DanglinDon
@danglindon.bsky.social
He/him; younger twin. Former gifted child & ChicagoGay; current un[der]employed Midwestern embarrassment mit "un'aria di frociaggine." Occasionally ina-pro-pro--but mostly showing watches, pens, film cameras, & old records
Back in June, when Dad had a 3-week-stint in hospital out-of-town (& Mom stayed with him), I went thru some of the boxes at their new house & did some light re-arranging...setting-out some of Dad's books in the living room. It was then I re-connected with this gem from my childhood #ThingThursday
![Arranged on a green-&-white-plaid wool blanket, a hardback copy of Denis Gifford's a Pictorial History of Horror Movies [Hamlyn, 1973] rests for the viewer to see. The title of the work has "HORROR MOVIES" in yellow bubble letters; overlaid against Tom Chantrell's striking greenish-cast-images of a few of filmdom's most famous creepy characters, such as; Lon Chaney, Sr. as the Phantom; Peter Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein; both Béla Lugosi and Christopher Lee as Count Dracula (interestingly, Chantrell has added red blood dripping from the corner of each vampire's mouth); and a giant head of Frankenstein's monster (looking more like Glenn Strange or Lon Chaney, Jr. in the Jack Pierce makeup than Karloff). Underneath the dust jacket (in remarkable condition for as often as this book was consulted over the last 52 yrs), the red of the bookcloth binding makes a gorgeous contrast.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreih7mtgkdm5cxv5sls5f4dq2jiqzfuwif6aglkndzrzdzskjanyqcy@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Back in June, when Dad had a 3-week-stint in hospital out-of-town (& Mom stayed with him), I went thru some of the boxes at their new house & did some light re-arranging...setting-out some of Dad's books in the living room. It was then I re-connected with this gem from my childhood #ThingThursday
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I don’t CARE if it’s “””technically illegal””” you CAN’T stop me from drawing Batman on the toilet.
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I don’t CARE if it’s “””technically illegal””” you CAN’T stop me from drawing Batman on the toilet.
Seeing haircut-day-pic: "yeah!"
Seeing chest-day-pic: "YYYyyeEEESSSSssss!!" A tremendous Tuesday to you, dear!
Seeing chest-day-pic: "YYYyyeEEESSSSssss!!" A tremendous Tuesday to you, dear!
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Seeing haircut-day-pic: "yeah!"
Seeing chest-day-pic: "YYYyyeEEESSSSssss!!" A tremendous Tuesday to you, dear!
Seeing chest-day-pic: "YYYyyeEEESSSSssss!!" A tremendous Tuesday to you, dear!
As I continue to unbox yuletide items for display, a glimpse at one of the decoration sets my grandparents used to arrange in their bathroom (TubGurl Mrs. Claus sold seperately)
December 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
As I continue to unbox yuletide items for display, a glimpse at one of the decoration sets my grandparents used to arrange in their bathroom (TubGurl Mrs. Claus sold seperately)
thEEEtuhhhr-kids of all ages: when did "My Favorite Things" become a let's-fill-out-this-tracklist "Christmas" tune? I'm assuming in the '60s-crush of holiday albums a la Vikki Carr & [*braces*] Tiny Tim--& I'm glad Dick & Ockie get a holiday freespace--but that song doesn't scream "holidays" to me.
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
thEEEtuhhhr-kids of all ages: when did "My Favorite Things" become a let's-fill-out-this-tracklist "Christmas" tune? I'm assuming in the '60s-crush of holiday albums a la Vikki Carr & [*braces*] Tiny Tim--& I'm glad Dick & Ockie get a holiday freespace--but that song doesn't scream "holidays" to me.
Film-fridge holds the coolllldest beer...
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Film-fridge holds the coolllldest beer...
This little fucker's just discovered a taste for over-easy-eggs, & now I fear I'll never have a breakfast again at my parents' without her begging for a taste (she likes the yolks)
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This little fucker's just discovered a taste for over-easy-eggs, & now I fear I'll never have a breakfast again at my parents' without her begging for a taste (she likes the yolks)
One of the only days I can wear this sweater-- #Krampusnacht #SktNikolauskommtheuteAbend
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
One of the only days I can wear this sweater-- #Krampusnacht #SktNikolauskommtheuteAbend
If you break more than one finger, Taco Bell will give you a free CrunchWrapSupreme for each time CPT code 26720 appears on your itemized urgent care bill
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
If you break more than one finger, Taco Bell will give you a free CrunchWrapSupreme for each time CPT code 26720 appears on your itemized urgent care bill
I missed #ThingThursday last week on account of Thanksgiving, but @sadknob.bsky.social might most appreciate what I'd set-aside to share: a mid-'30s Marathon-brand-combination-lighter-&-cigarette-case (get a load of that flame!--& space for over half a pack of unfiltered ciggies)
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I missed #ThingThursday last week on account of Thanksgiving, but @sadknob.bsky.social might most appreciate what I'd set-aside to share: a mid-'30s Marathon-brand-combination-lighter-&-cigarette-case (get a load of that flame!--& space for over half a pack of unfiltered ciggies)
Received a set of C*pit*lOne e-Mails indicating "Elizabeth" decided to update my account info--only, I don't have an active C*pit*lOne account...and my name ain't Elizabeth.
