Unbelievable tale of a gentleman's unfortunate bottle encounter. There was a scientifically plausible explanation as to how he got his penis stuck in it.
John Cotta: An Early, Failed Forensic Toxicologist? (via Strange Company)
Street Artist Frankey Adds Clever Elements to Urban Objects
A Spiritual Revisiting of the Lost Beatles Ashram. Abandoned for decades, people never stopped going there.
Surprising No One, Toxic Men Are Being Weird About Barbie Online.
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988. (via Metafilter, where many tongue-in-cheek explanations are offered)
A Retro Candy-Colored Dream House. In case you've always wanted to live in a Barbie colored home from the Oppenheimer era.
Titanic Thompson: The Golfer Who Married Five Women and Murdered Five Men. (via Strange Company)
Toxicities and phobias aside, from what I've seen from the previews Barbieland is not for me. Seems like a cute kids movie though. And Oppenheimer is like 3 hours long. I'd wait for the Netflix DVD but that's done so maybe when it streams.
ReplyDeleteChristmas 1963, the two guys I shared an apartment with in Boston gave me a plastic toy Hot Rod with Barbie in a swimsuit sitting at the wheel. The cashier at SEARS objected the doll didn't go with the car but one of the guys sweet talked and later dated her.
ReplyDeleteI had bragging rights to actually owning a Barbie doll but never used that to bolster my resume.
She became the property of the trash-man.