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Department of All Progress Is Driven By The Quest to Get High

You may know the old Psychedelics drove Human Evolution idea, now here’s an archeologist theorizing that civilization was started by people trying to get drunk.

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Chocolate is a Fighting Food

Chocolate is a Fighting Food - Nestle WW2 ad

Check out the Vintage Ad Browser, a collection of advertisements sorted by decade and topic, and its companion site, the just as awesome Cover Browser
conan the barbarian, in french

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Blasphemy 2

While everyone was prepping to write Doctor Who spoilers, I went to see Robert Downey Junior take on another substance-abusing superhero in Guy Ritchie’s The Odd Couple.

I mean Sherlock Holmes. And your moaning about how noncanonical it is?

I’m sorry, I can’t hear it over the sound of the AWESOME.

(Although if someone wanted another Jeremy Brett version, they might have cast Mark Strong in the title role instead of as the Aleister Crowley -esque villain).

However, I did wear my Doctor Blasphemy T-Shirt to the cinema :-)

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New Year, New Stuff

The doorbell woke me this morning with a postman delivering a package: the Maximortal graphic novel and a Doctor Blasphemy T-Shirt I’d bought in December. Cool beans:

Me with new stuff

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Top 75 Most Iconic DC Covers of All-Time

Via LinkMachineGo, the Top 75 Most Iconic DC Covers of All-Time.
The Ultimate Race