Annoying Things
Follies of the Madmen #508
Was this really ever a problem?
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 07, 2021 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, 1940s, Smells and Odors, Moral Panics and Public Hysteria
How to Succeed With Brunettes
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 31, 2021 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Antisocial Activities, Customs, Emotions, Etiquette and Formal Behavior, PSA’s, 1960s, Men, Women
Unconsented-to Staring Contest
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 13, 2020 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Antisocial Activities, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, 2000s, Eyes and Vision
Odor-based Alarms
Alex's recent run of Weird Patents reminded me of the attempts to base an alarm device on smells.Here's one that seems to have gone nowhere.
And another.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 31, 2020 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Inventions, Twenty-first Century, Smells and Odors
Bring Back the Bush
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 29, 2020 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Customs, Hygiene, Genitals
Stationery
Stationery , Monica Rho, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 18, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Cartoons
VARIACIONES 1/113
In the Parque del Retiro (Retiro’s Park) in Madrid, Ines Sastre runs to meet Javier Bardem who is waiting for her with his arms wide open and they embrace one another in a passionate kiss. This only one shot which lasts one minute twenty seconds is subjected to a hundred and thirteen changes for one hour and seventeen minutes. “I wanted to exhaust the possibilities of changing a shot by changing the music, the colours, by burning it, by making some holes…” remembers Aguirre; “sometimes, the heads are not visible, or we can only see her legs, or the image seems to be scrapped off”… /… the variations of this shot are preceded by the ones of another couple taken in the beach of La Concha in San Sebastian that maybe acts as a suggestion of a merely real support for this ideal meeting. The images are accompanied by not only Borges’ voice-over but also Fernando Fernan-Gomez and Francisco Rabal’s voices-over among some not so well-known other voices …/ … disparate prints, sometimes unpredictable, that Borges’ literature proposed to moviemakers of this period and from distant cultures. It is the disparity of Javier Aguirre’s experimentation along with the contradiction that seems us so provocative.
Alas, I cannot find this film online, or even any clips. But I felt WU-vies should know about it, in case any art-house showing appears in your neighborhood, or you find it on disc, or on streaming!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 06, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Avant Garde, Twenty-first Century, Love & Romance
Follies of the Madmen #454
Mental burdens of college life.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 26, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Business, Advertising, Domestic, Fashion, Hygiene, 1950s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Clutch Cargo in “Pipeline to Danger”
Clutch gets involved with the Saudis!The IIMDB page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 09, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Surrealism, Cartoons, 1950s
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 28, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Celebrities, Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, Eccentrics, Entertainment, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Superstition, Television, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1970s, LGBT, Halloween, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust, Nostalgia
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