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Nor did I, but I needed proof

BRING ME CARRIE FISHER'S ROMANCE COMICS COLLECTION

UPDATE ON THE BELOW:

Carrie Fisher was NOT making up the name "Leather Nun" while describing her favorite underground comix

"Tales from the Leather Nun" was a real-deal erotic compilation from 1973!!!! Featuring R. Crumb, Spain, and many others!!

UPDATE ON THE BELOW:

Carrie Fisher was NOT making up the name "Leather Nun" while describing her favorite underground comix

"Tales from the Leather Nun" was a real-deal erotic compilation from 1973!!!! Featuring R. Crumb, Spain, and many others!!

Kids these days aren't even being taught basic Computer Defense thanks to No Child Left Behind

OMG

"I think my favorite was LEATHER NUN. And you had to be eighteen to buy it.”
— Carrie Fisher

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COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC #4 (Feb-Apr. 1997)

FRANK HERBERT • Before long it will be at least a matter of self-defense to have your own computer You are already being taken advantage of by people who use computers.

OMNI (April 1980)

A long nighttime highway with some weird shapes above it and these headlines: POLITICS OF SPACE - NEW HORIZONS IN SUBLIMINAL PERSUASION - MALCOLM FORBES ON THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM • THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

OMNI (February 1981)

SATANISM 101 Beyond the Ritual - Chamber there are lessons A to be learned. With Life ‘ as the classroom and Satanism 101 as your guide to the practical implementation of Satanic knowledge into everyday situations. SSS ASAE Dark Greetings Class, I’m going to address the most common atheist, (and pretty much any non-Satanist) question, "Why the name ‘Satanism"’. First, I didn't invent the religion, so I'm stuck with the name. However, for a more

ADDICTED TO CRUCIFIXION #4

Star Wars Cast & Crew Find Mutual Interest: Comic Books “Sometimes | reality fett iterate around the set,” said Mark Hammil, Star Wars’ Luke Skywaiker. However, # wasn't discussing Shakespeare with Alec Guinness that made him feel unread, it was discussing comic books with aficionado George Lucas. Mark explained his love for comic books. “When | was a kid, we weren't alowed to have them in my family. | was told they were a waste of money. But | still got them somehow. That made them even more exciting to read because they were forbidden. And my tnends ail had them. My love for them now ts a kind of compensation for not being able to buy thern then. | have collected a lot of them now, tike SHver Surfer. | love Green Lantern—the one with the ring. Superman got on my nerves, but | ke Batman because he could get killed. And | got my fix of monsters from Classics Hustrated, which had things like Frankenstein.” George Lucas was 90 passionate about comics as a boy that Alex Raymond’s Fiash Gordon was the inspiration for Star Wars. kis love of the genre has remamed 30 constant that he co-owns a gallery-booksiore in New York City which speciakzes in space fantasy and science fiction comic strips and comic books. Carrie Fisher is also a devotee of comuc books, but her taste runs more to ‘ those love comics. | sti have them, and | am still fascinated by them. They gave dating tips, which was my favorite section. There was Trve Love, Young Romance, and Just Married. They had the most delightfully bizarre stones. | read them twice as soon as | got them. They were always the same and always great. Juliet stuff, but « always worked. “There's also another series that | loved,” said Carrie. “tt was underground comic types of things, like Sime and Despair, | didn’t really read them. | just loved to look at their covers. | think my favorite was the Leather Nun. And you had to be eighteen to buy it” Even producer Gary Kurtz was not immune to the comic book mara on the Star …

BANTHA TRACKS #1 (1978)

FREE JOHN AND YOKO (well, really free John Sinclair,)

I suppose you could cut this pic out if you wanted!!!!

FREE JOHN AND YOKO (well, really free John Sinclair,)

I suppose you could cut this pic out if you wanted!!!!

Mad trees are just normal trees on a world where everythings insane

SAHARA CLUB: SPRING '88 Pic of two VERY white guys in all-white clothing

This print ad in "Rolling Stone" from 1988 feels like it belongs in "Der Stürmer" in 1938

TED NUGENT: MOTOR CITY MADMAN THE STRANGE SECRET WORLD OF AUTISM

More remarkable / foreboding old Rolling Stone cover items:

COUNTING CROWS: THE BIGGEST NEW BAND IN AMERICA THE KIDS ARE ALL WHITE: L.A.'S FOURTH REICH SKINHEADS THE GLOBAL SWEATSHOP: GREIDER ON THE FUTURE OF YOUR PAYCHECK

Going through old Rolling Stone cover blurbs is a real trip from the vantage point of 2026!

