What’s sillier then a Dalek? A Dalek with an outrageous accent.
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The R.A. Maguire Cover Art gallery features lots of lovely paperback covers from the 50s and 60s, mostly in tawdry genres like crime, detective, exploitation and even science-fiction. The site also has a gallery of photos the artist took for reference to draw the covers.
The overwrought blurbs on these books are sometimes hilarious:
Perfume and Pain – She knew no desire but that for another woman.
TV Tramps – On camera they violated the Code of Decency; Off camera they violated each other.
House of Fury – A Slashing Story of Girls Behind Bars.
The Fires Within – SUBURBIA, U.S.A.; The story of a wife who loved too much… and too many
Hell’s Angels – Her life was a paradise of sex and drugs, but she died one hell of a death
But the best one has got Muscle Boy – They Got Their Kicks From Forbidden Feats of Strength
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Bom Bom Tarrare
Rob Macdougall writes about the miserable and disgusting life of Tarrare, an 18th century french man who would literally eat anything. He points to a longer article about the topic on Fortean Times called The Cat Eaters (yes, people who ate live cats), where I learned that Tarrare’s name survives in expressions like Bom-bom tarare
– referring to powerful explosions or fanfares and, by inference Tarrare’s own prodigious flatulence.
The idea of someone constantly hungry who is driven to eat anything is pretty horrifying, even before he gets experimented on by army doctors.
A collaboration between Stan Lee and Jack Chick: GALACTUS IS COMING!