Davy Rothbart and his hideous plaid pants are coming to a theater, bar or gallery near you! (Unless you live in Florida, apparently.) If you haven’t been to a FOUND event, I highly recommend them. If you’re already a fan, a Maine filmmaker is putting together a documentary about Davy’s love life called My Heart is an Idiot.
A 9-year-old Castle Rock kid published a book for his school book fair on how to talk to girls. The brilliant idea made it all the way to an appearance on Ellen and press in New York (where I saw this story in the paper while riding the subway). You can buy the book as well. Take a peek.
I’m sure Portland-west has had this for awhile, but I can’t be bothered to check…
I was at the library the other day and noticed a download station for audiobooks. Thought that was nifty, so I looked it up on their site today. Here it is!
Now I need to see if there’s anything good.
Watchmen trailer looks good so far.
I actually have this book! It’s really awesome, and I even used a bunch of these images to illustrate a zine I published many years ago.
How to Preserve Foods. A rack of canned beans is lowered into a radioactive container where, in six to twenty minutes, the beans will receive enough radiation to preserve them indefinitely. Atomic radiation of foods will be routine in the seventies. Meats, vegetables, and fruits will be preserved by the process. Radiated foods can be kept for years with little or no refrigeration.
Even back in 1953 they knew better than to play with radiation.
Bacon in a Toaster. Bacon would be prefried, then hermetically sealed in this design for a future aluminum package. One way to heat it for eating would be to drop it in the toaster; another, put in oven or broiler. A major advantage is the elimination of utensils for cooking. Package is opened by turning back the edges. Leftovers are easily preserved by refolding the pouch.
Our 2008 reality offers a poor substitute.
Translating Machine. Typist copies story from Russian newspaper Pravda on special machine which converts Russian letters to punched holes in paper tape. Insertion of the tape into another machine produces translation. By the 1970′s, automatic translation of practically all foreign publications and books will be routine.
Private detectives recommend you don’t use this method.
Also from 1962: The Sears Catalogue
A man convinced an underage girl that he was a half-werewolf, half-vampire hybrid.
He also had a guardian dragon. To prove to police that he was a hybrid, he showed them his canine teeth. The police responded, "I let him know that all mammals, including humans, have canine teeth."
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