Happy Fluffy Furry Friday!

Sorry, I'm in more of a fluffy furry than fishnets mood due to this bizarre vintage ad that hasn't yet been fully appreciated over at Akubi Zone.
Can anyone translate this 1967 ad?

BTW, I can't believe that fuckyeahdogs has over 4000 followers now.

"Striparama" Exotica - New! Different!

Fetich? I didn't know it was once spelled that way.


Via this somewhat NSFW Exotica link.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!
Wow, what a good novel! Very intense. It certainly got my mind off of Turing's boobs. I can't believe I didn't discover it sooner, but I do have many piles of books everywhere.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die!

This and many other bizarre posters can be found at Wrong side of the art via PCL LinkDump.

UPDATE: I fixed the link above. Also, forgot to mention that this old movie poster reminds me of the horrid Russian experiment with a dog:



I believe this is the full version of the film:



UPDATE #2: It appears to be some sort of Schiavo-related remix.

UPDATE #3: WTF? Ogg forwarded me this utterly screwed up formula that suggested:
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 26%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 74%

Thorazine for Children!

Thorazine advertisement, 1959

for prompt control of
nausea and vomiting
in children
THORAZINE* Syrup
and Suppositories
In the over 1,500,000 children in whom 'Thorazine' has been
used, jaundice or agranulocytosis has never been reported.

Feng Shui Cereal

Feng Shui Cereal Ad by =aidon
Breakfast Cereal is salvation.

If proper feng shui can sell a house these days, cereal is easy.

Keroro Feng Shui by ~MyPersonalGackt

Cute Octobabies!


Digg Kris. I have a semi-lost sister named Kristen who may or may not be Kris.

Arthur the Octopus

"They always want me to say who is the best writer in America today, and I can't think of any name but Al Capp... One of the symptoms or diagnostics of literature should be that it is read, that it amuses, moves, instructs, changes and criticizes people. And who in the world does that more than Capp? I think Capp may very possibly be the best writer in the world today."
-John Steinbeck, 1953
Biography: Al Capp 2- A CAPPital Offense

L'il Abner Salutes Orange Crush!

Th'Offishul Drink of Dogpatch!

"With Li'l Abner," writes Richard Marschall, "Capp was calling society absurd, not just silly; human nature not simply misguided, but irredeemably and irreducibly corrupt. Unlike any other strip, and indeed unlike many other pieces of literature, Li'l Abner was more than a satire of the human condition. It was a commentary on human nature itself."

I'm not exactly sure what's going on with Moonbeam and the pig.



Wasn't L'il Abner an influence on Robert Crumb? Odd memories of encountering Crumb's brother meditating on Market St. to be told later...

More NSFW Purple Haze at Zillow Book!

Eat more broccoli

Danish public health ad via Sexoteric

How to eat well in spite of it all

via Found in Mom's Basement: Vintage ad for Kraft mac & cheese resigns itself to 1975's crappy economy
Tonight's dinner doesn't have to look like today's economy.

Regarding eating well I would like to point you in this direction.

Given the degree of the overall SHTF, I've found it necessary to remain in Hillary Ignore mode.

Big Tentacles! フジサワ 新ピロエースCM ８０年代

Hat tip to Ogg for this bizarre find!

Random Surrealism from Google Ads?

As I've mentioned before, the Google ads are here for pure entertainment value (like the Random Surrealism Generator) and certainly do not generate any sweet passive income - I purposely place them in areas one isn't likely to accidentally click.
Why would there be a TogetherChristian.com - Where Christians Join FREE - ad here? I don't even know what a "Christian" per se is! Bizarre.
Anyway there seems to be a lack of interest in the 6 Degrees of Casey to Ashley Alexandra Dupre game. How about a new 6 Degrees of Hillary Clinton game instead?

BREAKING NEWS update: Pornsaint Anna the Nerd!

This a computer?

You bet your sweet telex operator it is!

Bizarrely entertaining vintage daze!


More via El blog Ausente

Times sure have changed, but Shillary sure hasn't.

Inhaled. Burned. Thrown away.

This is one of 20 bizarre Japanese smoking manners ads featured at InventorSpot.

12) "Inhaled. Burned. Thrown away. If it were anything but a cigarette, it would surely be crying."
Could this be the world's first Emo cigarette ad? I really feel for that poor, discarded cigarette butt; left behind, all bent & broken, nothing left but to decay into dust like windblown autumn leaves... hey, now I'm doing it! And tell me a chick, er, a woman didn't write this ad. Boy meets cig, boy uses cig for his own vile and selfish purposes, boy dumps cig like... well, like a used-up cig. Call it catharsis, lightly scented with menthol.

