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THE ALASKAN HEAT WAVE
By Jim Linderman There were thousands of anonymous women working in the smut business. Here is just one of many, and her tale represents all. An unfinished portrait of Lily Lamont, slightly gap-toothed...
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RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE: CLARENCE HERBERT WOOLSTON WRITES A STANDARD
By Jim Linderman I’m not all about satire, and neither should any questioning soul… there were some good guys in the Jesus racket, and one of them was Clarence Herbert Woolston. A humble man who makes...
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HEINZ BRANDS A (YOUNG) WARHOL
By Jim Linderman I saw Andy Warhol twice. An empty storefront which had once been a Puerto Rican record distributor’s “one-stop” had reopened on the corner of Tenth Avenue and 45th Street as a bar....
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COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
By dixē.flatlin3 The follow up to the first part of this column was going to continue on with social media, as it applies to promotion for the modern artist; however, the untimely death of a friend has...
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PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE
Every dogma has its day and every generation sets another flawless category among the pigeonholes. A flat earth, an earth supported by elephants, an earth around which the entire universe revolves,...
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EDNA ADAMS AND CELEBRITY GOSSIP: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHILD ACTRESS IN HISTORY
By Jim Linderman Edna Adams was the most beautiful child star in history. Shown here several times as a beautiful child, and again ten years later already on her way to becoming a beautiful grifter?...
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NONE SHALL PASS
A few chastity belts are on exhibit in a few European museums, but they are few enough to suggest that their use was not widespread. There is also some doubt as to what that use may have been. There...
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THANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – #8 SAMSON
Examples of individuals renowned for physical strength are not common in the Bible. One whom most children are soon made aware of, however, is Samson, the revered Hebrew man of steel who would in time...
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HANDS
Wednesday morning I pulled the garbage bins out into the street for collection. When I went back for the second one I discovered a lizard had been sleeping under the first. In dragging out the bin,...
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JAYNE MANSFIELD UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS
By Jim Linderman Jayne Mansfield may have been one of the most photographed women in the world during her brief lifetime, but even fifty years after her death they are “still out there” pun intended....
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ANT WEATHER
In New York City, the insects I encountered most frequently were cockroaches. In L.A. it was ants. My respect for each is naturally profound, but it differs according to their specific forms of social...
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HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM
By dixē.flatlin3 I’ve spent weeks trying to figure out what topic I should close out the year with and I have vacillated between many. Then it happened, I heard something on the radio that caused such...
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EPIC BATTLES #5 TICONDEROGA 1777
The English army was 7,000 strong, including Germans, Indians, at least one pregnant woman and Baroness Riedesel and her three children. The American army was around 3,000 and they held the fort. The...
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THE GAME
Deepak Chopra runs a center for spiritual giddy-up in southern California. His forte is mind-body medicine and he includes golf as a means for contemplating the essential balance between the two. In...
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THE WONDER OF ATLANTIS
In their book When the Sky Fell, Rand and Rose Flem Ath present convincing evidence that Antarctica was in fact the mythical Atlantis. Taking their cue from Charles Hapgood’s Maps of the Ancient Sea...
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OVENSTUFFER PASSES
The death of the Frank Perdue revealed many insights into a feathers-to-riches career that according to The New York Times grossed 2.8 billion in its last year alone. “It takes a tough man to raise a...
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GOING ROGUE: TAXIDERMY IN THE MODERN WORLD
By Jim Linderman I am not sure why taxidermists so often freeze their subjects in fight rather than flight. It makes for dramatic presentation, but most animals I have come across in my life have been...
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THANK YOU LORD FOR GIVING ME KNEES – #3 NOAH
As most children will tell you, one human being alone is responsible for the remarkable abundance of fauna that inhabits the planet. According to the Biblical Genesis, it was Noah, the kindly old gent...
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FOODIE FTW!
By dixē.flatlin3 As a teenager I decided to become a vegetarian. I had developed a dislike for the flavor and texture of animal products, it was not an intentional political statement or act of...
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NEW YORK GIANTS
In 1868, New York cigar-maker George Hull got into a discussion with an Iowa evangelist about the reference to giants in the book of Genesis. George was not a particularly religious man, but he was no...
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