I had a subscription to SEED the most unreadable science magazine in existence. It's as if the folks at Interview and Nylon said, "Hey! let's do a science magazine! We'll make it all edgy and stuff!"

It's ending. The insert obscuring the front cover had this:




More appropriate for Hustler, wouldn't ya think?

Labels: ads, advertising, adverts, audacity, double entendre, filth, funny, magazine, portmanteau, Sex, why

...................! Lemonade!

Labels: advertising, adverts, phone

Monger something else - fear's for the birds!

Labels: ads, advertising, adverts, LOLCATS

Click on either image for a giant view, dolllllll.....inks! 05/68 It must be 2pt type...tiny. Not as sexy as the record club but cool nonetheless.

Labels: 60's, a, ads, advertising, adverts, original, purchases

First of all, EATMOR?!?
Secondly, not as good as "Ham Skanks" but as Neil Young said:
Coutnry girl I think you're pretty,
Got to make you understand,
Got no lover in the city,
Let me be your coutnry man.
Got to make you understand.
I could let this go if it wasn't the name of a SALE ITEM in GIANT FACE TYPE

Labels: ads, advertising, bacon, greatness, Ham, Today's Sunbeam

Here's another copy of WET, this time with a story about a New York potter's field, an agonizing study of artists in real estate, some wacky exercises (I did 'em!)....



....an at length interview with David Lynch,



and a story about music women, featuring possibly the best photo of Debra Harry ever:



I can remember being not so sure about LA, at the time, but now, I'd go tomorrow.

All pics link to the mag......

Labels: 80s, ads, advertising, adverts, Los Angeles, magazine, music, wow

I'm working on a concept piece using "Three Quarter Covers" comics (comics remaindered but given credit for by returning the title area or the top quarter of the cover to the distributor) called Sequitur, using largely non-verbal panels to form a concept stream.

Don't yew judge me! Don't judge me!

The picture immediately below is a link to SEQUITUR


BUT That's not all!!!

I found a couple of other oddities while collecting the images for Sequitur:

First, this pre-Bruno Magli OJ Simpson ad for Dingo boots!

(Link to bigger on click)

Next, this LOLmeme panel from 77 Sunset Strip Comics


Lastly, Barney Bear trying to get his chickens to explore alternative lifestyles....

Link to bigger above^^

The chickens looked shocked, I must admit.

Labels: 50's, action, ads, advertising, adverts, cartoon, comedy, comics, comments, cool, files, flash, fritzi Ritz, fun, funny, mojo, nihilism, yaaaaaaH

Samanco Red Bean Ice Sandwich made by Binggrae foodes - makers of "Feel" Shakes and the "Metacone" - beautiful and delicious. For me, red bean as a dessert doesn't really work. I know it's ubiquitous in several Asian cultures, but...blegh.

These "Ice Sandwiches" however are different, whether it's the combination of flavors or the amount of sweetner in the bean, it's more reminiscent of chocolate than a treat from a culture that isn't that hung up on dessert and tries to substitute more entree material instead of goodies.



It's a little edible fish (?!?!?!) shaped box (.....cause I think "fish" whenever I'm having Ice cream!) made out of - and this is pure genius - Ice cream cone material!!!

Inside is a healthy schmear of red bean, but it's not gross as stated earlier...



Here it is with a big ass bite taken out of it:



Fishy says: "Ow! My face!!"
Purchased at Han Ah Reum Market (H Mart!) impeccably clean, cross-cultural, and fresh!

Labels: ads, advertising, animals, Chinese, diverse, Fish, fun, Ice Cream, Korean

Found this copy of TV Mirror from 1975. Endless stories of bad soap stars amongst the listings, but more astoundingly, a hair-raising selection of column ads that really emphsiaze the benefits of electrically assisted massges......

Labels: ads, advertising, generic, tv

Happy Birthday, M.K. my M.B.
In your honor, here's a tribute to something you hipped me to:

The Life of Riley starring William Bendix:


You, falling asleep to it in your room night after night, me, wondering about its staying power. I was too young to grow up with radio, but it was easy to see this was expert writing suited to the medium. "What a revoltin' development!" became part of the phraseology around here, and Digger O'Dell one of the ghosts that haunted our senses of humor.

But William Bendix wasn't good as Riley because he got lucky. He had a prodigious career, and if you never experience him in anything else, see him in Lifeboat if you haven't yet. It was post-Riley that I reexperienced his performance for the brilliance that it was.


This picture links to archive.org's complete listing of episodes in .mp3 format


This picture below is a link to 174 streaming episodes of the Life of Riley. He's bound to do a couple of his meat commercials in there somewhere.


Here's his IMDb listing
Here's a (it's amazing!) tool that shows when he'll be on U.S. TV next
And here's his Wikipedia entry


Happy Birthday, and....................poopoopeepee!!!!!

I know, I know- less words.

Labels: 1953, 1957, 50's, ads, advertising, adverts, anniversary, archive.org, awesome, birthday, blood, comedy, fun, funny, Los Angeles, public domain, time

MY AMAZON STORE - A deeply rewarding experience - perusing materials and goods I recommend




I've Taken 'em off. I've made about $5.00 in 60 days. There's enough traffic to support it theoretically (based on say, direct mail response rates) but either the payout structure is flawed or people don't behave the same way online. Guess what, I don't care!

But since my Hosting Provider, Performancing, Google and others choose to only use me as a "pole in the water" so to speak, I'm cutting them off.

I AM keeping the Amazon store up though. I dig doing it, and it allows me to encourage supporting the derivative content you might see here, while allowing me to be sarcastic, acerbic, pithy and/or humorous. Plus anything I buy there pays me.

I even really don't care if you buy anything - really.

Having said that, if you're a bigshot and you want to pay me to advertise - get in touch bunky.

Labels: ads, advertising, adverts, Amazon, Astore, hippie, practicality, pragmatic, pragmatist, purchases, realism, realist, reality, suggestion-o-mat