It’s been far too long and ebay is chock full of great Baby J’s and IOPs.
Lawnchair and Suntan Baby Jesuses.
Tin Can Baby Jesus.
My Little Nightmare Baby Jesus.
Johnny Eck Wall-Mount Baby Jesus.
Baby Jesus Nightie!
Our Baby Jesus of the Perfectly Tweezed Brows.
Sugar Mama
A local mother is in trouble after police say she brought her baby along when she broke into a Downtown Cincinnati candy store early this morning.
Officers believe 19 year old Christine Ruther and three others broke a window to get inside Minges Candy Store on Court Street in Downtown Cincinnati at 1:00 a.m. Police say Ruther took her baby out of a stroller so they could fill it with $400 worth of candy. Officers followed a trail of candy wrappers to Fourth and Race Streets, where they arrested Ruther along with 19-year-old Rebecca Gamble, 18-year-old Terrance Ware and 22-year-old Dwight Reed. Ruther is charged with breaking and entering and child endangering.
It’s “Minges” not “Binges”, Mum.
From the Telegraph, who has the best obits ever:
Frank Berger
Last Updated: 2:09am BST 09/04/2008
Frank Berger, who died on March 18 aged 94, inaugurated the age of psychoactive drugs when, with a colleague, he synthesised the tranquilliser Miltown.
Before 1955, when Miltown was launched on to the market, the only drugs available for treating anxiety and depression were barbiturates - powerful depressants that were addictive and had dangerous side effects.
As Miltown was perceived to have none of those complications, it was an immediate success and soon became the best-selling drug ever in the United States. Time magazine ran a story about “pills for the mind”; signs declaring “Out of Miltown” and “Miltown Available Tomorrow” became familiar sights on drug store windows.
The drug became particularly fashionable among Hollywood celebrities; the television comedian Milton Berle even started calling himself “Miltown Berle”. Within a year of the drug’s release, it was estimated that five per cent of Americans were using it.
By the late 1950s, however, it had become clear that the drug was addictive for some people; other manufacturers got in on the act and sales began to decline.
Although it was never withdrawn, Miltown was subsequently placed on the list of controlled substances and its place was taken by drugs such as Librium and Valium and, more recently, Prozac.
I remember reading one of Shelley Winters’ bios and she kept talking about Miltowns! Wondering where the name came from? A town in New Jersey! What a great permanent address … Miltown, Valley of the Dolls.
A highly anticipated entertainment tradition, The Academy of Magical Arts 40th annual Awards Show & Banquet celebrated the lavish world of mystic and illusion by gathering the top magicians from all over the world for one star-studded spectacular night that included Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Alexander, David Krumholtz, Hal Sparks, Matthew Gray Gubler, Steve Valentine, Tippi Hedren, Loni Anderson, Rose Marie, Bruce Vilanch, Bruce Davison, Dick Van Patten, June Lockhart, DeLyn, Julie Newmar, Richard M. Sherman and Milt Larsen, and host Bob Barker.
Presenter Julie Newmar strikes a feline pose.
Glowing Tippi Hedren.
Photo credits: Kari Hendler
From the LAT:
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The horseshoe for luck! Helen’s hair in the corner!
Priceless:
Olga: “They gonna lock you up!”
An attorney for a septuagenarian woman charged with murder in the staged hit-and-run killings of two homeless men told jurors Monday that his client was framed by her daughter, who was motivated by “intense hatred toward her mother.”
Roger Jon Diamond, who had delayed his opening statement until the prosecution completed its case in the double murder trial, told the jury that Kenneth McDavid’s death was clearly a homicide. But he said Kecia Golay, 44, was at the wheel of the Mercury Sable station wagon that killed him, not her mother, Helen Golay, 77.
Prosecutors said a tow record places Helen Golay at the homicide scene.
“That is the question: Who did this dastardly act, not how was it done,” Diamond told jurors.
The terrifying, Johnny Eck-style doll, the amazing Kindertrauma found my site.
And oh what a joy they are - how did I not know about them?!
The horror!
as well he should. He actually did survive the Holocaust, and later went on to Broadway before Hogan’s Heroes. He’s still performing - check out his website.
(Well, I figured I had an unofficial Hogan’s Heroes music theme this week, and what better way to end it than with LeBeau? He was so stylin’.)
I’d like to thank all of your fabulous people, for this fabulous award … you really know how to make a girl feel FABULOUS!”
– I’m paraphrasing from the Miss Castaway contest here, but it’s true!
FABULON gave me this nice little award which will go on the mantel, right next to my award from G.A.B.O.R.S. - Glamour And Beauty Organization Recipient Society!
From Adena via PCL LinkDump.
