If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

This one’s a Bettie Page fan, I present for your amusement:

I’ll say it again:

Dear Image Surfers,
SAVE IMAGES TO YOUR OWN SERVER, LINK BACK - OTHERWISE, PREPARE FOR PUBLIC HUMILIATION!
Love,
Amy

Spring for image hosting, instead of leeching off mine, thanks!

Plan on this:

I occasionally swap my images around to prevent the gang of Lichtenstein hotlinkers who display images from my server on their MySpace profiles.

While I enjoy Lichtenstein’s work, I still question his ethics, since he took his images directly from retro comics. How appropriate that many of his fans are secondhanders as well, leeching off of my server’s bandwidth. >;)

Dear Image Surfers,
SAVE IMAGES TO YOUR OWN SERVER, LINK BACK - OTHERWISE, PREPARE FOR PUBLIC HUMILIATION!
Love,
Amy

Taunted as “witch spawn” on the playground, the 72-year-old granddaughter of Helen Duncan seeks an official pardon for her grandmother, Britain’s last convicted witch.

She was jailed for 9 months as a threat to National Security because officials feared the medium would leak information on their D-Day plans.

She disclosed — allegedly through contacts in the spirit world — the sinking of two British warships long before the news was officially made public.

She also told the parents of a missing sailor that his ship, HMS Barham, had sunk. That was true, but to preserve morale, the sinking was not announced.

She should absolutely be pardoned, for no crime was ever committed.

( Source | Support )

Far be it from me to discern what animals are Ok for wearing, since I own leather that’s also inhumanely bred for dying, but crossing out the word “Raccoon” from the label of clothing lined in DOG HAIR hardly makes a jacket more palatable for consumers.

Naturally, they are trying to downplay the domesticated animal aspect here, and fair enough, these dogs aren’t typically domestic and are one of the few that actually hibernate, but “Asiatic raccoons” are canines, not even related to raccoons by species.

What makes it shady, is labeling it as something other than what it truly is, a half-truth - lying by omission. I don’t know what it is that makes me feel Ok about slinging cowhide over my body, but simultaneously repulsed by fur.

(Article 1 | 2 | Info )

It would seem that there was something more driving Freud’s theories on repression and sexual desire, it is alleged that he signed into a hotel as Sigmund Freud and Frau on a trip with his wife’s sister, that they shared the room and a torrid affair by accounts of CG Jung.

Shown in the photograph are Freud’s wife, Martha Bernays at left, and her sister, Minna, who lived with them and was the “frau” sharing a room with him on the documented trip.

Of further fascination to me, was the fact that even back in 1918, Freud was progressive and well-versed enough to know that homosexuality was not to be confused with a mental illness or disease. This is documented in his comforting handwritten letter to a mother who was concerned for her gay son ( Page 1 | Page 2).

If you buy into graphology, his handwriting says interesting things about him - the way it is scarcely legible, upward slanted and the dots race ahead of the i’s they’re intended to top.

Sources: IHT, NYT, Wiki & LOC