Posts filed under 'ephemera'

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Appetizing

By kate on March 22nd, 2004

Here’s a site that I came across maybe a year ago or so, and I recently sent it to a friend. In doing so, I looked through it again and remembered just how hilarious it is… Weight Watchers Recipe cards from 1974! They’re horrifying!

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I had nothing to do with this

By kate on March 17th, 2004

Two weeks ago, Steve and I were in a Brooklyn, New York bar with friends and we discovered this fascinating bit of graffiti in the (unisex) bathroom: None of us could fully understand it, but I was pleased.

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This month, my Gorey calendar says…

By kate on September 5th, 2003

“… it was too dark to hear anything.” I like that phrase.

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First Livejournal Post

By kate on July 4th, 2002

This incident caused her to become a religious maniac (That is the caption on the June page of my Edward Gorey calendar.)

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Encyclopedia Project

By kate on January 19th, 2002

I am generally fascinated by how morals are omnipresent in everyday media. (I own a CD-ROM of old educational, industrial, and promotional films from the 1930s-60s called Ephemeral Films. They’re incredibly humorous and interesting at the same time. Hundreds of them are online at the Internet Moving Image Archive.) You can see pictures of the […]

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Hooked!

By kate on May 1st, 1998

This comic is part of a 1970s Christian comic book called “In His Steps.” Loreen is eventually “saved,” but later is killed while saving the life of the other woman, Gini. We can’t have such a fallen woman around in the end, now can we? If you want to use this graphic, go ahead. It’s […]