Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The New Adam magazine

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I was checking some stories out of the Finnish porn magazine called Uusi Aatami (New Adam) at the university library. Uusi Aatami used some ...

Not the Vampirella you're used to?

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Now, this one is ugly. An artificial vagina, called Vampyrella, advertised by none other than the Warren company's great heroine . (Elin...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Stuff about Finnish pulp fiction

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I posted on another blog a bunch of entries I wrote for Thrilling Detective many years ago - but Kevin Burton Smith declined these, since th...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Ossian Saarman's sex cartoon

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Here's a two-page cartoon made by Finnish artist Ossian Saarman for the Uusi Aatami magazine. The story goes like this: A woman sees her...

Say what?

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Couple of very ugly and amateurish cartoons from the Uusi Aatami magazine. The man: "I get the feeling that at least in one matter wome...

Love Doll

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And finally, an ad for a love doll. At least she's arrived! A wondrous, pumping Barbara. The baby doll for all the big boys at last in F...

Forgotten books

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You know that I've written two books on forgotten writers (well, you could count my Pulpografia and Six Guns also, since most of the p...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Nice covers for Michigan Conservation

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Some time ago I picked up from the university library's remainder shelf several issues of a magazine called Michigan Conservation that ...

Another Michigan Conservation

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Here's still another issue of Michigan Conservation - it's from May 1953.

And still couple cartoons

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Michigan Conservation had also a cartoon on its backpage, of course on conservationist material. The illustrator was someone called Warbach ...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Films seen lately: Mesa of Lost Women, Eaten Alive, Near Dark

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Should do everything when they first come to mind. I meant to write something about two rather forgotten horror films when I saw them at a s...
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Monday, November 12, 2007

My comix

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In our on-going series about kiddie affairs: here's a cartoon I made to entertain Kauto and Ottilia a while back. It's called Ottili...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Ottilia's fairytale of sorts and old typewriters

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I have several old typewriters. They are all post-WWII - I think one is from the fifties, the rest (three or four, I'm not actually sure...
Friday, November 09, 2007

About the high school shooting

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Here's a pretty good news link about the Jokela high school shooting. The country is in a shock, as you might surmise, since nothing of ...
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The Divine Marquis

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Finished late last night Justine by Marquis de Sade. What a read! I said to Elina that it's one baffling book. "Is it exciting?...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

I'd like to be right for once

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(I trust that at least most of our foreign readers have read or heard something about the high school massacre here in Finland in which eigh...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

European Film Noir

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I just finished an interesting collection of essays and articles called European Film Noir . The book was released early this year, and it w...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Jan Wolkers's Turkish Delight

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I finished yesterday on a train a Dutch novel, Turks fruit (1969) by Jan Wolkers. I don't think the book has ever been published in Eng...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Naked Came the Stranger

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In the on-going escapade of reading erotic novels for a forth-coming book, I recently finished Naked Came the Stranger by "Penelope Ash...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

The book on forgotten writers out

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My newest book is out : 11 essays on forgotten Finnish writers. It's already available at the Helsinki Book Fair to which I'll be a...
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