If y'all want to steal my identity, go a-fucking-head. I haven't received a paycheck in over 3 yrs. Do your best w/my worst.
If y'all want to steal my identity, go a-fucking-head. I haven't received a paycheck in over 3 yrs. Do your best w/my worst.
December 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Received a set of C*pit*lOne e-Mails indicating "Elizabeth" decided to update my account info--only, I don't have an active C*pit*lOne account...and my name ain't Elizabeth.
If y'all want to steal my identity, go a-fucking-head. I haven't received a paycheck in over 3 yrs. Do your best w/my worst.
If y'all want to steal my identity, go a-fucking-head. I haven't received a paycheck in over 3 yrs. Do your best w/my worst.
Hey, FotoFriends! I finally developed that suspiciously-ancient-roll of KodakGold100 that I shot for last December's #ShittyCameraChallenge & I'll be sharing some favorite images from the roll--if y'all need some inspiration for this year's holiday round...check the thread below for updates!
I don't believe I've had a Sunday delivery by any Postal Service since I was a student in Austria 20+yrs ago, but today, my @shittychallenge.bsky.social camera arrived, with glad tidings from Gigi...looks like I might be shooting 35mm for the 1st time in 2 yrs...
#AllHailtheElderGods
#AllHailtheElderGods
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Hey, FotoFriends! I finally developed that suspiciously-ancient-roll of KodakGold100 that I shot for last December's #ShittyCameraChallenge & I'll be sharing some favorite images from the roll--if y'all need some inspiration for this year's holiday round...check the thread below for updates!
Continuing the Over30SelfieThread, with another 44Reg
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Continuing the Over30SelfieThread, with another 44Reg
I sent my nephew a recording of an answering machine message left by my great-grandmother (his great-great-grandmother) 7 or 8 yrs before he "was bornt" (as great-grandma would've said). The Boy has MADE IT MY RINGTONE ON HIS PHONE. #Proverbs22six
#TrainIpaChild
#TrainIpaChild
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I sent my nephew a recording of an answering machine message left by my great-grandmother (his great-great-grandmother) 7 or 8 yrs before he "was bornt" (as great-grandma would've said). The Boy has MADE IT MY RINGTONE ON HIS PHONE. #Proverbs22six
#TrainIpaChild
#TrainIpaChild
A story within the picture:
November 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A story within the picture:
Severely underrated sk@t
you get two
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Severely underrated sk@t
When you shoot everyday scenes with an uncoated glass lens, you often capture timeless images (even if you were a couple inches off on your focusing)...
![Geriatric-pittie (just under 15 yrs old) with black & brown brendle markings over a white coat sits on a purple/gray/white woven blanket, her brown eyes looking left, just past the lady [whose red-painted-toenails are framed in her Puma camo-sandal just out-of-focus on the left] on a grassy field. Taken on Kodak Portra800 120 color film with a ca. 1934 Rolleiflex Old Standard [6RF621] twin lens reflex film camera bearing a Zeiss Tessar f3.8 (uncoated); developing & scanning by meeeee](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreigimt4nsexyddeelohq5gtpk7ri5ts2zrijgiucmw6rgef7qurabi@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
When you shoot everyday scenes with an uncoated glass lens, you often capture timeless images (even if you were a couple inches off on your focusing)...
