I Ain't Here

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I'm back in Dallas after a long stint in the Midwest, Cincinnati specifically. The Corp started firing people within months of my arrival those few years back, and after a change of the Old Men who run things, the Cincinnati office fell under a bad cloud, and has been winding down at a geologic rate. All that to say I've known I was gonna have...
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My First Pin-Up

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I was maybe 15 years old, something of a late bloomer, when I met my first pin-up. There was a set of cards, all Olivia artwork. I remember best the Betty Page inspired stuff. This one was easily my favorite - those long black curls, the full bottom lip, the cleavage appearing almost bashfully from her boa, and those stockinged, fuck me, scissor legs 😘

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orijjinalchris:
When I was 12, in 1971, my older brother swapped me about 20 near-new Playboys for a formica-topped coffee table I had in my room... ironically, he'd given it to me a few years earlier, then decided he wanted it back. Of course, they blew my 12-year-old mind, not just for the naked babes, but for the awesome short science-fiction stories, and the amazing artwork... not the least of which was that they always had an Alberto Vargas pinup in each edition. Whilst Olivia is great, I never really got into her art, because it is so completely a homage to Vargas, it might as well be Vargas.
tbonestrange:
It was over the next couple of years that I started to learn about all the pin-up artists. If I'm really honest with myself, it'd be Betty and Veronica that were the real firsts 😎

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"…

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So opens Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Who doesn't love Johnny Depp as the late Hunter S Thompson? 🙈🙉🙊

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tbonestrange:
It held up. Hell of a movie, and way more deranged than I remembered.
jonas_thorazine:
It holds up very well.  And yes, Gilliam is a masterful madman himself.