#SPARS

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²American wartime recruitment poster for Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service US Navy (WAVES), the Marine Corps Women's Reserve (MCWR) and the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) (1944). Artwork by Steele Savage.

[archeolatry]

I've been severely tempted to make one of these into a shirt with Cricut and wear it to a concert. (Lemme know if you want it as an SVG so you can make your own. 😆)

[therebloger22]

Very serious question y'all. For Sparkstember this year do you all think we'll still have a day whatever or will it morph into a day for the new album?

[stone-cold-groove]

Your duty ashore... His afloat. U.S. Coast Guard SPARS enlistment poster - 1943.

[ltwilliammowett]

Yards, Gaffs and Booms

To distinguish between yards, gaffs and booms, remember the following:

• Yards – normally horizontal, attached by their centre at some height up a mast. They may be at right angles to the fore and aft line, or pulled round hard to either side. In harbour they were sometimes cocked-up to allow ships to berth alongside one another without tangling yards, since they usually projected beyond the ship’s side. 

(x)

They are also seen sent down (lowered from their normal place onto the deck) again usually in harbour and they could be over 30m long. Studding-sail, or stunsail booms, were extensions to the yards to allow extra areas of sail to be set in light weather. They were stowed underneath the yard and run out when needed.

• Booms – again mostly horizontal, and usually with one end attached to a mast on a swivel, and the other attached to a corner of a sail, whose foot may also be laced or otherwise secured along the boom.

(x)

• Gaffs – one end attached to the after side of a mast by a swivel, the other to the top corner of a sail. They were normally tilted up at an angle of around 40°, but the angle could be varied, and the gaff could also be lowered until it lay on top of the corresponding boom, if any.

All spars have gone through the same sequence of materials as masts

[wrong-alien]

Okay, I don’t know this band long and I think I might have missed post about it but why no one’s talking about how Ron singing “Mid-Atlantic” and “This angry young man”? It’s so sweet!

[musicthatyoucandanceto]

“smash hits” cover with ron & russell, 1980 💫

russell looks so moody!! ron still has his 1979 hair!! many delights to be found in this image :)

[luxeinferior]

!!!!!!!!!! after the show when they were talking to the crowd ron got choked and russ gave him a water bottle and i yelled STAY HYDRATED KING

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Additional info:

2. this was published as news on Sparks' website:

3. Alvin and the Chipmunks

4. Everyone has seen it, but anyway. The Russia Today Report video.

6. When I'm Sixty-Four (Bonus videos: you may also enjoy this version performed by Russell and the band Baby Lemonade and this performance of All You Need Is Love where Russell shares the stage with Jarvis Cocker and The Residents, among others.)

[Edit: dangit I forgot an option. Sparks also joined Facebook in 2007.]

[fijianroxylalonde]

Sparks fans be like "omggg hes so cute" and he looks like this

[therebloger22]

I have to show off Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte. Look at how clear that record is. My cork slip mat makes it look like a latte

[pinkedify]

gym bros 💪

[rv-there-yet]

6/3/24 - fuselage progress continued

[consulsmirror]

fucking obsessed with the uni town i live in