Just about to do something to help me develop those 4 rolls of color film I've had ready since last Christmas (maybe this will also help me finish other color rolls floating around)
![Bearded bloated guy [covered in a white apron showing artistic renderings of mid-20th-century film cameras in grayscales] looks over his oval readers while standing in front of his color powder envelopes, just before grabbing distilled water for mixture. Above the chemical components, 2 rather anemic houseplants gasp for light in a tiny window.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreiedg3a5ls2wxu6c6gfopxlfeglpnyil7q2tfqfjg72xiguknfg63q@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Just about to do something to help me develop those 4 rolls of color film I've had ready since last Christmas (maybe this will also help me finish other color rolls floating around)
The funny thing about this shot is my eyes look just as tired now, 15 yrs later
Sk@t you from a different era
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The funny thing about this shot is my eyes look just as tired now, 15 yrs later
"Puppy Prayer" (she's actually asleep & sniffing part of the blanket to this bed that smells like her dog-friend)
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Puppy Prayer" (she's actually asleep & sniffing part of the blanket to this bed that smells like her dog-friend)
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
![Zeppo & Groucho & Chico & Harpo Marx in the film adaptation of The Cocoanuts [1929, Paramount; dir. Robt. Florey & Jos. Santley]. Zeppo is holding back Groucho (who is angrily peeling-off his jacket) from trying to fight with Harpo (who is swinging his bulb-horn-cane at Groucho's head--with Chico standing between Groucho & Harpo, trying to get everyone to be quiet.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vp6ndksfu42md65257kmdjkt/bafkreigwvhdmccklcegfasuqymhyq6v3iaw7f36qdgbnhievblhjr6zu34@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
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Some of my odd jobs:
1. v/o talent for an AM radio morning show (my grandparents & their friends heard all my spots)
2. calligrapher for a Chicago bank's merit awards
3. school photographer
4. local theater pit musician
5. English tutor (taught my Austrian student proper past participle of "shit")
1. v/o talent for an AM radio morning show (my grandparents & their friends heard all my spots)
2. calligrapher for a Chicago bank's merit awards
3. school photographer
4. local theater pit musician
5. English tutor (taught my Austrian student proper past participle of "shit")
Some jobs ive done
1. Video store clerk
2. Bouncer (for Destiny’s Child)
3. Composer/lyricist
4. Film journalist
5. Performer in Chicago the musical, Ella Enchanted, Eastenders
6. Comic artist
7. Concept artist for TV / Film
8. PT & popup gym owner
9. Glee tribute act
10. A capella ICCA judge
1. Video store clerk
2. Bouncer (for Destiny’s Child)
3. Composer/lyricist
4. Film journalist
5. Performer in Chicago the musical, Ella Enchanted, Eastenders
6. Comic artist
7. Concept artist for TV / Film
8. PT & popup gym owner
9. Glee tribute act
10. A capella ICCA judge
🙋🏻♂️ Introducing myself with some jobs I’ve done apart from music and science writing
1. Pet care @ boarding kennels
2. Woolworths music desk (RIP)
3. Clinical trials statistician
4. Night school maths tutor
5. Ice cream shop (still want to have my own someday, since I live in an old dairy now)
1. Pet care @ boarding kennels
2. Woolworths music desk (RIP)
3. Clinical trials statistician
4. Night school maths tutor
5. Ice cream shop (still want to have my own someday, since I live in an old dairy now)
November 17, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Some of my odd jobs:
1. v/o talent for an AM radio morning show (my grandparents & their friends heard all my spots)
2. calligrapher for a Chicago bank's merit awards
3. school photographer
4. local theater pit musician
5. English tutor (taught my Austrian student proper past participle of "shit")
1. v/o talent for an AM radio morning show (my grandparents & their friends heard all my spots)
2. calligrapher for a Chicago bank's merit awards
3. school photographer
4. local theater pit musician
5. English tutor (taught my Austrian student proper past participle of "shit")
Know what's tremendously disheartening? Taking all day to clear a driveway & 2 vehicles encased in snow, only to have more snow cover- (& now ice-)over all that (the white expanse in the driveway seen to the right in this video of more snow [illuminated by streetlight] was the hood of a blue truck)
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Know what's tremendously disheartening? Taking all day to clear a driveway & 2 vehicles encased in snow, only to have more snow cover- (& now ice-)over all that (the white expanse in the driveway seen to the right in this video of more snow [illuminated by streetlight] was the hood of a blue truck)
Well, I'm having fun outside to-day...(video this time includes alt-text in the audio)
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Well, I'm having fun outside to-day...(video this time includes alt-text in the audio)
AT LONG LAST: parents' unfriendly neighbor (whose 6-foot-tall-shed has routinely had a door blow off & sit--for weeks--just over the property line, killing my parents' grass) is finally re-organizing shed contents. Stepped out for a schmoke & heard loud bangs & exasperated sighs coming from the area
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
AT LONG LAST: parents' unfriendly neighbor (whose 6-foot-tall-shed has routinely had a door blow off & sit--for weeks--just over the property line, killing my parents' grass) is finally re-organizing shed contents. Stepped out for a schmoke & heard loud bangs & exasperated sighs coming from the area