George and Gracie got their start on the vaudeville stage, where they met performing in separate acts, and were eventually married. They ran a radio show all through the 30s and 40s, before eventually making the transition to television. Their TV show
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Basil Wolverton is perhaps best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine, but his grotesque, intricately detailed Comic Books from the early 1940s are among his best work. Space Hawk was the subject of many of those comics, he’s a typical, square
From Standard Ebooks: Right Ho, Jeeves is the second novel to feature P. G. Wodehouse’s popular Bertie Wooster and Jeeves characters. Bertie, a member of the English upper class and one of the “idle rich,” tries his best to arrange relationships between
Pepper & Carrot is a gorgeously illustrated web comic about a young witch and her cat, and their hijinx in a vaguely steampunk fantasy setting. It’s beautiful. It’s adorable. It’s CC-BY, and you should feel free to remix it. The comic just
Performance video from the Open Stage variety show, a Weekly show that ran from 2011-2015 by The Circus Freaks, a Dallas-based performing ensemble that creates unusual acts of theater and other forms of professional-grade whimsy. Think of it as DIY TV. It’s
A secret society of Women on the Moon! With Mind Control! It’s a decent movie. It is more earnest and less sleazy than the title would suggest. It is almost good enough to be considered good and almost chaste enough to be
Crazy Blues by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds. Recorded by Okeh records. This was the first successful blues record. This was the first successful record featuring a black vocalist. It was a runaway success, and launched Mamie Smith down a Huge