Tag: 1950’s
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The Gender Critical Cult Is Moving Mainstream
The whole Gender Critical movement (TERFs, people who hate trans folks, basically, LGB Alliance, Glinner, JK Rowling, that lot) has been bubbling under toxically for a long time, like QAnon, like Flat Earthers but less benign, anti-vaxxers and the like. But it seems that this very vocal small group of Xtian fundie right-wing linked people…
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Swinging new DJNoNo album – Interval
Interval is a new album focusing on Intermission and Interlude music such as the Potter’s Wheel and Pages from Ceefax and visual mid-program intervals such as Tony Hart’s Gallery. These breaks in film, TV and radio broadcast were before 24 hour programming often included library or production music and are the precursor of the modern…
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RC 283: Rubik’s Cube (ETTT)
Time to play a game…you have to guess the theme, like RadMac’s Tea Time Theme Time on 6Music, can you work out the theme linking the tracks in the first hour? Can you give up after the Rubik’s Cube ruins your wrists and either peel off all the decals and stick them back on, or…
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Rules for women and Jay Smooth’s philosophy
Love the philosophy and thoughts from Jay Smooth, and his excellent channel, well worth checking out. It’s worrying how certain ‘fedora’ atheists/cynics seem to treat women online, the Men’s Rights lot – and how they want to regulate those who aren’t like them – from women to the LGBTQ. Worried mostly because they are the…
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Zoot Boots vol 2
I know this has been slowly bubbling under for ages, but finally Zoot Boots 2 has arrived, the album of 1950s or earlier electroswing and vintage mashups. Loving PomDeter’s Rhumbleboogie (yay! Andrews Sisters!) and g4gorilla’s Mony Mony Billy Idol vs Tommy Dorsey swing bootleg atm, and anyone who mashes Secret Love by Doris Day is…
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Scary adverts
Came across the above advert via 4chan then had a little Google for more. Turns out 1940’s and 1950’s adverts and earlier, while being archaic are also really odd. I mean scary. And really bad for your health…especially DuPont and their frankly psychotic Cellophane ads – were they high on the plastic smell? I could…