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If you're not watching Jon Benjamin Has a Van, you're wasting your life. There. I said it.

Bluh!

Down for the Count by "poopbear" of Deviant Art.

Room for One, Please

Keasler, M., Slemmons, R., & Kirino, N. (2006).
Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan. New York: Chronicle Books.

Wonderfully seedy images of Japanese love hotels courtesy of photojournalist Misty Keasler. That last one has a real Spongebob Videodrome vibe happening.

Happily Ever After

From a 1950 pamphlet by the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, a group that promoted the sterilization of "mental defectives" by the state.

The following poem was written by Dr. Clarence Gamble in 1947 and submitted it to the North Carolina Mental Hygiene Society for them to use in promotional materials to rally support for state sterilization. Gamble was heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune and a keen supporter of the Human Betterment League. The Mental Hygiene Society's refusal to use his poem confused Gamble. He wrote to them, “Your unfavorable criticism of the story of the two moron families interested me. It will be helpful if you can tell me the reasons behind this.”

Once there was a MORON, that means
a person that wasn't very bright.
he couldn't add figures
or make change
or do many things
an ordinary man does.
So he couldn't find a job
and the RELIEF OFFICE
had to help him out
for YEARS AND YEARS.
And one day he met
another MORON
who wasn't any cleverer than he was.
But SHE was nicer to him
than anyone had ever been.
And so he MARRIED HER.
And soon there was a BABY,
and then ANOTHER
and ANOTHER
and ANOTHER.
And the welfare department
had to pay the family
MORE of the TAXPAYER'S
MONEY
and MORE
and MORE
and MORE

Giger x Abdul Alhazred

Giger, H.R., & Barker, C. (1993). H. R. Giger's Necronomicon. Las Vegas, NV: Morpheus International.

This thing is the size of a coffee table.