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Slip into a plush penguin
From Chris Ambidge (one of the Wardens of the Spheniscid Zarchives) on Facebook this morning: (#1) [CA > AZ:] Arnold! Have you considered … penguin slippers? Keeping Feathers McGraw underfoot might...
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The naked scribe
From Tim Evanson on Facebook yesterday, this cover art by J.C. Leyendecker (1874-1951): The Literary Digest of 6/12/1909: (#1) Homoerotic soft porn in the style of classical sculpture (complete with a...
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Fangs for the memories
Very briefly: in entry 5 in the Waynoratu Nosferamanteau marathon, today, two anti-establishment vampires greet one another: A 1960s-style hippie on the right (peace symbol, long hair, headband, etc.),...
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Hats off to the vampires!
For yesterday, 1/18, in Bizarro, the 6th and I suppose last Waynoratu Nosferamanteau: The male nosferatu (holding a wineglass of what is presumably blood, and chatting with his young female companion...
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Beanies, baby
three tigers for ultimate January, and a day continuing the theme of late-January early-death birthdays: Robert Burns, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Edward Sapir in an earlier posting of mine...
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The two ages of Interwoven sock ads
Bubbled up recently on Facebook and elsewhere, references to two chapters in the history of American advertising: Interwoven-brand stockings as icons of male sexiness, first in the 1920s and 30s, then...
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Flagging DEI
(These are rough times, and I’m going to use some very rough language; I think the world would be a better place if we all just got comfortable with this language — and what it conveys — but I...
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A revilation of the NYT business department
I come to revile the New York Times‘s business department. Don’t tell me to complain to them; I’ve done that, and nothing came of it beyond my getting insulted by the reps on the phone (and this is how...
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DEI t-shirts
[Sexual acts discussed in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest] No, not like my excellent TeePublic DEI t-shirt — (#1) A shout-out for diversity, equity, and inclusion but a...
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Stair cruising
[Time to return to the world of raunchy men’s underwear ads; what follows is not for kids or the sexually modest] I have a verse (which is a play on a familiar comic poem): (#1) “Stair Cruising”, a...
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