Magazines
Journal of Universal Rejection
Similar in spirit to the Society for the Prevention of Progress.
via Book of Joe
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 03, 2024 -
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Category: Magazines, Success & Failure
Voo Doo Magazine
Would you expect the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to feature an extant humor magazine, whose first issue was published in 1919? Well, it's a fact.You can read scores of issues here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 19, 2024 -
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Category: Humor, Magazines, 1910s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
The Electric Hairbrush and Comb of Hugo Gernsback
One of the fathers of modern science fiction once came up with this.Tip o' the hat to Steve Davidson, current proprietor of Amazing Stories.
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 27, 2023 -
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Category: Magazines, Patents, Science Fiction, 1910s, Hair and Hairstyling
The Opal
Read it here. Spoiler: it's all very bland.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 30, 2023 -
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Category: Literature, Magazines, Nineteenth Century, Mental Health and Insanity
Follies of the Madmen #532
No mincing words here!Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 14, 2022 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Fashion, Underwear, Magazines, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures
Happy Valentine’s Day 2022!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 14, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Holidays, Hollywood, Magazines, Love & Romance
Follies of the Madmen #520
I have never thought of a percolator as sexy before, but I guess I was misguided...
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 22, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Appliances, Magazines, Sex Symbols, 1970s
The Mimi Award
The Wikipedia entry for MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED tells us:A long-running feature of Mechanix Illustrated was "Mimi," a shapely young woman dressed in skimpy overalls with blue and white vertical stripes; and, in the early sixties, a matching railroad engineer's cap (later discontinued). She was in a picture holding, standing beside, sitting on, lying on or just in the picture with a new product each month. Each "Mimi" held the job for a year. Their names were never given except for the announcement of a new "Mimi" in the January issue. One Mimi did, however, hold the job for a few years in the sixties. An actress from Southern California, she left to live in Hawaii, and a readers' poll was conducted to choose a replacement from a short list. The readers' choice only lasted a short while, and was replaced by one of the runners-up. "Mimi" was discontinued with the change to Home Mechanix.
Ten more Mimi's after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 09, 2021 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, Magazines, Technology, Sex Symbols, Twentieth Century
The Return of Pipilotti Rist
Longtime WU-vies will recognize the name of this artist, since we've been covering her almost since the blog commenced. Now, late to the party, THE NEW YORKER has discovered her "genius."Let us savor one of Rist's newer works, posted to YouTube in November 2019. Don't let the fact that its views number in the low double digits dissuade you from its worth!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 14, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Magazines, Europe
Citrus & Vegetable Magazine
I cannot find an issue of C&V later than 2014, and the website you see on the cover below seems down. But certainly, if they still exist, they will find it hard to beat the cover for the April 1977 issue.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 16, 2020 -
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Category: Agriculture, Business, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Magazines
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