Category: Obsessions
Pictures of Towels
You can find groups on the internet dedicated to just about anything. Still, this one seems to me to be scraping the bottom of the barrel:Pictures of Towels
This group is for pictures of towels and writing about towels. All types of towels are welcome: bath towels, hand towels, dish towels and tea towels.
This group is for pictures of towels and writing about towels. All types of towels are welcome: bath towels, hand towels, dish towels and tea towels.
Doesn't seem to have had much activity lately. I can't imagine why not.
Follies of the Mad Men #37
[From Life magazine for June 9 1952.]We saw how the advertising industry created the concept of "B.O." for "body odor." Here, less successfully, they tried to triple the problem. Note how coyly the term "other personal odors" is used to refer to farting.
Is there any scientific proof that chlorophyll tablets do anything in the human body?
And don't you just love the look of disgust on that gal's face?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Oct 13, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Hygiene, Medical, Obsessions, 1950's
Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Hygiene, Medical, Obsessions, 1950's
Random Rant
I dug this out of my files, and although it's nearly twenty years old, a good psychotic rant never goes out of style.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Aug 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Education, Literature, Obsessions, Scholarship, School, 1980's
Category: Art, Eccentrics, Education, Literature, Obsessions, Scholarship, School, 1980's
Man-Goat!
A recent news item concerning animal spare parts for human transplants seems to bring closer the day when many human ills can be remedied more easily through transgenic repairs.But surely such a day would not be imminent without the pioneering work of John Brinkley, a greedy and deranged scam artist who sought to implant goat testicles in impotent men.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Jul 31, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Agriculture, Animals, Business, Products, Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Inventions, Medical, Obsessions, Sexuality, Technology, Men
Category: Agriculture, Animals, Business, Products, Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Inventions, Medical, Obsessions, Sexuality, Technology, Men
Jetpack Dreams
That most silly and pointless and inutile, yet much desired of flight mechanisms, the jetpack, is back in the news. You can read a New York Times piece about the latest model here.And a review copy of this book recently arrived in my mailbox, portending lots of fun.
Yet such mechanisms pale before the magnificently insane accomplishment of Yves Rossy, who, a couple of years ago, basically turned himself into Iron Man. Watch his jet-powered flight below.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Jul 29, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Eccentrics, Flight, Inventions, Literature, Science Fiction, Movies, Obsessions, Pop Culture, Yesterday's Tomorrows, Technology, Travel
Category: Eccentrics, Flight, Inventions, Literature, Science Fiction, Movies, Obsessions, Pop Culture, Yesterday's Tomorrows, Technology, Travel
Micronations
Here's a recent article on one such place, the Republic of Molossia.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Jul 28, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Customs, Foreign Customs, Eccentrics, Government, Officials, Regulations, History, Law, Military, Obsessions, Patriotism, Politics, Travel
Category: Art, Performance Art, Customs, Foreign Customs, Eccentrics, Government, Officials, Regulations, History, Law, Military, Obsessions, Patriotism, Politics, Travel
Spit-take
This fellow has many cuspidors.This museum actually wants them.
Two simple facts. Yet what a wealth of weirdness.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Jul 27, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Agriculture, Customs, Eccentrics, Hygiene, Museums, Obsessions, Regionalism
Category: Agriculture, Customs, Eccentrics, Hygiene, Museums, Obsessions, Regionalism
Follies of the Mad Men #2
[From The Saturday Evening Post for December 16, 1967]
Whenever you put a giant woman in a skirt next to normal-sized people, the inevitable first thought engendered in the viewer is, "Can I see up her dress?" In this instance, the second thought is: "Is she going to pick up that car and use it as a marital aid?"
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Jul 12, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cars, Fashion, Obsessions, Fetishes, Sexuality
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cars, Fashion, Obsessions, Fetishes, Sexuality
Put your gas masks on!
I came across two unusual photographs of gas masks while browsing in the library recently. The first is from 1939 (from the collection Photohistory of the 20th Century). The caption reads:This bizarre photograph of a scantily clad London chorus girl wearing her gas mask was used as part of the official campaign to take the terror out of wearing gas masks. One of the great British fears at the beginning of World War II was that the country would be attacked from the air, with poison gas. Gas masks -- 38 million of them -- were distributed to all civilians, men, women, children and babies. Government propaganda stressed the importance of becoming familiar with their use.
I doubt the image did much to take the terror out of gas masks, but I'm sure it made the fetish crowd happy.
The second photo is from Scientific American (October, 1922). The caption reads:
This mask enables its wearer to work for half an hour in atmospheres laden with noxious gas.
Coincidentally, this very much resembles the uniform worn by the staff of Weird Universe while we work.
Posted By: Alex | Date: Mon Jul 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Category: Obsessions, Fetishes, Technology
Category: Obsessions, Fetishes, Technology
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