Distractions – Page 78 – Ammo for your Dreams

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

Roleplaying Science Fiction and Fantasy

Paul Barnett explains Warhammer Online

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 28, 2006

Paul Barnett explains what Warhammer Online is about with marvelous gusto: Some people get confused, and they go oh, I see, chaos is like the devil. No no no no, it’s not fire and brimestone, it’s chaos. It’s custard falling from the sky. it’s an arm turning into a sword, it’s the ability to cut your arm and mice pour out rather than blood. It’s chaos, it’s corruption! So, you take all that, and you put it into an MMO… [ found via slashdot ]

Oddities

Bo (smells a) Rat

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 26, 2006

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Science Fiction and Fantasy short

Pan’s Labyrinth Trailer

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 25, 2006

The Trailer of Pan’s Labyrinth, the new Guillermo Del Toro movie.

Oddities

Bom Bom Tarrare

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date November 25, 2006

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.