PHOTO DUMP (3-25)
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March 29, 2025
A collection of photos taken during the past month by HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn. Also see the SCREENSHOTS series; and see HILOBROW’s Instagram feed.
An unusually large photo dump, this month. I’m sifting through and purging possessions, as Susan and I prepare to sell our home of the past 25 years.
GI Joe ephemera, I’m guessing from a trip I took to Paris in 1980. I gave away my GI Joe collection, but hung onto a few pieces of ephemera like this. “Couvre moi, Bob!”
Chiasmatic structure of a novel that I once contemplated writing, apparently.
After carting 75 boxes downstairs from the attic, this was the first box I opened. For several days after, I remained paralyzed with indecision.
Notes and drawings from the development phase of Ker-Punch!, an iPhone game that I developed in 2011 with Rick Pinchera.
Books on the way out…
British comics from back in the day. I put these aside to give to James Parker.
1996 letter of complaint from some guy to Paranoia magazine about a fake conspiracy theory that Scott Hamrah and I dreamed up. We’d gone too far!
Latin textbook that I never returned to my high school, c. 1984. With my doodles on the paper-bag cover. (Can you read the runes?)
Cornhole boards that Max built with my brother Matt, when I was working on the book UNBORED Games. LOTR designs by Max.
Sci-fi magazines featuring stories by Philip K. Dick.
From my mother’s journal, six days after I was born. For those of you wondering about little Josh’s non-regulated eating, thank goodness the Red Sox lost the World Series — so everyone could regain focus. A page later in the diary, I’ll be diagnosed with pyloric stenosis and head back to the hospital for emergency surgery.
Comic that Max and I made when they were 7. And I was 40.
My mother’s father, Lowell Selling, was a Detroit psychologist. I came across his scrapbook during the deacquisitioning effort.
Taking a break from house-clearing to make more YES-centric art with my mother.
“Regular Style” hair wax — In the mid-’80s, my friends and I used this terminology to describe an entire (engaged ironical, dandyish) way of life and worldview.
It’s become trendy for folks my age to claim that they played Dungeons & Dragons in the late ’70s and early ’80s. I’ve got the “receipts” to prove it, though.
HR (of Bad Brains)’s solo reggae, Boston and DC hardcore, Pussy Galore’s cover of Exile on Main Street, Seka, Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin bootlegs, music by friends (Brook Batteau) and selected by friends (Scott Hamrah, Jennifer Engel, etc). It’s a whole semiosphere. I no longer even own a cassette deck.
For a brief, shining moment c. 2001, my file cabinet was very organized.
It’s true, the folk-punk band I formed with John Dooley (and sometimes Kevin) Cradock c. 1983 recorded not one, not two, but three versions of our protest song “Reaganomics.” (The cassette album’s cover photo is a gory LEGO human sacrifice.) Elegant left-handed fountain-pen handwriting by Dooley.
HILOBROW friends Jonathan Pinchera and Juliette Plante at MOLAR, a group show in Jonathan’s “recently vacated illegal conversion apartment” in Brooklyn. Susan and I enjoyed a glimpse of new work by August Ramos, Maxi Glenn, Juliette Plante, Gabriel Rosen, Jackie Blue, Ben Cohen, Jonathan Pinchera, Laila Rosen, Nico Añón, Diana McCready, and Clay Allen. Shown here: Juliette’s artwork.
ALSO SEE: John Hilgart (ed.)’s HERMENAUTIC TAROT series | Josh Glenn’s VIRUS VIGILANTE series | & old-school HILOBROW series like BICYCLE KICK | CECI EST UNE PIPE | CHESS MATCH | EGGHEAD | FILE X | HILOBROW COVERS | LATF HIPSTER | HI-LO AMERICANA | PHRENOLOGY | PLUPERFECT PDA | SKRULLICISM.