Category Archives: culture

Vintage Girlwatchers

Posted on September 13, 2007 by

Let’s put some shine on this blog with pictures of saucy girls. Vintage Girlwatchers is a site about the girlie magazine from 1950′s Girl Watcher and related. According to the description: This site exists to celebrate and preserve books and … Continue reading →

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The World of Playing Cards

Posted on September 12, 2007 by

The World of Playing Cards is where you can explore about playing cards, their history, design and manufacture, and see many different types of cards from around the world. Very nice collection, with many images of ancient decks of playing … Continue reading →

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The Grim Reaper Cat

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Bibi

I grew up picturing death as the Grim Reaper, the skeletal figure carrying a large scythe. Even though I studied in catholic schools, I’ve never believed their philosophy that death is an angel of God and there is a better … Continue reading →

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Life on Mars

Posted on July 21, 2007 by

Life on Mars: An Exhibit of Classic Science Fiction Magazine Covers and Interior Illustrations from the 1920s-1950s. Cool stuff, with a small, but nice, collection of covers and illustrations of pulp sci-fi magazines. They have tripods, green men, robots and … Continue reading →

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Happy Friday Monster Cat Blogging

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Bibi

It’s Friday and it’s thirteen! I’m going to make my contributions to Friday Cat Blogging and some horror. I hope you enjoy. Jaakko, a The Groovy Age of Horror (NSFW) contributer, posted about Biglie Humane (The Human Balls), a fumetti … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia and Wikitravel

Posted on April 1, 2007 by

The Wikipedia main page displays some curious articles today: George Washington the inventor, the independence day of San Serriffe and it announced that editors will be charged in order to edit (screenshot). Wikitravel (screenshot) also points to unusual places, like … Continue reading →

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April Fool’s Manual 2007

Posted on April 1, 2007 by

This isn’t a survival kit, and the best I can say about today is: don’t believe in anything. But wait: before you start doing that, read this post please. I selected some real articles, from real sites about April Fools’ … Continue reading →

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Women of Our Time

Posted on March 8, 2007 by

A fabulous exhibition: Women of Our Time – photographs of some of twentieth-century America’s famous and influential women. Even without big pictures, the site is very interesting covering those influential women of many different areas: photographers, writers, actresses, poets, athletes, … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day: 2007

Posted on March 8, 2007 by

I would like to congratulate all the women for our International Women’s Day. I won’t write any manifesto or any protest about the injuries that we are still suffering, all the prejudice and violence that keep happening against us. I … Continue reading →

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Vintage Brazilian Ads

Posted on February 26, 2007 by

As I said a while ago, it isn’t easy find good sites about vintage Brazilian culture and ephemera. Happily this has been changing in the last years and many sites to preserve this memory appeared. A very good example of … Continue reading →

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