There's nothing like good 1950's camp - and Marilyn Monroe

I'm currently watching the Seven Year Itch...



Marilyn via SReed99342
After enjoying The Seven Year Itch there's some annoying perm and Boomer era Harvard Law schoool film which reminded me of this...

Nietzsche 2008!

Hat tip to Wagga for this find.

Virtual Absinthe Museum

I just happened to come across the rather intriguing collection at The Virtual Absinthe Museum.

It run by UK-based Oxygenee Ltd, a UK-based firm "operating in the field of absinthe, and rare and ancient spirits." They host Absinthe Classics where one can purchase from a variety of absinthe. Perhaps just the right holiday present for someone special!



A Baccarat uranium glass liqueur set from between 1830 and 1860.

Absinthe Blog: L’ Absinthe Rend Fou

The Dr. Wayne Dyer and Robert Kiyosaki Connection

BREAKING NEWS Update!
A visual metaphor of Dr. Wayne Dyer "interconnecting" naive people's money with his bank account...
connected. by ~kisla-katzen

Well, I did some Googling to see how many others might be annoyed by Dr. Wayne Dyer and similar crap that is aired during PBS pledge drives and discovered a Kiyosaki connection.

From Pledging Allegiance, or March Madness?

Many of the letters, probably a majority, made specific critical references to two of the leading pledge drive special programs distributed to the more than 300 local stations affiliated with PBS: One is the basic hour-long (it can extend for much more than an hour with the local station pledge breaks included) program of Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of best-selling books on investment, with a heavy emphasis on real estate, and personal finance advice. The other involves presentations of up to four hours by psychologist and self-help guru Wayne Dyer, Ph.D., described as "public television's favorite teacher of transformational wisdom" and the author of "Your Erroneous Zones," "Pulling Your Own Strings" and "The Power of Intention."

...

I've always considered myself a member of the "core" audience for public broadcasting, and as such, I recoil in horror at the fundraising programs embraced by the PBS affiliates in the Carolinas. Dr. Wayne Dyer must be laughing all the way to the bank. That he can speak for hours in platitudes and say nothing of substance is annoying enough; that he is lining his pockets in the process (I assume he's getting paid) is doubly offensive.

Reid Spencer, Davidson, NC

I am really appalled at your labeling Dr. Wayne Dyer "America's foremost spiritual guide & mentor." Is Dr. Dyer aware you are calling him such? It's presumptuously arrogant of you to do so, let alone for anyone to claim such for themselves. Is he America's pope? Has he replaced God? Shame on PBS!

Paul Bird, Huntington, WV

I was about to make a donation to PBS as I love the quality of programs offered. I will not donate after, by accident, I saw a broadcast of the program "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." I was unpleasantly surprised that PBS is lowering its standard to broadcast this type of scam artist. This is worst program ever and I hope it will be discontinued soon. This is viewer betrayal in the worst sense.

Laguna Hillas, CA

I was appalled watching "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" on a local PBS affiliate tonight. The principal speaker, Robert Kiyosaki, was offering highly controversial and questionable financial advice. His recommendations include avoiding conventional diversified investments (especially stock and bond funds) and instead buying only real estate. The format was one of an inspirational seminar where Kiyosaki criticizes time-honored investment advice as for losers and his approach as the road to riches. At pledge breaks, he offers his books and other media, which is I wouldn't be surprised were his actual road to riches. It would not be unusual to see such a program as a late-night infomercial. But for PBS to air this program and offer his material with donations gives this show an air of respectability that is completely unexpected. At best, PBS is showing a very unbalanced presentation that would be judged by most economists as rubbish and that directly benefits its speaker financially. At worst, PBS, by lending its reputation for integrity and accuracy to this program, is duping gullible listeners into following his advice and possibly leading them to financial ruin.

Michael Riley, New York, NY

This program lacked content — to say the least. Neither was there any financial planning or retirement advice given by Mr. Kiyosaki; he seemed to take pleasure in belittling people who go to college to get a degree. It also seemed like Mr. Kiyosaki was more interested in using the as a forum to pitch his products. I would have expected PBS to have done their due diligence and reviewed the content for worthiness before airing it. After sitting through 90 minutes, I felt like I was watching an infomercial and it reflects rather poorly on what PBS stands for.

Coppell, TX

From Madness Again. It Must Be March.

