I was on the beach a couple of weeks back wondering similar about how fossils like these would have been perceived. They look almost like lettering:

Come off the ledge, Ken!

That whole set is incredible. Ramblin’ Rose with Wayne’s little shuffle dance is dynamite. (I’m also very jealous of Wayne’s clothes!)

Hefty one on the beach:

I think they should watch out for four goals.

Not much help but looks like an Our Price going off the neon above the counter and the “Cassettes” font.

So… it’s not just me who finds this deeply weird then?

Interesting little haul. More things to test in the rock tumbler:

Two Lane Blacktop, Cool Hand Luke, The Wrong Man, Inland Empire, Repo Man, Paris Texas… The Care Bears Movie.

Always so beautiful:

The Black Abbots (w. Russ Abbot on drums) have a real banger of a northern soul track from 1971. (I’ve yet to deep dive into The Grumbleweeds/Barron Knights back catalogue.)
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Some silent movie goers could lip read the actors. A war film remade as a talkie was less popular as the silent expletives from the original were removed. In “Three Weeks”, actress Aileen Pringle, whilst being carried by the lead, appears to say, “drop me, you bastard, and I’ll break your neck”.

Love “the mystery of magnets”! Great line.

One of my big regrets is never saying hello to Mr Ginsberg when I attended a very sparsely attended poetry reading of his in Austin, Texas c. 1989. I was passing through, ‘on the road‘, a teenager from northern England. Thought I’d come across as my usual weird and intense.

Thanks. You find such beautiful things.

Can I ask - not interested in the monetary value - but what happens to your finds once the FLO has had them. Are they returned to you or do they end up in museum collections? (Hopefully not a silly question.)