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August 15, 2011
This Girl for Hire
This Girl for Hire by G.G. FicklingMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Never knew that this was a great series of novels, thought it was just a horrid TV show.
"Honey West is the nerviest, curviest P.I. in Los Angeles - or anywhere else for that matter. She's a cross between James Bond and The Avengers' Emma Peel - a girl detective with the sleuthmanship of Mike Hammer and the measurements of Marilyn Monroe, and This Girl for Hire is the first in a series of darkly funny and innuendo-laden crime novels originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. In this one, Honey finds herself playing strip poker with four murder suspects...and a deck that's as stacked as she is." Honey has her hands full with the corpse of a washed-up Hollywood entertainer, a battered beauty, and a poisoned pipsqueak - not to mention the guy who tries to get her to model a transparent bathing suit in his swimming pool "shaped like the body of a very large-bosomed woman." Fortunately, with her 38-22-36 measurements, taffy colored hair, big blue eyes, and baby-bottom complexion, Honey fits right in with the Hollywood types as she searches out the clues aboard a yacht christened Hell's Light. "Just bring a swimsuit and a toothbrush," says Sam Aces, the producer, but it's a good thing Honey's packed her .32, too.
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Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century by John F. DilleMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I love this for all the wrong reasons -- Dick Calkins great art adds a perfect deadpan to Philip Francis Nowlan's Ed Wood like horribly, stupid writing. If it were published today I would think it was a brilliant comedy in the vein of David Boswell's Reid Flemming
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Exercises for Gentlemen: 50 Exercises to Do With Your Suit On (1908)
Exercises for Gentlemen by M. Ellsworth OlsenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Just found this in the humor section at Borders and thought it was a riot. I was shocked to find out it was a reprint of a book from 1908. Made it even funnier.
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August 7, 2011
Naked man gored by bull in Pamplona
An angry bull has taken its revenge on a streaker during the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
To the delight of onlookers, the bull singled out the man amongst a sea of people in traditional white shirts and red neckerchiefs and went for him.
The world famous, seven day festival is held every year and attracts runners from all over the world.
Last week an Australian man was seriously injured when a 1,200lb bull sliced through an artery in his leg. He is expected to survive.
The full extent of the streaker's injuries are not clear but he was able to walk away and was later arrested for causing a public disturbance.
He is unlikely to have been too unhappy about that, however, as he is clearly an exhibitionist and the attention probably made his day. It may even have made his whole week.
To the delight of onlookers, the bull singled out the man amongst a sea of people in traditional white shirts and red neckerchiefs and went for him.
The world famous, seven day festival is held every year and attracts runners from all over the world.
Last week an Australian man was seriously injured when a 1,200lb bull sliced through an artery in his leg. He is expected to survive.
The full extent of the streaker's injuries are not clear but he was able to walk away and was later arrested for causing a public disturbance.
He is unlikely to have been too unhappy about that, however, as he is clearly an exhibitionist and the attention probably made his day. It may even have made his whole week.
August 4, 2011
Vince Collins psychedelic cartoon commissioned by the US government in 1976 for the Bicentennial
This psychedelic cartoon was produced by the U.S. Government with taxpayer dollars in 1976 to mark two hundred years of independence. It is both patriotic and trippy at the same time, and tells you a great deal about the aesthetics of the 1970's. I guess for once the US government knew what's citizens were doing and what they wanted to see wen they hired Vince Collins who billed himself as a pornographic, Psychedelic Animator.
