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Hi there! Hope you found me alright. I’m still fumbling my way around WordPress, so bear with me, and thanks for sticking around as we all make the transition to the new Avocado website. As long as I can stay … Continue reading Let’s Read Woman’s Own, March 1956
The pygmy loxodonta cyclotis, better known as the weenie African forest elephant, is in need of your help today. The weenie African forest elephants are known for their large ears, short legs, and propensity to get drunk off of the … Continue reading Adopt An Elephant
This week’s thread features Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man! Mostly I picked him this week because he had a rather triumphant debut on The Flash. It looks like they’re going to do right by the character, which is exciting. Also … Continue reading Weekly Comics Thread
This is part one in an ongoing series of short fiction. Let it be known that this is a tale of most grievous madness, horror, and cruelty to the human mind and heart. A love story most tragic and unsettling, as … Continue reading At the Mountains of Man-Ass, Part I
**Click Here for FAQ & links to previous threads** The Saturday Evening Post has been running since 1821 and is still going today, albeit now only published bimonthly. With the majority of the readership being the American middle class, the magazine is a … Continue reading Let’s Read The Saturday Evening Post from August 8, 1964!
**Links to past Old Magazine threads and FAQ are HERE** This week we’re looking at Man’s Magazine, one of my favorite in the archive’s collection. Man’s ran from 1952 to 1976. In the 60s, the magazine was well known for its hand-painted covers that … Continue reading Let’s Read Man’s Magazine, March 1959!
In light of some brave adventurer finally shattering the cursed amulet that protected the soul of Hugh Hefner for all those years, I thought you’d like to see another Playboy from Hef’s golden age of swingerhood. This isn’t a Hefner tribute per … Continue reading Let’s Read Playboy, July 1964! (Work Safe)
Hey everyone! It’s me, not delivering what I promised last week. Having a cold and staying home from the archive to keep my plague from spreading unfortunately cuts me off from accessing the fun stuff like old Playboy magazines and whathaveyou. Thankfully … Continue reading Let’s Read Life Magazine from 1945!
Welcome to the second half of the WWII-era magazine review! Last week was a working-class general interest magazine from 1941, when America was on the brink of war and desperately itching for a reason to go. This week we’re looking … Continue reading Let’s Read Harper’s Bazaar from 1942!
For this week and next week, I will be spotlighting the great era of American print journalism during World War II. I say “great” in part because of the outstanding quality of art, prose, and intellectualism that the magazines of … Continue reading Let’s Read Liberty Magazine from 1941!
Look magazine ran from 1937-1971 and was a less prestigious but no less popular competitor of Life magazine. Today its lasting legacy is probably for launching the photography career of Stanley Kubrick, but at its peak circulation the magazine was a household fixture … Continue reading Let’s Look at Future Predictions from 1962! (Look Magazine)
Our magazine this week is Esquire, December 1934. Esquire was, and still is, a gentleman’s magazine for the classiest of gentlemen. Whereas Playboy sought to teach the working Joe or dweeby college freshman how to project the image of a worldly sophisticate, Esquire‘s readership needed little … Continue reading Let’s Read Esquire, December 1934!
Sometimes my job requires me to read through old girlie magazines (I know, poor me). Let’s look at a Playboy together in the garage before mom catches us! I will not post any nude content from the magazine. At worst, the images … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Playboy! (Work Safe)
Grant Morrison is my favorite writer of all time. In fact, he is my favorite creative individual, regardless of medium, of all time. He opened my eyes to new worldviews and shaped my personal philosophy into what it is today. … Continue reading Writer Spotlight: Grant Morrison
What? you’re thinking. Him? The sweet guy who takes care of beloved Curious George, the world’s favorite primate? Top five, anyway. What could you have against him? Good question. How about a lifetime of deceit, cruelty, neglect, and sexual predation, … Continue reading The Monster with the Yellow Hat
Once upon a time there lived two young boys who wanted nothing more than to explore and play in the woods. They would often sneak off from their wicked step mother while their father was off chopping wood, disappearing until … Continue reading Hamish and Grigory
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