1960s
Paperbacks from Hell
For Halloween or Xmas, what could be a better gift? A brilliant art and history book about the crazy-ass horror novel covers of yore?
Read a review here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 24, 2017 -
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Category: Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Books, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Village of the Giants
"From a novel by H. G. Wells!" Yeah, right....
The Wikipedia page.
The full movie, via MST3K.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 22, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Juvenile Delinquency, Teenagers, Science Fiction, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #329
Tony the Tiger is a protective deity against the occult forces of Friday the Thirteenth?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 13, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Food, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #328
As you can see, this ad appeared in the April issue of EBONY magazine, thus rendering any possible connection to Halloween, the time of ghosts, utterly irrelevant. What is the excuse for the pun, then? Because Herb-Ox represents the ghost of a cow? It's utterly arbitrary and unseductive and not germane to the product. Yet some ad guy obviously thought it was genius.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 11, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Superstition, 1960s
Wild and Wonderful
From the Wikipedia entry:Dick Vosburgh of The Independent commented, "Critics found it hard to accept that it had taken six writers to fashion the wafer-thin tale of a jazz flautist whose marriage to a French film star is threatened by the jealous tricks of Monsieur Cognac, her neurotic, alcoholic French poodle."[5] In his obituary for Tony Curtis in 2010, Dave Kehr dismissed the film as "disastrous," noting that Curtis was rebuilding his reputation after an earlier affair with Kaufmann, his co-star in Wild and Wonderful, and subsequent divorce from Janet Leigh.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 03, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Dogs, 1960s
Dawn Langley Simmons
I believe every word that Dawn Langley Simmons says.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 27, 2017 -
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Category: Children, Parents, 1960s, Gender-bending, LGBT
Mystery Illustration 58
What was the topic or theme of the article accompanying this illustration?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 26, 2017 -
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Category: Art, 1960s
Cobra Asparagus
Weird biology.
Green Bay Press Gazette - July 20, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 22, 2017 -
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Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, 1960s
A Kookie Little Paradise
Since when did Tarzan inhabit the jungles of the Caribbean?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 21, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Nature, 1960s
Tales of Justine: “Albert, A Pet Sunflower”
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 16, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Nature, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
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