The Crazy Horse Memorial in Black Hills, South Dakota
It honors the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who resisted U.S. government encroachment in the 19th century.
It was begun in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, invited by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear, who wanted a Native American monument to rival Mount Rushmore, and has been built entirely through private donations and visitor fees.
It’s planned to be the largest sculpture in the world, depicting Crazy Horse on horseback, pointing to his ancestral lands.
I learned in a four on the floor and an automatic (Dad had one of each), but I could handle the three on the tree just as well. I believe that was an old Ford pickup (starter button on the floor, vacuum wipers…old pickup).
Jogging suits are at least nominally sporting… though the all polyester ones are kinda misguided. They were around way longer.
Double knit polyester keisure suits were short-lived… supposed to look dressy and casual at the same time, and hip, as well, and they were none of those things.
I think maybe you and Tigressy were both too young to feel the horror of them at their height in the early 1970s, like when the best man at a friend’s wedding wore a mint green one with a floral shirt, in contrast with all the dark suits around him.
And yeah, there was plenty worse… but as a countercultural type myself, I may have liked some things that now make me cringe… like leather jackets with 18″ fringe, and tie-dyed bell bottoms with fancy woven ribbon around the hems.
But those things wereconsidered hip… Polyester leisure suits were always dorky and laughable, at least in my circle… Kinda like Sonny Bono trying to look hip in fake fur.
This was during a 2015 protest in Macedonia. The woman putting on lipstick is Jasmina Golubovska, who works for the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia.
She was standing in front of that officer for about 2 hours, during a standoff between protesters wanting to enter a government building and police in riot gear keeping them out.
She calmly applied red lipstick, then kissed the shield.
Heh – “All out of 8-track tapes” – some of my best memories are road trips as a kid with Dad playing 8-track tapes over and over until we had them all memorized.
My ex-husband and i owned an old 2nd hand Econoline van when we had our store in San Francisco. Technically, he owned it… I didn’t drive back then.
It had a built-in 8-track player, for which he bought what seemed like every used tape at the flea market, as long as it was rock, and not more than 50 cents. They filled the glove compartment and the space between the front seats, and overflowed.
One day we got to the van and found the driver’s side door and window broken… someone had apparently tried to crowbar the door open, then smashed the window instead…. They broke the glove box door, just for good measure, and stole all those shabby old tapes. But it was only maybe 20 bucks worth, not that we didn’t miss them.
The real bummer was the $200 or so we paid to get the door and window fixed.
The thing is, none of it was locked. They could have just opened the door and helped themselves.
Until I got this new car that texts me over and over if the door is left unlocked, I haven’t locked the car door in decades, for that very reason. I don’t leave much in it, and nothing I’d be upset about if it was taken, but please don’t break anything stealing it! Geez…
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Is that a treat i see?
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I’m not a fan of most stuff this “modern”, but this one I kinda like!
“The Berghoff, Chicago”
by Michael Birawer, 2004 oil on board
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The Crazy Horse Memorial in Black Hills, South Dakota
It honors the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse, who resisted U.S. government encroachment in the 19th century.
It was begun in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, invited by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear, who wanted a Native American monument to rival Mount Rushmore, and has been built entirely through private donations and visitor fees.
It’s planned to be the largest sculpture in the world, depicting Crazy Horse on horseback, pointing to his ancestral lands.
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I learned to drive in a “Three on the Tree”!
I learned in a four on the floor and an automatic (Dad had one of each), but I could handle the three on the tree just as well. I believe that was an old Ford pickup (starter button on the floor, vacuum wipers…old pickup).
Me too!
Same here. GMC Jimmy
No. I had two sticks on the floor.
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Good to watch while listening to “Dancing Queen”.
What isn’t?
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Safety first!
We all need someone to hold the ladder steady.
That reminds me — I have to take down my Christmas lights.
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Is her name Brandy?
She’s protecting it for you.
notice that the artist uses the color of the couch throughout the painting to tie it all together
You’ve trained yourself to notice these things. Thanks for sharing.
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OMG… I don’t need a look at it… I didn’t need to look at it then, and now I need to never look at it again.
There’s worse.
I had one of the athletic style.
A jogging suit.
Probably why all the guys my age like sweats.
Jogging suits are at least nominally sporting… though the all polyester ones are kinda misguided. They were around way longer.
Double knit polyester keisure suits were short-lived… supposed to look dressy and casual at the same time, and hip, as well, and they were none of those things.
I think maybe you and Tigressy were both too young to feel the horror of them at their height in the early 1970s, like when the best man at a friend’s wedding wore a mint green one with a floral shirt, in contrast with all the dark suits around him.
And yeah, there was plenty worse… but as a countercultural type myself, I may have liked some things that now make me cringe… like leather jackets with 18″ fringe, and tie-dyed bell bottoms with fancy woven ribbon around the hems.
But those things were considered hip… Polyester leisure suits were always dorky and laughable, at least in my circle… Kinda like Sonny Bono trying to look hip in fake fur.
I wore trousers like those up there myself back then – and looked good.
Had to tie them back when riding my bike, of course…
I owned the middle one. Yeccch!
Brudder’s first suit looked like picture 3. Dear old dad made him get a suit to go to a convention. DOD was not too happy with the chice.
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Gotta have your priorities in order.
This was during a 2015 protest in Macedonia. The woman putting on lipstick is Jasmina Golubovska, who works for the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia.
She was standing in front of that officer for about 2 hours, during a standoff between protesters wanting to enter a government building and police in riot gear keeping them out.
She calmly applied red lipstick, then kissed the shield.
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Must be Monty Python.
My exact thought.
More like me…
see the snowman?
Since Susan sent this in, I think we can all have confidence that this is the whole puzzle.
Well, I can confirm that it does have a snowman in it, if that’s any help.
Yup!
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Fire in the sky!
Smoke on the water…..
Any ghost riders around?
Yep!
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Is there a blessing for the bear?
Yes. God bless and keep the bear…Far from us!
also the Czar
I adopted it for my family.
The bear or the phrase?
My favourite ABBA song.
Heh – “All out of 8-track tapes” – some of my best memories are road trips as a kid with Dad playing 8-track tapes over and over until we had them all memorized.
I cut out the back of the glove box in my Volkswagen so I could put my 8-track tape player in it and keep it out of sight.
My ex-husband and i owned an old 2nd hand Econoline van when we had our store in San Francisco. Technically, he owned it… I didn’t drive back then.
It had a built-in 8-track player, for which he bought what seemed like every used tape at the flea market, as long as it was rock, and not more than 50 cents. They filled the glove compartment and the space between the front seats, and overflowed.
One day we got to the van and found the driver’s side door and window broken… someone had apparently tried to crowbar the door open, then smashed the window instead…. They broke the glove box door, just for good measure, and stole all those shabby old tapes. But it was only maybe 20 bucks worth, not that we didn’t miss them.
The real bummer was the $200 or so we paid to get the door and window fixed.
The thing is, none of it was locked. They could have just opened the door and helped themselves.
Until I got this new car that texts me over and over if the door is left unlocked, I haven’t locked the car door in decades, for that very reason. I don’t leave much in it, and nothing I’d be upset about if it was taken, but please don’t break anything stealing it! Geez…
So your thieves were deep thinkers, then. Probably philosophy majors.
I’d say probably dope majors.
LOL… The little red rectangle with the arrow covers the bottoms of the first two letters in the artist’s last name.
I thought, what an odd name for an artist… Eric Eraser.
Yup.
LOL!
There are LOTS of people who couldn’t figure some of these out.