Non-Stop to Brazil

"Silver Jet Take me I'm all set".

This charming clip is from the 1962 movie 'Copacabana Palace'. The voice is of course from the one and only Ipanema girl - Astrud Gilberto.

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Trashy Travels

... John Waters Movie Locations & other Divine dirt.

2905 Pinewood Ave, Baltimore, MD 21214

Happy Norway To You!

Every time I visit my mother I seem to unearth more and more stunningly awful Norwegian kitsch...how much could she have toted over from the old country when she came here?? Anyway, this time it was lovely black and white guidebooks paying tribute to the joys of Norski living, with photos of cod drying in the sun, hideously ugly wedding parties, babes in the nip posing as the Little Mermaid (hey, no fair, that belongs to the Danes!) and the photo below of a woman who is best pals with a bear. Let's just be grateful by the time this pic was taken, she had weaned if off to the bottle.

LaundroMat Bar

One night over cocktails @
the Beauty Bar a few years back, a friend and I got into a discussion about the kind of bar we'd have. I was very into the idea of a laundromat bar. Well, after doing some research, turns out that there was one...in North Carolina.

My beau played there last spring, but they didn't have t-shirts.

Flying w/Lex10

I recently flew Frontier, a lovely airline with friendly staff and little maps of our progression across the USA! USA! USA!



I wqs impressed with their safety guide, which was rendered in lovely gradients, as opposed to the simpler fills used by the printers of other airline safety guides:



And their use of celebrities, as illustrated by this image of Quentin Tarantino donning an oxygen mask:



But what caught my eye was this "check to see if the coast is clear" portion of the brochure:



REALLY thorough don'tcha think?

Roadie!

The legendary agilitynut continues to pave the way for outstanding roadie pics.




Debra Jean's massive collection can also be viewed here: Roadside Architecture and here: Roadsidenut Blog

Spirit Away with the Lazy Hiker

Travel Japan with the Lazy Hiker as your tour guide.

You’ll visit a theme park in Osaka:
“People still worked in the park, even though they had zero customer. Everyone stayed in their position, waiting for the customers who would never show up...

In other parts of the world, they would surly closed the park in the low season... This was something below the low season. They had absolutely zero customer (except me), yet they kept the park running..... This was a very amusing amusement park.”


"The 300Y I paid for the pink ride up was probably the only income for them for the whole day... and they had to share it among... what? 50 workers? I had a feeling this couldn't be real. Maybe it was only a dream... soon the witch Yu-baaba would pop up from somewhere and boo at me."


Sample some of Nature’s own snacks:

“I also found this flower by the side of the trail. This reminded me I have missed my breakfast. The delusion of my hunger made me think this is a fry egg. So I picked it up and swallowed it like a fry egg. My delusion told me it tasted like a fry egg. And that was the story of my breakfast...”


As the Lazy Hiker so philosophically reminds us,
“Learn from the nature...
Think about the hardworking buffalo which are good for nothing but burger meats. Think about the hard working ants which can't even survive a glass of hot milk.”

Indeed.