clothing, the way our hair grows long, the way we smoke dope and fuck and eat and sleep-it-s all one message-the message is freedom.” –John Sinclair (1969)


John Sinclair

Yes, the Ann Arbor Sun was John Sinclair's paper he founded and edited until his 10 for 2 arrest. The paper continued and and was the main force in the Free John campaign. Really fun archive to look through.

John Lennon - 10 for 2/John Sinclair
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Stevie Wonder stole the show...was wonderful.

[billycw]

Originally Posted by Betterhaff

Stevie Wonder stole the show...was wonderful.

Had a long day of trim hell yesterday but enjoyed going back and listening to Johns rally after your comment, Stevie did kill it

Stevie starts around 50:42 in

JohnSinclairFreedomRally
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Man with a pipe/ unknown