This seller on Etsy features original wiener dog related art:
But if it was a real coffee company...
As well as original whale related art:
Get some.
|
|||||
|
The private library of some gentleman named William E. Self (“Important English And American Literature”) was recently auctioned off at Christie’s. The highlights were items from Self’s (nearly positive we’re not talking about the basketball coach here) Poe (cue Troy McClure “One of our greatest writers.”) collection: $362,500 for an autographed manuscript of two poems, $662,500 for Tamerlane and Other Poems (“FIRST EDITION OF POE’S LEGENDARY FIRST BOOK: THE MOST CELEBRATED RARITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. ONE OF ONLY TWELVE COPIES KNOWN, AND ONLY ONE OF TWO IN PRIVATE HANDS.”), and $830,500 for Autograph manuscript verses, the first 8 stanzas (of 16) of “For Annie (“Thank Heaven: the crisis — the danger is past….”) But I’m sure you’re like me, and you’re probably thinking. “Poe was a drunk. What about my man Herman Melville.” Funny you should ask. A first edition copy of the English edition, published a month before the American version, and 35 passages smaller, fetched $43,750.  First Edition English copy of Moby Dick by Herman Melville A first edition American copy was auctioned for $32,500  First Edition American copy of Moby Dick by Herman Melville  A blue whale, the largest animal that every lived (on earth) But if you guessed that Global Warming might be one of the reasons, you guessed right…but I’m getting ahead of myself. Scientists at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography have been recording blue whale songs as far back as the 60′s, and
Possible reasons: noise pollution, new mating strategies, and changing blue whale demographics. But scientists remain unconvinced that any of these are truly the reason for the lower singing voices. It’s a mystery. Read more about it here.  Get me to antiques roadshow. Stat! The newly discovered piece tells the story of an encounter with Indians in Tierra Del Fuego. A similar piece by the same scrimshander – Pte James Bute of the HMS Beagle – sold at auction for over 40,000 pounds as recently as last month. Only five other examples of Bute’s work, which chronicled one of history’s most important and momentous discovery expeditions, are known to exist. Along with the scrimshaw, several letters from the original owner to Darwin himself were discovered. And from the looks of this sneak preview, it’s every bit as f’d up as you’d hope it would be.  The Prombron from the Dartz Group There’s probably no place on earth where the perils of new money are more evident than Russia. For your consideration I submit the $1.5M Monaco Red Diamond Edition Dartz Combat T98 Prombron. Features include: “matte ruby red paintjob, gold-plated bulletproof windows, 22′ Kremlin Red Star bulletproof wheels, tungsten and white gold gauges decorated with diamonds and rubies, an additional outside kevlar coating, custom Vertu mobile phone with a panic button, and, yes, a ‘whale penis leather’ interior.”  Paul Patkotak of Barrow, AK killed himself that whale! Earlier this week, Paul Patkotak of Barrow’s Panigeo crew killed the whale pictured above. It’s a bit unclear from the blog post about it if he harpooned it or lanced it, or if he lanced it with a harpoon…but either way, he’s credited with killing the 32 foot whale. Paul is a nine year old fourth grader at Ipalook Elementary School and “is very into his culture. He loves to go whaling with his uncle Qulliuq Pebley, who is the Captian of Panigeo Crew” “The family was overjoyed in tears when they heard that their 9-year-old Paul harpooned the 32′ 7″ whale.” Here’s the thing, though…I want you to go find a map of Alaska, look at it, and point to the place where you’d think human beings would be LEAST likely to live. And that’s where Barrow, Alaska is…it’s one of the northernmost cities in the entire world, and the northernmost in the US. Temperatures drop below freezing pretty much every day of the year there, and only get above freezing about 100 days per year. It’s also a desert, averaging less that five inches of precipitation per year. According to wikipedia: “On November 18 or 19 the sun goes down, and remains below the horizon for about 65 days until it re-appears, normally on January 22 or January 23.” That’s hardcore. (And Will Rogers died in a plane crash there.)  An albatross drafting on a killer whale dorsal fin Scientists have mounted lipstick-sized cameras on the backs of some brown-backed albatrosses and have been piecing together new information about their lives from nearly 30,000 photos. In the photo above, some albatrosses follow a killer whale, a previously undocumented behavior – although, the birds have been known to follow fishing boats and schools of tuna. |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Whales and Wiener Dogs - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
Recent Comments