Magazines
Hipster Elephants
Learn about these iPod pachyderms here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 03, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Magazines, Music, 1960s
les fêtes étranges
Posted By: Nethie - Sun Oct 10, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Customs, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Magazines, Parades and Festivals
Historic Dwarfs: Bertholde
Read about this charmer here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 04, 2010 -
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Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Magazines, Children, Historical Figure, Natural Wonders
Poulet a la Baby Poop
Alternate interpretation: "Cannibals? Us?"
For the full story, visit here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 07, 2010 -
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Category: Food, Magazines, Babies and Toddlers, 1950s
Just a Little Off the Muzzle
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 11, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Magazines, Dogs, 1950s
Cult Magazines
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 28, 2009 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Collectors, Magazines, Subcultures, Books
Boris Artzybasheff
Or, you can admire some of his covers for Time magazine.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 19, 2009 -
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Category: Art, Pop Art, Surrealism, Magazines, 1950s
Two Weird Books
But aren't phone booths going extinct everywhere? Who will save the endangered tart card?!?
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 02, 2009 -
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Category: Magazines, Sexuality, Advertising, Books
Marvin Hewitt, Imposter
I ran across a fifty-year-old case recently in Life magazine from April 12, 1954. The perp was one Marvin Hewitt, and he managed to masquerade as a college-level physics professor, among other positions!
You can read most of the article here. The ending, unfortunately, was missing from my issue of the zine.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 15, 2008 -
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Category: Celebrities, Crime, Education, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Magazines, 1950s
It Takes a Weirdo to Know a Weirdo
And perhaps you won't be entirely surprised to learn that our own Chuck Shepherd made their honor roll! Don't let that sunny, smiling countenance to the right trick you into imagining he's not the equal of Stephen King or Warren Zevon!
Way to go, Chuck! H. P. Lovecraft is beaming down on you from above. Or up at you from below. Or through the cracks of the spacetime continuum.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 23, 2008 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Celebrities, Eccentrics, Horror, Magazines, Pop Culture, Weird Universe, Chuck
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