Mystic Skull, Ouija, and the Fortune Telling Veda Board
Okay, we all know the Ouija board, but this has a couple other keen things. Mystic Skull: the Game of Voodoo is a race to… Read More »Mystic Skull, Ouija, and the Fortune Telling Veda Board
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Hula Lamp
Photo by Cottage Classics.
Well, that cover hasn’t aged well
The Escondido High School yearbook is the Gong. Why? I haven’t been able to determine. A few other covers have some mildly Asian themes, which… Read More »Well, that cover hasn’t aged well
Happy Bastille Day & crisply starched clothes
Oops, it looks like eres is a Belgian company. Photo by Smoke Tree.
Sorry, everyone. I don’t know his name.
Photo by Vincie.
Necklace of the Cthulhu Cult
Complete with tentacles. Photo by John Moran.
Flintstone couches
These couches look like they were made for the Flintstones, but as it happens the decor of much of the rest of the home was… Read More »Flintstone couches
Extremely friendly octopus netsuke – 蛸と海女
“The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife [by Hokusai] is not the only work of Edo-period art to depict erotic relations between a woman and an… Read More »Extremely friendly octopus netsuke – 蛸と海女
Hatsuyuki
What is it? It was a mystery, but fortunately, it has a prominent name and I have the Googles. It is a manual block ice… Read More »Hatsuyuki
Pop Party in Petersburg & other German hits
Love the devotchka doing the prisyadka on the cover of Pop Party in Petersburg, from 1969. At that time, of course, St. Petersburg was Leningrad,… Read More »Pop Party in Petersburg & other German hits