Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Friday, April 22, 2016

Waitin' for the Weekend

This week, a little something different:

Unknown muscleman "Apollo," age 22, circa 1900

Bobby Pandur, 1912

The great Eugen Sandow, posing as the Farnese Hercules, 1893

The Reuter Brothers, circa 1900

Stereoscopic view of two unknown models, late 19th century

2 comments:

Davis said...: They're a bit old even for me - ;-); April 23, 2016 at 8:37 AM
Russ Manley said...: Oh but I can assure you they are in a most remarkable state of preservation, after years of careful, secure storage in an oil bath. Almost as good as new, one might say. And of course they don't make them like that anymore.

Perhaps you might like to try one on approval for thirty days, with no obligation?; April 23, 2016 at 1:47 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu