DESTROYING MY ART

Worst Children's Book Ever

I don't know the title of this "childrens book" nor the publisher, but it's scary awful!  Seriously this is just frightening on so many levels!

LINK - Dormitem

Overthinking

A funny series of promotional videos for a new book, revealing what men are "really thinking" at key moments. The one posted here is censored, the others aren't, so they may be NSFW.

(And when, dear readers, will the record-scratch sound effect finally play itself out? Kids today have likely never actually played a record!)

Awesome!

Somebody please buy this book and tell me if it works!

LINK

Octopus Pulp Covers

Poulpe (the French word of Octopus) Pulps is a "silly website" and therefore my favorite kind of site.   A great collection of pulp novels, comic books, and magazine covers that contain those creepy cool creatures from the deep dark depths (enough alliteration already!)

Did I ever mention the story about my old dive buddy Don, who once killed an octopus off of Hawaii by biting it between the eyes?   He was just a kid when he did it, but what a fucking nutty story.

LINK - POULPE PULPS

Awesome Italian SF Covers

Check out these amazing pulp sci-fi covers from Italy.  I would love to have these pictures covering my walls.  Far out!

(Pablo you need to translate these for me!)

(via: BoingBoing)

LINK - Mondourania.com

Choose Your Own Adventure

Whatever happened to those great Choose Your Own Adventure Books?   Turns out Chooseco (huh?) has started publishing them again!

With 250 Million Copies sold - they gotta be good!  I loved these as a kid!  Awesome!

LINK - Visual History of the Series

LINK - Amazon

MAD Cover Gallery

Jim Bumgardner has put together a really fun cover pop website with thousands of MAD Magazine covers.  Pulled from Doug Gilford's amazing collection of Mad, it's a real blast to explore.

Worth 5 minutes if Mad was a part of your childhood!

LINK

The 700 Hobos Project

John Hodgman is a funny man.  A genius if you will, in his own un-hilarious way.  He puts the "dead" in dead-pan humor.  You might know him from his recent part time job as a reporter on THE DAILY SHOW, or perhaps his role as "The PC Guy" in Apple's new TV commercials.  But my favorite is his book: "The Areas Of My Expertise"  An amazing almanac of American history, science, culture and media as told by John.  Interestingly enough, it is thoroughly not researched, and completely invented by the author. 

One interesting chapter in his book is: "HERE ARE THE 700 HOBO NAMES YOU'VE REQUESTED"  Which is exactly that, 700 hobo names.  According to John, Hobo (the ragamuffin gypsy travelers of the 20's and 30's) changed America dramatically in several Historical moments.  Of course it's all complete bullshit, but as I always say "it's not if you're right or wrong, it's how you say it."   And John Hodgman says it like your 11th grade History teacher.  Who are you to argue?

Strange as it sounds, hundreds of artists have posted illustrations of the various hobo's independently on the net.  Someone finally threw together a website to house the thousands of drawings and celebrate American Hobo History.

LINK - to Author's Official Site

LINK - to E-Hobo - unofficial (Internet phenomena) site

The Winning Team

What's with Robin face planting into that guys ass?

Pulp "Classics"

Slate magazine did a nice little collection of Pulp rendtions of classic books.  Really fun to see, anything can be sold as taboo and sultry!

"Mash me a fin gate, so I can cop a fly!"  I'm hip to that!

LINK  (via: Boingboing)