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Pulp Mill Presents: Golden Age Ads Week 2: America at War

In Lunchmeat #5 I ran a satirical review of a 1943 issue of Startling Stories that captured America at the peak of World War II in a way that I had never really wrapped my mind around before. Now I know America post 9/11 felt like a pretty war crazy place. Startling amounts of Americans were gung-ho about taking out Iraq, wiping their ass with Bin-Laden toilet paper, and WMD could be used as justification for just about everything. Well, all that was nothing compared to the pride Americans felt for the country and their soldiers during World War II....

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VHSculpture for the Ages: MONOLITH by David Herbert!

  Crafted in 2005 by David Herbert, here is an amazing (and huge!) sculpture entitled Monolith, which recreates the cassette for the MGM / UA video release of Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. What an extremely appropriate title for this piece, right?   Made using foam, plexiglass and latex paint, this bad boy measures a whopping 2x4x8 feet! Imagine this thing your living room! What a conversation starter! The attention to detail is outstanding, and the fact that he hand painted all of the lettering on the front of the cassette is too cool.   One thing I did...

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Pulp Mill Presents: Golden Age Ads: Week 1 - Sexy Women & Secret Libraries

Primarily, I love the sci-fi pulps of the 40's and 50's for the same reason I am passionate about VHS horror: the secret history of the genre. These volumes are full of the stories that didn’t make the cut at becoming classics and have since drifted into obscurity, but undoubtedly, for better or worse, shaped the future of the genre in very real and tangible ways. An added bonus, however, is the treasure trove of advertisements that accompany these stories from which we can learn quite a bit about the time and context in which they were published, as well...

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