December 2018
December 26, 2018
What does Mrs. Claus do when she gets lonely?
Don't the elves keep her company?
Esquire - Jan 1971
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 26, 2018 -
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Category: Advertising, 1970s, Christmas
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
I believe we've seen the birds-and-guitars piece before, but not the others.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 26, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Museums, Music, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
December 25, 2018
Christmas Hats
Tampa Times - Jan 4, 1939
Wisconsin State Journal - Dec 30, 1957
The Munster Times - Dec 20, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 25, 2018 -
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Category: Headgear, Christmas
Merry Christmas 2018!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 25, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Holidays, Music, 1950s
December 24, 2018
Slow-Speed Chase
The Billings Gazette - Mar 29, 1998
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 24, 2018 -
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Category: Stupid Criminals, 1990s
Christmas Cracker
The first item is okay if bland, but the next two are fairly weird.Christmas Cracker, Jeff Hale, Norman McLaren, Grant Munro & Gerald Potterton, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 24, 2018 -
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Category: Holidays, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, 1960s
December 23, 2018
Santa dies again
What would Christmas be without Santa dying?Back in 2016, I posted a list of various Santas that have died over the years, often collapsing in front of crowds of horrified children. The Moscow Times reports that it's happened again:
Known as Ded Moroz, or Father Frost, Russian versions of Santa Claus host children’s holiday parties with the fairy tale snow maiden Snegurochka, in a still-popular Soviet-era tradition.
A man in a Ded Moroz costume died during festivities at a kindergarten in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, the local sibdepo.ru news website reported Tuesday.
“The man felt ill in the kindergarten, he was taken in an ambulance but died on the way to the hospital,” the outlet cited an unnamed medical source as saying.
The unidentified 67-year-old Ded Moroz “complained of chest pain” and died before the ambulance arrived, Interfax cited another unnamed source as saying.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 23, 2018 -
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Category: Christmas
Ralph Slater, Hypnotist Against Hitler
I suspect that Slater would pitch anything just to get publicity.Here he claims he can deprogram Nazis.
He did not fare so well in 1948.
Here's the man himself.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 23, 2018 -
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Category: Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, Crackpots, 1940s
December 22, 2018
The Church of Batman
(L) Wilkes-Barre Times Leader - Apr 5, 1968; (R) R: Wilkes-Barre Times Leader - Aug 8, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 22, 2018 -
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Category: Religion, Comics
Karina Smigla-Bobinski
The artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 22, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Europe
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