Friday, June 30, 2000
Austin-based comic book artist Mack
Austin-based comic book artist Mack White has created a great virtual museum called Bison Bill's Weird West:"See THE COMANCHE SCALP DANCE"
"See THE HEAD OF BLACK JACK KETCHUM"
"See A FLYING BUFFALO"
"Also, in Bison Bill's Western Library: THE TREASURE OF THE CHIHUAHUAN DESERT"
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11:48:00 AM
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Thursday, June 29, 2000
Good article in Forbes on
Good article in Forbes on perpetual-motion crackpots and the suckers who fall for them.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
09:12:30 PM
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Wednesday, June 28, 2000
A grunt worker at the
A grunt worker at the San Francisco Kozmo.com warehouse writes about how horrible it is to work there.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
10:17:58 AM
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Tuesday, June 27, 2000
Short bio of offbeat mid-century
Short bio of offbeat mid-century cartoonist Virgil Partch.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
09:44:12 AM
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Thursday, June 22, 2000
Nancy was one of my
Nancy was one of my favorite comic strips. (I mentally put a red X across the face of anyone I meet who can't appreciate the genius of Ernie Bushmiller.) Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, has rules for a game he invented called "5-Card Nancy" that uses cut-up photocopies of Nancy comics.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
02:21:27 PM
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Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Excellent mini-gallery of monster decals
Excellent mini-gallery of monster decals from the '60s.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
12:42:01 PM
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"The Alien" is a short
"The Alien" is a short story that appeared in a 1958 issue of Adam.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
12:32:13 PM
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Freeman Dyson on religion: "Religion
Freeman Dyson on religion: "Religion amplifies the good and evil tendencies of individual souls. Religion will always remain a powerful force in the history of our species." (From Cliff Pickover's Encyclopedia of the Bible)posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
11:56:10 AM
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Paul Tough is a former
Paul Tough is a former editor at Harpers. He also co-published a great zine, called Paris in the 20s, which consisted entirely of clippings of strange reporting from the New York Times. I met Paul when he came to the Wired offices to talk about possibly working for an ill-fated spin-off magazine. We had lunch together and I thought he was very nice and funny. Now he has a new daily site, called Open Letters, "a new magazine of first-person writing in the form of personal correspondence." He writes that he came up with the idea for the site from the way he worked at Harper's: "One editors' trick I started using a while ago is to ask a thwarted writer to start off by writing me a letter on the topic. What comes out is often much more fluid, funny, on-topic, and well-structured than a formal magazine article."posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
11:46:17 AM
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Tuesday, June 20, 2000
New NetBaby games.
New NetBaby games.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
01:22:29 PM
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Monday, June 19, 2000
More carnival autobiography. "I was
More carnival autobiography."I was in a Hey Rube in Lincoln, Illinois, once. It was one of the toughest battles I ever seen. The town boys was coalminers and same of the toughest customers I ever seen. We strung out in a circle around our stuff and stood 'em off with "laying out pins" and whacked 'em with "side-poles", finally giving 'em the run, but they sure could take it. Another Hey Rube in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was started by a gang of students from the University of Michigan, for no good reason at all except perhaps they thought it was funny. It cost the circus I was with more than $35,000 in lawsuits and damage to equipment. In a Hey Rube, most of the lawsuits that follow is usually by some innocent bystander who gets hurt in the scramble."
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Mark Frauenfelder at
03:24:17 PM
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Chapter from 1933 carnival autobiography,
Chapter from 1933 carnival autobiography, Hey Rube.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
03:19:08 PM
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64-year-old Down East Bob's response
64-year-old Down East Bob's response to the end of The Hobo Times.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
03:13:23 PM
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Excellent archive of retro product
Excellent archive of retro product packaging and display graphics. (From Xplane xblog)posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
10:39:10 AM
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Friday, June 16, 2000
Good short bio of Yellow
Good short bio of Yellow Kid Weil, the world's greatest con artist.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
05:27:10 PM
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There's a new biography of
There's a new biography of Leon Theremin. Might be good, but it might be a load of academia-la-la, as it was written by a PhD and came out on a university press.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
04:46:24 PM
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Thursday, June 15, 2000
Visit Port Watson, is about
Visit Port Watson, is about a freedom-lovers' island in the Pacific. I loved this when I first read it around ten years ago, and my friends and I prayed that it was true.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
12:17:44 PM
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Wednesday, June 14, 2000
W. Heath Robinson was a
W. Heath Robinson was a UK cartoonist who drew crazy inventions, sort of like Rube Goldberg. (Thanks hoppersw@cf.ac.uk)posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
12:34:58 PM
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Laff In The Dark has
Laff In The Dark has articles and pictures of old funhouses and "darkrides." I love the smell of darkrides.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
10:26:04 AM
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Tuesday, June 13, 2000
Great article about polish artist
Great article about polish artist Stanislav Szukalski by Jim Woodring.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
04:18:13 PM
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A sample of Rube Goldberg
A sample of Rube Goldberg cartoons. Goldberg was a cartoonist who drew ridiculously complicated machines (similar to the game "Mousetrap").posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
12:26:26 PM
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Even bondage enthusiasts need to
Even bondage enthusiasts need to clean up the house.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
10:28:50 AM
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Friday, June 9, 2000
Excellent online encyclopedia of Warner
Excellent online encyclopedia of Warner Brothers animation brought to you by your friends at posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 02:24:45 PM permalink | Other blogs' commentsShort Harvey Kurtzman profile.
Short Harvey Kurtzman profile.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
02:14:18 PM
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Chicken gristle, or alien implant?
Chicken gristle, or alien implant? You decide.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
02:08:09 PM
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Wednesday, June 7, 2000
Yet another interview with the
Yet another interview with the world's best comic book artist/writer, Dan Clowes.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
01:54:54 PM
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An insider's account of the
An insider's account of the rise and fall of GettingIt.composted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
01:53:26 PM
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Interview with journalist Lester Bangs'
Interview with journalist Lester Bangs' biographer.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
09:53:49 AM
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Monday, June 5, 2000
Laff In The Dark has
Laff In The Dark has articles and pictures of old funhouses and "darkrides." I love the smell of darkrides.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
04:24:38 PM
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Menu for the extinct Tahitian
Menu for the extinct Tahitian Terrace restaurant at Disneyland.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
03:39:30 PM
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Friday, June 2, 2000
Reprint of an excellent 4-page
Reprint of an excellent 4-page comic book story from the 1940s by Plastic Man creator Jack Cole. In the 1960s, Cole became a popular cartoonist for Playboy, then mysteriouly commited suicide.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
01:28:50 PM
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Thursday, June 1, 2000
A 24-year-old gardener claims that
A 24-year-old gardener claims that Martha Stewart hit him with her car and drove away.posted by
Mark Frauenfelder at
04:29:14 PM
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