I am a pathological reader. I must admit as much with a great deal of regret. For in admitting this compulsion to you I also must face the fact myself and am forced to confront the awful truth of the toll this has taken on my psyche, my vitality and perhaps my life.
Black Hole by Charles Burns... Click to enlarge.
Ad for Kinder-Puwder, King of Pediatric Drugs — Morikawa Chikashige, 1880
By Andy K. Brooks
Currently in its sixth season, “The Misadventures of Maya and Miguel,” the children’s animated TV series, is precisely the type of fare that ruffles the feathers of the easily ruffled. Produced by those liberal wimps over at PBS, the award-winning show, which chronicles the lives of tween siblings Maya and Miguel Santos and their cadre of disabled, multicultural, and/or bilingual amigos, introduces Spanish words and phrases in each and every episode to precious English-speaking little ones.
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Night Flight's Chaz Newby
Regular visitors of Night Flight will be sad to learn of the untimely passing of gadget reviewer, lifestyle columnist and Best Buy employee Charles “Chaz” Newby, 43.
It’s the end of the cotton candy heat wave fantasy summer time, which means that you need to get your exposed lumps, bumps, and frumps all covered up with hot fall duds! Whether it’s for sprucing up the workplace with your QT Pie look or to impress a certain someone, I’ve put together a few flashes of perspiration promoting inspiration. Looking super cool can be super tricky, but with these tips you’ll be catching flutters and stares for weeks to come.
Watch and Learn: Euro Vacation Shopping… (New Looks by Dr. John)
Dancin’, The Tubes contribution to the Xanadu soundtrack is either a parody of or the pinnacle expression of male sexual aggression and female-as-property mentality inherent in popular music. Though we may be disgusted by the deranged sentiments of the lyrics of Dancin’ we can at least applaud the frankness of the brutality. The song is unreserved and unapologetic in its overt adolescent male demands and its masturbatory uses of a partner it praises implicates the entire American music industry in the collective psychic rape of the feminine in our culture.
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Album de Rémy et Contremoulins. “Radiographies. Laboratoire des travaux pratiques d’histologie de la faculté de medecine de Paris”. Radiographie d’un cadavre de femme, 19th century
