Movies
Miss Paramount Week
This beauty prize is plenty weird on its own. Most beauty queen titles are not delimited by a timeframe. Of course, the winners of the most famous contests generally reign for a year. A week seems a short splurge. But this winner, actress/singer/model Sandy Warner, also notches up another claim to WU fame. She was the cover girl for many of Martin Denny's exotica albums. Read about her at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 10, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s, 1960s
Pixillation
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 05, 2023 -
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Category: Movies, Special Effects, Surrealism, Psychedelic, 1970s
Fun in a Bakery Shop
The last head sculpted in the video below is plainly that of a comic Irishman, supreme butt of all ethnic humorists.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 17, 2022 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Food, Movies, Stereotypes and Cliches, Ridiculousness, Foolishness, Public Ridicule, Silliness, Goofiness and Dumb-looking, 1900s
“The Mouse That Roared” Unsold Television Pilot
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 14, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Television, Unlikely, Improbable and Counterfactual Phenomena, 1960s
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 09, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Movies, Surrealism, 1940s
The Outre Costumes of Louise Glaum
The silent-screen star Louise Glaum had a reputation for eccentric fashions onscreen and off, as well as for odd pets.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 05, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Fashion, Movies, Pets, 1910s
Les Baxter’s “Goliath and the Barbarians”
Space-age Bachelor Pad meets Sword and Sandals. What could be better?
If you dig the first track, embedded here, go to the Internet Archive listing for the album, click the Spotify option, and you get the whole thing.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 19, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, 1950s, 1970s, Europe
Dick Hyman’s “The Man From O.R.G.A.N.”
Sometimes Alex and I appear to be coordinating our posts, but it's only coincidence. This time, however, I made it intentional!Let's see WABOT-2 play better than Dick Hyman!
His Wikipedia page.
Embedded player below track listing.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 08, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, Ridiculousness, Foolishness, Public Ridicule, Silliness, Goofiness and Dumb-looking, 1960s
Lipstick-, Purse- and Shoe-Guns
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 07, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Fashion, Underwear, Inventions, Movies, Self-protection, Defenses, and Safeguards, Threats, Assaults and Intimidation
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 46
Two links to the Wikipedia pages of the Themersons, husband and wife team of avant-gardists.Small essay here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 31, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Movies, Twentieth Century
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