Feb
21st
Tue
21st
Feb
20th
Mon
20th
Totally Inappropriate Presidents’ Day Tribute on Flickr.
I did this one last year, but I think it bears reposting on this, the most sacred of bank holidays.
Feb
18th
Sat
18th
Carole King “The Road To Nowhere” 1967 single (by skawashers) —Michael Daddino insightfully compares this one to “All Tomorrow’s Parties.” Fantastic.
At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle. At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.
— John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com —This may be the only use of “apprenticed to a pirate” outside of Gilbert & Sullivan. Better still, it’s non-fiction.
Feb
16th
Thu
16th
The Fall’s landmark album Hex Enduction Hour came out February 16, 1982. Here’s “Fortress/Deer Park” from it. You have no idea how hard it is for me not to just post the whole damn album.
Feb
15th
Wed
15th
Brown’s extensive contacts helped to keep his club busy until disaster struck in 1963, when his “sleeping” business partner, Jack Ruby, shot President Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, live on television. (via Sir Lattimore Brown - Telegraph) —An obit for arguably the most unlucky soul singer ever. Not fiction. Thanks to Yoz et al. for the tip.
Feb
6th
Mon
6th
“Then an evil supervillain in a chef’s costume invades their space wielding a deadly blender and subjects them to PG-13-rated terror until the boy half of the equation gets himself shot while warning the Judges about the threat, after which Dredd kills the bad people and the boy dies clutching a rose — HIS LOVER IS NAMED “ROSIE” YOU SEE — having cleared villainous landmines from the beloved garden that symbolizes the promise of life and peace and love and etc.” (via Dredd Reckoning: The Complete Case Files 17) —Joe McCulloch and I discuss Garth Ennis’s Judge Dredd, as well as the Punisher, Chris Cunningham, “Before Watchmen,” etc.
Jan
30th
Mon
30th
The conventions of the form—the dimly lit stacks, the librarian’s mask of thick glasses and hair tied into a bun, et cetera—are, of course, well known. Unlike video porn, where these conventions are typically used as a wholesale substitute for narrative, porn books still feel the compulsion to tell a story, to make the glasses and bun mean something. I was curious just what story these new books were telling. What does our most current version of the librarian fantasy say about us? To answer this question, I visited the library. (via Paris Review – Checking Out, Avi Steinberg) —thanks to RKB for the tip
Jan
21st
Sat
21st
Merlin Electronic Game Commercial 1978 (by ilovetvcommercials80)
Yes, they told me this was going to happen: getting jingles from 34 years ago stuck in my head. DAMMIT
Jan
16th
Mon
16th
adicolor pink (by craizyman) —Thank you, Dafna, for providing this response to the other pink video.
