Monday, November 21, 2016

Butt Out - The Life and Death of Cigarette Advertising on Television

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One of the better YouTube docs about cigarettes and the way Big Tobacco fought the truth (and won, for a very long time: "A treat i...

"Do you inhale?": Vintage cigarette advertisements

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Here is another of my gif /slidehows of old ads. I've wanted to do one of cigarette ads for a while now, but once I started rese...

Bambi and Thumper are REAL!

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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Steven Galloway: outside of Canada, nobody cares

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BLOGGER'S LAMENT.  I am absolutely exhausted. Just wiped out. I've been - somehow - don't know how -  didn't want to...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Margaret Atwood Follies: "gee, thanks, lady"

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Margaret Atwood "can't write a novel," according to Norm Macdonald (AARON VINCENT ELKAIM / THE CANADIAN PRESS) By PE...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Are we still friends?

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Whack jobs: or, why we still can't deal with mental illness

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I’ve been having some thoughts lately, mostly triggered by some recent events in the news. It’s about people’s language around mental il...

New Girl in School: an illustrated guide

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The New Girl in School Papa do ron-de ron-de, do ron-de ron-de, do ron-de ron-de, oo I got it bad for the new girl in s...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Pets Who Hate Donald Trump

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It might be food: Weight Watchers recipe cards, 1974

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Harold Lloyd: those long ocean voyages

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Harold Lloyd: fists of fury

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Harold Lloyd Goes Psycho!

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I've rescored some of my favorite Harold Lloyd scenes with "unusual" music. This one makes your hair stand on end.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Gecko dance!

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Happy dog slides on ice!

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CATFIGHT! Girl fights in romance comics

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I may have actually bought some of these, or one, back in the '60s, but only so my brother Arthur and I could make terrible fun...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Banana extravaganza!

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"What could possibly go wrong?": Inventions from the nasty past

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Call these "un-ventions". Things the inventor should have thought twice about. Things that might even be hazardous to your...