Books
Where Are You Planning to Stick That Doll?
Lower image is the outer back cover.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 13, 2010 -
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Category: Medicine, Books, 1960s
Altergott + Hernandez = Greatness
While we wait for our banner-artist Rick Altergott to finish his concluding installment of RAISIN PIE, we will have to content ourselves with these great covers he did for two Gilbert Hernandez graphic novels. I just finished reading both of them, and they are of course superb.
The third one, due out at the end of this year, seems to lack the distinction of Altergott cover imagery, but will no doubt repay your attentions as well.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 30, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Comics, Sexuality, Violence, Weird Universe, Books
Bizarro Guidebooks
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 17, 2010 -
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Category: Regionalism, Books
Milt Gross
I am currently enjoying a great book about cartoonist Milt Gross. (See link at right.)
If you watch the embedded cartoon, you'll get a sense of why he was idolized by R. Crumb and the founding artists of Mad magazine for his supreme wackiness.
Jitterbug Follies (1939) Milt Gross
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 29, 2010 -
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Category: Comics, Books, Cartoons, 1930s
God Made Me Do It
Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their car insurance? Does He encourage cannibalism? Does the God of more than six billion people actually have time to root for the Minnesota Vikings?
According to some, yes. How do they know? God told them. Luckily, God also told Marc Hartzman to write this book, a collection of the most shocking, absurd, and hilarious things people have ever claimed God asked them to do, and to present them for your pure reading enjoyment.
Including:
* The man that God told to perform surgery on himself
* God's generous offer to miraculously fill his believer's gas tank
* The fateful day God (assumedly feeling nostalgic for his teen years) asked a man to TP a police station
* The woman God instructed to direct traffic—topless
* And, sadly, many more
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 10, 2010 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Religion, Books
Bad Music
Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown from alex Bondonno on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 27, 2010 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Books
Amazing and Unusual USA
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 04, 2009 -
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Category: Pop Culture, Regionalism, Travel, Landmarks, Sightseeing, Books
Cult Magazines
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 28, 2009 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Collectors, Magazines, Subcultures, Books
Alabama Curiosities
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 20, 2009 -
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Category: Regionalism, Weird Studies and Guides, Books
Weird Stuff from The History Channel
Seems as if there should be some prime material of interest for WU-vies in these five titles.Or in the DVDs of the History Channel show they derive from.
Or even in the official boardgame!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 16, 2009 -
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Category: Games, Video, Books
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