Hearing the coughs and sneezes of others during my errands today reminded me of this vintage gem.
Stay healthy this winter, folks. Avoid people with insane projectile rocket coughs.
Tag: vintage
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I can’t believe this book is only 22 years old.
I love how the title equates females routines with great tragedy and struggle, as if you would find this right next to a Coping With Death and Dying in a book store.
Now I know where to go for all of my tips on “no-show smoothness” in undergarments. You can see a scan of the underwear page here.
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Pink Tentacle has a great post about Japanese visions of the future from a 1969 illustrated magazine feature entitled “Computopia.”
My favorite:
More pictures and descriptions here.
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Ah, how the times change.
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Worth a thousand words…
Caption, anyone?
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LP Cover Lover featured this album recently; a sermon by Harold Henniger (hardly a famous man by any stretch of imagination, but I like to be informative).
Is it me, or does this remind you of the Handbook for the Recently Deceased from Beetlejuice?
If anyone has other guides to the afterlife featuring affectionate couples strolling into the Great Beyond together, please share.
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What everyone surely needs to start a holiday weekend off right: freakish caricatures of Edwardian music hall performers.
George Cooke was a caricatures artist who drew Edwardian music hall performers for the Grand Theatre of Varieties, in Hanley Worcestershire. He compiled them in a series of albums.
More on the fabulous Ephemera Assemblyman, along with info/descriptions.
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Ah, mid 20th century popularity tips. I love looking at old (and even current) advice trends. This piece offers some lofty promises.
Read the text here.
Sure, we can scoff at antiquated notions of shut up, look pretty and praise every word your man says with wide-eyed wonder.
But are the current tips in Cosmo really so much better? (Actual Cosmo quote: “We noticed in December…how baseball player Alex Rodriguez shamelessly followed Madonna around like a little poodle…Clearly, as Madonna proves, being ballsy and comfortable with oneself is a big turn-on.”)
This little blogger thinks there must be a more appropriate middle ground between doormat and ball-breaker. I should keep a Cosmo or two (despite the fact that I don’t read them…I can find trite advice and compare myself unfavorably to other women at home for free). They are bound to be the collectible kitsch of the future.
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Every now and then I pop back on Luminous Lint to browse their fantastic photography exhibitions. Here are a few selections from the skull collection.
Some are actual medical images, quite disturbing (such as this 1966 Vietnam War X-ray of a grenade implanted in a man’s forehead):
Some are art photography…
(Look at the gentle detail of color in the eye of the feather!More skulls here
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