I wish to add my voice to those deploring the growing commercialization of PBS and its affiliates, and in particular its readiness to associate intimately and uncritically with pseudo-scientific New Age religion as touted by the likes of Wayne Dyer. When PBS presents such one-sided, evangelical programming as Dyer's for many hours, year in and year out, during ever more frequent pledge drives, simple reason sees this is as effectively an endorsement of the content therein, official shoulder-shrugging denials notwithstanding. That PBS managers cannot recognize, or choose to disregard, the double-talking, manipulative, commercialized and frankly sectarian nature of this material, and their complicity in making it seem legitimate and uncontroversial, is either a testament to their gullibility or to an unprincipled, blindered quest for pledge money however it's obtained. Whichever the reason, this tack has become sufficiently distressing for me and other supporters of PBS to now withhold our donations, until responsibility is restored. PBS has been receiving this feedback for years now, and yet no change has occurred, nor any real recognition of the depth of this ethical lapse. To suggest that the survival of PBS is in jeopardy no longer moves us to help — we consider it already moribund at the hands of a utilitarian, corporate obtuseness run rampant. Sorry to be blunt, but more mild appeals have fallen on deaf ears. There are not unlimited chances to listen to friends before they surrender you to your own folly. If the former philosophy of sober educational programming based on reason and balanced skepticism does not return to PBS, it will die a deserved death, degraded and disgraced in its final years, and will be mourned only for what it had been in its prime, not for what it became.

Bruce Springsteen, Lawrence, KS


...Wouldn't reruns (even REALLY old ones) or even a test pattern, be better than airing intelligence-insulting snake-oil salesmen and fake garden-gurus dispensing dubious information? What would it take to return to those PBS glory days, I wonder? A concerned viewer . . .

Baton Rouge, LA


PBS has changed. Several minutes of advertising before each show. I watch PBS to escape the hype. All weekend New Age shows about love, female empowerment, yoga, investing, and similar nonsense appear to be more infomercials. Hours and hours of "classic" rock and pop, often performed poorly by the elderly original artist. I watch PBS to see new and different things. If I wanted so much music, I'd watch any of many cable channels dedicated to music. PBS used to have a whole evening of great programming. Now there's maybe an hour a night of good programming and the rest is junk. I guess PBS is going the way of commercial network television, but with one difference. In addition to airing junk programming, PBS caters to the affluent who can contribute big bucks. I guess that makes PBS more like a political party than a television station for the masses.

Williamsburg, VA


I concur with Mr. Reid Spencer's e-mail observation of Dr. Dwayne Dyer's "hours of platitudes" with "nothing of substance" while "lining his pockets" as a double insult. This pop pseudo spiritualist is succeeding with his "intention" to convince us, in his self-laudatory and trumpeting manner, that he is humble and enlightened (along with his kid geniuses) while "interconnecting" naive people's money with his bank account. Hey, it worked for him. I would expect more sophistication from PBS in the selection of subjects for true spiritualism. Seek and you shall find.

Kevin Finnegan, Minneapolis, MN


In other news, I thought this Eiffal Tower of condoms was rather cute.

Hitchcock Wiki and Gallery

If you're a Hitchcock fan check out the impressive gallery at Hitchcockwiki (via RaShOmoN).





In other news...
What Would Jesus Do Without a Lawyer?




Lenora Claire: I've always said art much like breasts should be in your face. Since this is a show about art and breasts I started thinking of taking something as classic as a typical nativity scene and giving it a pop twist. I really feel that is the Virgin Mary found herself knocked up today that she would have to go work at Hooters to support the baby Jesus. Like everything I do there are high brow and low brow elements. It's all about subversion.
The Most Offensive Xmas Art Show Hits Hollywood

Buy Bollywood!

As a "crappy bollywood" blogger, I thought I would bring this article to your attention: Time to short Facebook, buy Bollywood.

While the story is the same throughout most of the media in India -- from newspapers to radio to pure Internet companies -- nowhere is this more the case then in the Indian film industry, better-known to many as Bollywood.

PriceWaterhouse Coopers forecasts that India is going to have the fastest growing media and entertainment industry in the world, rising at a compound growth rate of 18.5% between 2006 and 2011. The film business alone is expected to double in size during that period, to some $4.4 billion.

And what is perhaps most uniquely fascinating about the movie business in India is how popular it is domestically -- some 95% of movie tickets sold in India are to see Indian films (this despite the increasing availability of dubbed versions of popular Hollywood films and the somewhat overdue arrival of multiplex theaters offering filmgoers much greater choice.)

I wonder what's going on with the whip?

And the scissors?


Paheli YET AGAIN by Fleagirl by ~bollywoodfanclub

The Beginning and the End of Life

In The Bush Mixed media on antique photo by Mia Mäkilä


My Victorian Vampire Mixed media on antique photo by Mia Mäkilä


Gothica II Mixed media on antique photo by Mia Mäkilä



Fishnets widget!