Nils Barth🌻
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Nils Barth🌻
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Reposted by Nils Barth🌻
Georg Flegel, Two Tulips, 1630 watercolor
January 6, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Reposted by Nils Barth🌻
As the great Suketu Mehta wrote in the accompanying essay, "By 1643, only nineteen years after the first Walloon settlers founded New Amsterdam, 18 languages were already being
spoken in the city—among a population of a mere 500." To hell with fictions of a homogenous past, linguistic & otherwise.
January 3, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Found by Google reverse image search.
I was already familiar with the artist, but didn’t recognize the image, and fortunately, someone had posted it, with a citation.
The book is available on Amazon as an e-book reissue.
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Amazon.com: Vip tosses a party eBook : Pagano, Alexander, G., Astrid: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: Vip tosses a party eBook : Pagano, Alexander, G., Astrid: Kindle Store
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January 2, 2026 at 1:48 AM
See Virgil Partch aka VIP, who drew many cartoons about alcohol; he might be whom you have in mind.
(His style is distinctive, if it rings a bell.)
This image is from a chapter dealing with hangovers:
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In Praise of Partch #2, Hangovers
More stuff from Virgil Partch (or VIP), the pro-drinking 50’s cartoonist. These are from Vip Tosses a Party, which is a cook book with cartoons. This is Chapter X, it concerns hangovers. (cli…
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January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Virgil Partch (VIP), Vip Tosses a Party (1959), CHAPTER X: The Hangover and Some Cures (Not to Be Taken Seriously), bottom half of p. 94
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In Praise of Partch #2, Hangovers
More stuff from Virgil Partch (or VIP), the pro-drinking 50’s cartoonist. These are from Vip Tosses a Party, which is a cook book with cartoons. This is Chapter X, it concerns hangovers. (cli…
feedtim.wordpress.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 AM