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Vintage Handsaw Advertisement

Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2014 by

A wonderful handsaw design from 1887. Advertisements

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Fatten up!

Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by

Apparently, this sold better than Coca-Cola in 1890: Tasteless AND makes you fat!

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pack it on!

Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2012 by

Oh how things change.  Cheap, abundant food, and no physical labor.

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Lightening my load

Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 by

About an addiction I didn’t even realize I had. It seems that minimalism is the word du jour around the internet these days.  Tiny houses, the 100 Thing Challenge, Non-Conformist work strategies, and urban homesteaders are filling blog-space with ideas … Continue reading →

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Television, the Drug of Choice

Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2012 by

“Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.” Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of … Continue reading →

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