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“Townscape,” Carel Willink, 1934

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Is it a fanny pack? OR IS IT STYLISH HEADGEAR?

Either way, that’s a truly terrible salute.  They’re gonna bust me down to private for that.

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Cover to “Detective Comics” #689, Dave Taylor & Bob LeRose, 1995

DC Comics.

Happy Birthday, America!!!

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Cover to “Liberty Girl” #3, Mark Sparacio, 2007

Heroic Publishing.

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God help me, I just ordered a fanny pack.

We need to call it something else to make it seem cooler. Tactical Urban Street Transporter?

If we call it a Tactical REMOVABLE Urban Street Transporter we can go with the acronym T.R.U.S.T., but I’m not sure how cool that sounds — I’ve never been an expert on what’s cool. T.R.U.S.T. sounds like a credit-building plan suggested by a patient, sympathetic banker.

Tactical Urban Freight Forwarder (T.U.F.F.)? No.

Tactical Omnipurpose Urban Ghetto Holder-of-things (T.O.U.G.H.) ? No.

Update: a pal of mine just suggested “Otter Pocket.” Hold up. That’s actually brilliant, because it compels me to adopt a corresponding otter occupant. And I have always wanted an excuse to enlist an otter.




“Vénus Nouant Ses Cheveux,” John William Godward, 1897

“Venus Binding her Hair.”

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“Periods of progress in gender, labor, or racial emancipation have also been fertile terrain for openly racist and sexist aspirants to office …”

“Periods of progress in gender, labor, or racial emancipation have also been fertile terrain for openly racist and sexist aspirants to office, who soothe fears of the loss of male domination and class privilege and the end of White Christian “civilization.”  Cultural conservatives have repeatedly gravitated to antidemocratic politics at such junctures of history, enabling dangerous individuals to enter mainstream politics and gain control of government.”

― Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present




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Cover to Joan Ellis’ “The Hot Canary,” art by Robert Maguire, 1963

Midwood Books.

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“Only a hero could deserve such love.”

His peasant parents killed themselves with toil
To let their darling leave a stingy soil
For any of those smart professions which
Encourage shallow breathing, and grow rich.

The pressure of their fond ambition made
Their shy and country-loving child afraid
No sensible career was good enough,
Only a hero could deserve such love.

So here he was without maps or supplies,
A hundred miles from any decent town;
The desert glared into his blood-shot eyes;

The silence roared displeasure: looking down,
He saw the shadow of an Average Man
Attempting the exceptional, and ran.

— “The Average,” by W. H. Auden




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