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Bookrastination: 01.14

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Bookrastination: A book blog where I talk books, pop culture and more. SPACEHAWK by Basil Wolverton, a brilliant and otherworldly collection from Fantagraphics. Is massively oversize, I'm talking "artist edition" type size, and as much as I love to see all the detail and colors in this big size, it is somewhat unwieldy. After all, if I put every "coffee table book" I own on my actual coffee table, well that table would be stacked. Later on, in the 40s, when editors forced his hero to come back to Earth t...

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Insomnia Notebook: April 2015

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Milking the right-wing politics with Ezra Taft Benson. Ezra Taft Benson was the 13th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also called Mormons or LDS), from 1985-1994. He was old when he died, 94 years of age. (I just read that the average age of LDS leadership is now 80.). 8212; John Heinerman and Anson Shule, The Mormon Corporate Empire. Since that quote was widely distributed in the 1970s the normally moderate Utah Republican Party has been taken over b...

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Insomnia Notebook: March 2015

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Monday, March 30, 2015. I have been going through the Internet Archive, which is a wonderful resource: books, movies, old radio programs. I have been going through sections of children’s books, most from the nineteenth century. A Picture-Book of Merry Tales. I am not blaming the Internet Archive. It is important to preserve this sort of thing to understand the ultimate consequences of bigotry. Links to this post. Monday, March 23, 2015. Roy’s revenge — best served cold. There were punishments handed down...

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Insomnia Notebook: 1969: One week's dead in Vietnam

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015. 1969: One week's dead in Vietnam. But both the combat soldiers and officer personnel were parts of the overall organization. Had I been sent to Vietnam, who knows? In June 1969 Life. One week’s dead. Multiply that week by all the weeks we spent in Vietnam. I think powerful elements of the United States government are often too eager to let someone do the dying.as long as it is not them or their children. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Deliver de letter, de sooner de better.

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Insomnia Notebook: July 2014

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. 8220;I dreamed I read a blog in my Maidenform Bra”. These examples are a good representation of those that were familiar fifty years ago. Maidenform had such success with the ads that there was a contest: the best dream suggestion could win $10,000, a fortune in 1955. The ads were so popular they became a natural inspiration for the folks at Mad. They knew their ads were successful. A men’s magazine. Links to this post. Wednesday, July 23, 2014. You need not go to that much trou...

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Insomnia Notebook: June 2015

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Saturday, June 27, 2015. The real Mad Men. Tales of fear and loathing from Madison Avenue. If you are a fan of Mad Men. Jerry Della Femina was an advertising man who wrote a best-selling book, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor. In 1970, telling tales of the high pressure advertising business. He told it in a very personal and funny way, though, and when I began watching Mad Men. I wondered if they had used Della Femina’s memoirs as a jumping off point for the series. Links to this post.

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Insomnia Notebook: August 2014

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Sunday, August 31, 2014. Magazine.1965 and 1968. I found some 1960’s issues of Look. And just like I did as a kid when my parents’ subscription copies arrived in the mail, I turned first to the cartoons. I recognized the familiar styles of the cartoonists. Look. 8217;s cartoon and humor editor was Gurney Williams. Williams, who had formerly been the cartoon editor for Collier’s. With examples from Colliers. Links to this post. Friday, August 29, 2014. Suspicious type that I am, I call little factoids lik...

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Insomnia Notebook: June 2014

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Saturday, June 21, 2014. Magazine, 1976: Howard Hughes once sat on a toilet for 72 hours.and other stories of his final years. The joke is that a poor person is crazy, a rich person is eccentric. Such seems to be true of Howard Hughes and his mental illnesses, which led to his seclusion and bizarre behavior during the final years of his life. He was often referred to in the press as “an eccentric billionaire.”. His problems had always been there, usually manifested in his obsessive-compulsive disorder.