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Paperbacks like grandma liked them

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date December 03, 2006
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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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strange maps

This is cool: strange maps is a blog about maps (doh), from Britain re-conceived as six new USA states, to the planet Mongo and an upside-down south asia.

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What If 9/11 Never Happened?

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 15, 2006

What If 9/11 Never Happened? – a collection of scenarios from New York Magazine.

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A Primeval Tide of Toxins (LA Times)

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 10, 2006

This is a couple of weeks old, but well-worth reading. From the Los Angeles Times: A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This ‘rise of slime,’ as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people.

[via jwz ]

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Mar Kav!

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date July 06, 2006

Look, it’s Mar Kav! [ via chadu, who calls this Osvaldo Cavandoli’s La Linea cartoons. Whatever – Po-ta-TOH, Tapuach Adama ]
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