Absinthe-scented candle that only Oscar Wilde could love. Get yours here. “Vices Canisters” by Jonathan Adler are high-end booze-scented candles. That’s right. If you ever…
Edison’s early experiments in film were often pretty scandalous even by today’s standards. There was the time he recorded his favorite body-building stripper, rather gracelessly…
DECtalk was a text-to-voice speech synthesizer popular in the 1980s. This nifty little piece of technology came with a variety of built-in voices which enabled…
It was hard to draw God. Should God just be a bright light? Should I use word balloons? Should God be a woman? –R. Crumb…
Sammy Davis Jr. was a singer, a dancer, an actor, a comic, and an impressionist. He was a superstar. One of the greatest all-round stage…
Right this moment, I really wish I spoke Russian, the better to understand this 1964 commercial that turned up yesterday on the wonderful Soviet Visuals…
Well this is nice. The world’s longest-running science-fiction series Doctor Who reimagined as retro Penguin books from the 1960s-1980s. I do like Penguin books. They…
Thom Yorke is EVIL! (not really). My DM colleague Tara McGinley posted about the unexplainable image of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke on the cover of an…
The cover of the October 1951 issue of ‘Paris Tabou.’ Cheeky French magazine Paris Tabou (named for the famed Parisian nightclub “Le Tabou” once located…
In 1976 Topps released a set of Shock Theatre trading cards that featuring gory stills from classic Hammer horror films. Each pack sold contained three…