Category: Vintage

Hot Shots of the Week: Hair Metal Maidens

A Reddit user places this photo from 1986 at the Asylum Club in London, which seems mighty accurate to me. Hair metal was in full swing in ‘86, and Aqua Net sales were through the roof. These two hotties were living their best lives in ‘86, as evidenced by their fashionable couture (artistically shredded to … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: Hair Metal Maidens →

Go Put Your Records On

Of all music formats, from eight-tracks to cassette tapes, CDs to downloadable files and then streaming, none have ever achieved the caché of the analog king, vinyl records. After a drop in sales for all music-listening mediums, vinyl has seen a resurgence in popularity over the last decade or so. Hipsters love their vinyl, after … Continue reading Go Put Your Records On →

Hot Shots of the Week: The Horror Pulp Art of Emanuele Taglietti

Italian illustrator Emanuele Taglietti was born in 1943. His dynamic art is a salacious stew of horror, sex, and violence that practically leaps off the page and slaps you right in the face. The scenarios depicted are never anything less than completely insane, like hopped up B-movies on steroids. Here’s but a small sampling of … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: The Horror Pulp Art of Emanuele Taglietti →

Hot Shots of the Week: Jill St. John Blinded Me with Science

It's poetry in motionShe turned her tender eyes to meAs deep as any oceanAs sweet as any harmonyBut she blinded me with science(She blinded me with science!)And failed me in biology, hey (huh, huh, huh) Jill St. John rocking a leopard print bathing suit and heels while tinkering with her chemistry set is a perfect … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: Jill St. John Blinded Me with Science →

Random Image Dump #20

Let’s mark the occasion of the twentieth edition of this ongoing visual-stimulation randomness series with a selection of vintage and old school photos. Sure, nostalgia and retro are part of our usual M.O. around here anyway, but hey, when you have a schtick you’re known for, it never hurts to lean into it and please … Continue reading Random Image Dump #20 →

Reading is Fundamental

It’s National Read Across America Day! Also known as Dr. Seuss’s birthday. A friend and neighbor handed down her sons’ Seuss books to me when I was just a toddler and I adored those stories, and especially because my mother read them to me and used different voices for different characters. So, along with comic … Continue reading Reading is Fundamental →