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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Miss Atomic Bomb 1957 - Lee Merlin
Mona Goldwater, Pageant Ed.
“Copa Room showgirl Lee Merlin poses in a cotton mushroom cloud swimsuit as she is crowned Miss Atomic Bomb 1957 photograph. Above-ground nuclear testing was a major public attraction during the late 1950s, and hotels capitalized on the craze by hosting nuclear bomb watch parties, which usually included the dubbing of a chorus girl as Miss Atomic Bomb. Merlin was the last and most famous of the Miss Atomic Bomb girls”
- Las Vegas Sun
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A current meme on women running for President
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.
This image has been making the rounds. . .it originated on Common Culture (or, they added their name to it).
But where's Senator Warren?? Like Hillary, she doesn't probably have a *huge* shelf life either. If anything like this scenario plays out, Hillary will be a one term President. She will go one and done. Which leaves Elizabeth Warren in 2020, possibly thwarting the interwoven double dynasties of the Houses of Clinton and Obama.
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Pictures from Yosemite National Park, Part 3
By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.
We only had one day in the Yosemite Valley (we were here for a wedding), but it was fantastic.
Link to Part 1
Link to Part 2
We only had one day in the Yosemite Valley (we were here for a wedding), but it was fantastic.
Link to Part 1
Link to Part 2
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Pictures from Yosemite National Park, Part 2
By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.
We took a quick trip to the Yosemite area (specifically Bass Lake) last weekend. We did get to spend an amazing day in the Yosemite Valley. Unbelievable. The photos just don't do justice to the scale and grandeur. . .
Link to Part 1
Link to part 3
We took a quick trip to the Yosemite area (specifically Bass Lake) last weekend. We did get to spend an amazing day in the Yosemite Valley. Unbelievable. The photos just don't do justice to the scale and grandeur. . .
Link to Part 1
Link to part 3
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Pictures from Yosemite National Park, Part 1
By Jack Brummet, Travel Ed.
We took a quick trip to the Yosemite area (specifically Bass Lake) last weekend. We did get to spend an amazing day in the Yosemite Valley. Unbelievable. The photos just don't do justice to the scale and grandeur. . .
Link to Part 2
Link to Part 3
We took a quick trip to the Yosemite area (specifically Bass Lake) last weekend. We did get to spend an amazing day in the Yosemite Valley. Unbelievable. The photos just don't do justice to the scale and grandeur. . .
Link to Part 2
Link to Part 3
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
The dangers of startling the hypnotized or meditating
By Mona Goldwater, Religions Ed.
Jack texted me tonight from Yosemite: Can't get to the blog due to spasmodic wifi connection. But post this: /xoxo jack
You know, I have a lot of friends & family who are devout meditators. When I was a kid I remember people telling stories about the dire consequences if you startle or arouse people in a hypnotic state. A great pop culture reference to this is the movie Office Space, when Peter Gibbons is hypnotized. His therapist dies of a heart attack before releasing him from the hypnotic state and his personality is transformed, with hilarious consequences.
I am at this family shindig in Yosemite and I realize you have to tread lightly if you walk into a room or somewhere outside and someone appears to be deep into meditation. I mean, if you break their meditation, they could end up like being stuck in neutral forever, right? /Jack in central California
Jack texted me tonight from Yosemite: Can't get to the blog due to spasmodic wifi connection. But post this: /xoxo jack
You know, I have a lot of friends & family who are devout meditators. When I was a kid I remember people telling stories about the dire consequences if you startle or arouse people in a hypnotic state. A great pop culture reference to this is the movie Office Space, when Peter Gibbons is hypnotized. His therapist dies of a heart attack before releasing him from the hypnotic state and his personality is transformed, with hilarious consequences.
I am at this family shindig in Yosemite and I realize you have to tread lightly if you walk into a room or somewhere outside and someone appears to be deep into meditation. I mean, if you break their meditation, they could end up like being stuck in neutral forever, right? /Jack in central California
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Cook-off: David Lynch's quinoa vs. Robert Rodriguez's sinful Texas brisket and ribs
By Mona Goldwater, Cooking Ed.
This is strange. Do other directors add cooking videos to DVDs? Other than Robert Rodriguez, who started it; he's released three or four of his Ten Minute Cooking School episodes on various DVDs—Puerco Pibil, Sin City Breakfast Tacos, and Texas Barbecue...from the GRAVE! (JT Hague, a character in RR's Grindhouse film Planet Terror, sucummbed to the zombies, but left behind his secret barbecue recipe).
David Lynch's quinoa dish--unlike Rodriguez's--is a clean, but rather ascetic dish. Different strokes.
One of Rodriguez's Ten Minute Cooking Schools:
This is strange. Do other directors add cooking videos to DVDs? Other than Robert Rodriguez, who started it; he's released three or four of his Ten Minute Cooking School episodes on various DVDs—Puerco Pibil, Sin City Breakfast Tacos, and Texas Barbecue...from the GRAVE! (JT Hague, a character in RR's Grindhouse film Planet Terror, sucummbed to the zombies, but left behind his secret barbecue recipe).
David Lynch's quinoa dish--unlike Rodriguez's--is a clean, but rather ascetic dish. Different strokes.
One of Rodriguez's Ten Minute Cooking Schools:
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Triavil advertisement (circa 1969): "Lady, your anxiety is showing (over a coexisting depression)"
By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.
This has to be the most pharmaceutical advertisement of all time (and it has some strong competition).
"Lady, your anxiety is showing (over a coexisting depression)" folder cover for "The Nervous System anatomical illustrations" published by Merck, Sharp and Dohme, West Point, PA. Circa. 1969. Advertises Triavil "a broad-spectrum psychotheraputic agent for the management of outpatients and hospitalized patients with psychoses or neurosis characterized by mixtures of anxiety or agitation with symptoms of depression..."
This has to be the most pharmaceutical advertisement of all time (and it has some strong competition).
"Lady, your anxiety is showing (over a coexisting depression)" folder cover for "The Nervous System anatomical illustrations" published by Merck, Sharp and Dohme, West Point, PA. Circa. 1969. Advertises Triavil "a broad-spectrum psychotheraputic agent for the management of outpatients and hospitalized patients with psychoses or neurosis characterized by mixtures of anxiety or agitation with symptoms of depression..."
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Poem: The Dream
By Jack Brummet
1.
There is no verisimilitude,
No character development
Or contrapuntal plotting—
Only shadowy acts and intentions.
2.
What the wind whispers,
The taste of metal in my mouth,
The riptide around Cold Island.
3.
The sound of footsteps,
In unison.
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There is no verisimilitude,
No character development
Or contrapuntal plotting—
Only shadowy acts and intentions.
2.
What the wind whispers,
The taste of metal in my mouth,
The riptide around Cold Island.
3.
The sound of footsteps,
In unison.
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