Dock Ellis

Forty years ago today in 1970, Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres while under the influence of LSD.

Keven McAlester's excellent story about the incident and Ellis' life is here; the Baseball Reliquary's entry on the pitcher is here. Ellis died in 2008 at age 63.

In 1993, Barbara Manning's S.F. Seals (taking their name from San Francisco's legendary old Pacific Coast League team) released The Baseball Trilogy EP, from which this pretty kickass song is taken.

S.F. Seals - Dock Ellis



Image: Got Me Floating (2008) by Jay Kaplan.

Honki ponki, part 2

This would be OOIOO's all-kinds-of-lovely cover of Turkish singer Şenay's 1980 hit 'Honki Ponki', alluded to in my previous post.

OOIOO - Honki Ponki



Meanwhile, Mundos Disparatados (2009) by Buenos Aires-based artist Pablo Gamba seems apt. Have a nice day.

Don't cut your hair

Marlene Haring's Because Every Hair is Different (
2005-2009), recently shown at the Vienna Art Week. Below, courtesy of On An Overgrown Path, is the poster in context.



Stereo Total - The Monster

Koi no dorei

No. 6 from the series 'Moge mijn dood zo zuiver zijn als het breken van kristal' (May my death be as pure as the breaking of crystal) by Dutch artist Liselotte de Groot (2007)

Chiyo Okumura - Koi No Dorei

Books by their covers

Go over to A Journey Round My Skull and scroll through the eye-popping gallery of vintage Slovak and Czech book covers; if you have another ten minutes, sit down with Momus here while he talks you through a slideshow of his favourite Japanese book jackets. One is reminded as ever of how graphic design can affect everyday life, and, in the case of literature, be the beginning of an intellectual seduction.

Reckless and beautiful

I recently stumbled across the work of illustrator Mimi Leung, a 2007 graduate of the Royal College of Art in London. The picture above is called Parachute. According to her bio, "She currently lives in a small village at the foot of a big mountain in the countryside of Hong Kong, spending her time painting and looking for fun things to brighten up her day. She enjoys clashing colours and tries to use them recklessly in her work." Sounds like a woman after our own heart.

View her portfolio here and here; she blogs here.