To wit, this, from 1994's issue #685:

ALANIS MORISSETTE: ANGRY WHITE FEMALE SPECIAL REPORT: THE MILITIAS AND THE NRA

Nearly all of these old Rolling Stone issues have cover-blurb juxtapositions that remind me that (a) fascism's rise in the USA goes waaaaay back, (b) lots of reporters valiantly tried to warn everyone else, and (c) the 90s were just a better time for mass-marketed music

To wit:

Last night, this man scored. [pic of van morrison with eyes blacked out by a bar]

Too few of you heard about it. To most of you, the face of this man is still a mystery. His voice, too. And that we count as a major trag-edy, even in these tragic'd up times. We suspect, however, that so far you don't give a spit. We take another tack: MAY WE APPEAL TO YOUR BASIC INSTINCTS? We thought so. Astral Weeks is very erotic stuff. Its Beside You song, for instance, makes The 1812 sound like 1362 (in which year, some of you may recall, happened not one damn thing, erotic or otherwise). Beside You will attack your senses like the sudden sniff of a whore's underwear. For instance, Madame George. A nine-minute song about a man dressed in drag. Sitting in the corner. Playing dominos. Sitting on a sofa, playing games of chance. You glance into his eyes. For instance, Cypress Avenue. About a lonely man watching all the little girls on their way back home from school. This lonely man, and they're so young, and so bold. So 14 years old. Last night somewhere, Van Morrison sang these songs. With them, he scored with an SIENED VAN MORRISON ASTRAL WEEKS "A unique and timeless album." - Rolling Stone audience who didn't expect half that much. Who's Van? Van was the generative force behind the celebrated English group THEM. And Van is the one who wrote "Gloria." And Van was the maker of "Brown-Eyed Girl." Yes, that Van Morrison. Last night, Van Morrison helped rock-and-roll grow a little more. Maybe not you, but last night some people got dressed, got in the car, paid some bucks for tickets, sat in some audience for two hours, missed Mayberry, RFD. All that to hear Van Morrison score. Now, thanks to miracle phonograph rec-ords. Van Morrison can score in the privacy of your own home. HOW YOU CAN SCORE Van Morrison is not for you if, in your opin-ion, Spanky And Our Gang are the heaviest. Van Morrison is for the some of you who like songmen who hit home runs, most every time. Eight home runs: Astral Weeks. With it, yu can hear Van Morrison score. Nightly.

Truly amazed by this 1969 print ad* in Rolling Stone for Van Morrison's ASTRAL WEEKS

*which I divided in half for readability's sake

They're not PUNK... They're not POP... They're not PRETTY... They're WEEZER

Well my goodness, there's no need for ad hominem attacks, cover blurb from Rolling Stone #704:

Cover of Rolling Stone with Liv Tyler kissing her father, Steven Tyler, on the cheek in a sexy outfit above the words FAMILY VALUES: LIV TYLER, A CHIP OFF THE OLD ROCK

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Rolling Stone cover excerpt: NEIL DIAMOND: "I need, I want, I care, I weep, I ache, I am, I said, I am, I said..." by Ben Fong-Torres

Wow. So true, bestie

Sting on the cover of Rolling Stone #403, September 1983 Cover blurb is "POLICE BRUTALITY: STING"

Sting timeline cleanse

Cover of Rolling Stone #322, a 1980 issue highlighting the stars of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. There is a photo of Billy Dee Williams, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, but Billy Dee is largely cut off and the text of the cover blurb doesn't mention him (while mentioning all the white actors)

Wow, Rolling Stone really did Billy Dee dirty here

Real talk: the cover shoulda just been him looking sexy??????

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Ah, the golden age of magazine advertising

You open this issue of Rolling Stone and are greeted by a really mean Nike ad that goes on for not one, not two, not four, but ~~SIX~~ PAGES

Followed by a true "graphic design is my passion" two-page ad for Philips electronics

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Rolling Stone asked a bunch of musicians what their favorite albums of 1998 were, and Steven Tyler's list is truly chaotic

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