Two-Fisted Sentences and Hard-Boiled Covers: Mickey Spillane’s pulp fiction
‘I, the Jury’ (1947). Mickey Spillane said he was a writer, not an author. “Authors want their name down in history; I want to keep…
‘I, the Jury’ (1947). Mickey Spillane said he was a writer, not an author. “Authors want their name down in history; I want to keep…
It’s a fair bet that a large part of many (most?) record collections includes a good percentage of covers by the legendary London-based graphic designers…
Some lucky schmoe just bought one of the coolest houses in the United States. The Hillsborough, California home affectionately known as “The Flintstone House” which…
Shelflife. The books you keep tell the story of your own life. Clearing out boxes of books and personal belongings of lives once lived, I…
A few years ago I blogged about the Donald Trump buttplug that was selling for $27.99 here. Now I’m blogging about the Donald Trump pencil…
Artist Butcher Billy took iconic love and heartbreak songs and reimagined them as if they were Stephen King horror novels. They’re actually quite amusing and…
An ad by auction house Robson Kay for ‘The Pink Panther Car’ credited to auto builder and designer Jay Ohrberg. Before I decided to go…
Osaka Show 1970 was a hour-long musical produced by Valerio Lazarov for TVE (the national television station in Spain). It featured its countries biggest pop…
Panorama of Tuan Jie Hu. I spent twenty minutes looking for Waldo but was too overawed by the sheer magnificence of these panoramic drawings that…
The Stone Flower, a structure known as a “spomenik” located in Jasenovac, Croatia. Built in 1966, it commemorates the thousands of victims who were executed…