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Short Hair Magazine

There's apparently a magazine called Short Hair. I assume it's just a one-off?

Funny cover stories on Town and Country magazine

The cover stories on the February 2011 issue of Town and Country magazine:

-I wish I'd married rich

-What he really thinks about your plastic surgery

-The divorce of the year

-The top divorce lawyers

*Buy Divorce For Dummies at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Six Flags is ditching most of its branded rides as a cost-cutting move:

The new-new name will be "Apocalypse" and the coaster itself will stay pretty much the same. But where Six Flags takes one in the pants, is they spent upwards of $1 million on the Terminator-themed intro in the queue. It included several animatronic Terminators and a training video featuring two of the film's stars, Common and Moon Bloodgood.

Six Flags will now remove all the Terminator robots and re-shoot the sequence to match the new Apocalypse theme. The coaster will officially no longer be Terminator: Salvation and bear its new name as of January 8, 2011.

Via.

2. McBess posted a wallpaper-sized version of the (NSFW) illustration he created for the cover of Nobrow 4. (Copies are available at Amazon.)

3. Michael Douglas is either dying or well on his way to recovery depending on which gossip magazine you read.

*Buy McBess Dunnys at eBay.

Depressing Chris Ware cover for The New Yorker

Cover by Chris Ware for the "Money" issue of The New Yorker. Via.

*Buy Chris Ware comics at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. How to turn your Twitter stream in an RSS feed.

2. A New Zealand elementary school has been criticized for holding a possum throwing contest. Via.

3. Excellent collection of Las Vegas Weekly covers by Benjamin Purvis. Via.

Link roundup

1. Paul Robertson posted more of his terrific Scott Pilgrim animated gifs.

2. If The National Enquirer looked like George Lois's classic covers for Esquire. Via.

3. Morrissey has said some racist stuff.

*Buy Scott Pilgrim toys at eBay.

New Bioshock Infinite art (wow)

The October issue of Game Informer features three double-sided covers showing off the characters of Bioshock Infinite:

Instead of using our traditional layout, we worked with artists at Irraional Games to produce covers that showcase what a video game magazine might have looked like on Columbia in the early 1900s. With illustrations inspired by period publications like The Saturday Evening Post, all three covers also feature unique advertisement for products a citizen of Columbia might need.

I think they're all by Robb Waters. You can see some rough versions here. Via.

*Buy Bioshock posters at eBay.

Man on fire

Magazine cover via.

*Buy Japanese Graphics Now! at Amazon.

French Scarlett Johansson vs Spanish Scarlett Johansson

Interesting to see how Glamour modified the photo of Scarlett Johansson for the French and Spanish editions. Via.

*Previously: Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella.

*Buy Lost in Translation posters at eBay.

Best magazine covers 2009

A model says "It Must Be Somebody's Fault" for W and Madoff as the Joker for New York - - two of Time's picks for best magazine covers 2009. Yes, the list is spread across ten pages with pop-up ads.

Relatedly, here's a photo of the Joker interfering with a very serious protest:

Thanks, Robert.

*Previously: Best magazine covers 2008.

*Buy 100 Years of Magazine Covers at Amazon.

Halloween by Chris Ware (link roundup)

Ah, it's been too long since Chris Ware wiped the smile off my face. You can see the comic strip he created for the New Yorker here. Via the whole internet.

And a few more links:

1. Choose Your Own Adventure parody cover features a lot of great monsters.

2. Photos of the Spider-Man 3 3/4" figures.

3. This year's winner of the Nobel Prize for literature is someone you've never heard of.

*Previously: No one can bring me down quite like Chris Ware.

*Buy Acme Novelty Library collections at Amazon.

Super Mario as a ghost vinyl toy (link roundup)

Ghost Super Mario toy on sale for $20 at Play-Asia.

And a few more links:

1. Covers to the special Chip Kidd edition of Newsweek.

2. Yesterday, I mentioned the lawyer who wore ratty shoes as a trial strategy. Turns out, a reporter in Florida decided to write about it while the trial was ongoing despite the lawyers' pleas that he wait until after the trial. The reporter rejected their pleas. The jurors read the article and caused a mistrial. Nice work newspaper reporter guy. Via.

3. Giant and very slow-loading picture of the moon. Via.

4. For my local readers, two bank robberies on Ventura (Encino, Woodland Hills) on Friday between noon and one.

*Previously: Lego version of Melies' A Trip to the Moon.

*Buy Nintendo toys at eBay.

Corrupted Seventeen magazine cover (link roundup)

One of several modified Seventeen magazine covers by Carmen Burguess.

And a few more links:

1. Photos of the relatively lackluster vinyl toys for the monsters from the Where the Wild Things Are movie. (Lackluster because I presume they're going to be very expensive.)

2. How to download Hulu videos.

3. Looks like the New Orleans Saints fired their long snapper for involving his teammates and coaches in an investment scheme that cost them millions.

4. Vampire girl and her hulking vampire butler.

*Previously: Where the Wild Things Are paper toy.

*Buy Where the Wild Things Are toys at eBay.

Jim Rugg cover for the LA Weekly (link roundup)

The cover of this week's LA Weekly is by Jim Rugg.

And a few more links:

1. The Ashley Wood toys are really too expensive to have problems like this.

2. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus starring Deborah Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas. Stills of the monsters here. Via.

3. While exploring the site of The Asylum, makers of the Mega Shark movie, I found this giant nigiri.

4. Some people create custom Thing action figures. Other people create custom Thing televisions.

*Previously: Shark plane.

*Learn how to make sushi with these books at Amazon.

Girl with a rifle

This is the cover to the April 30th-May 6th issue of the Portland Mercury. The archive is full of great covers. Also, the current issue features this terrifying polar bear

as the illustration to a cautionary tale about the creatures. Via.

*Previously: Demon polar bear.

*Buy polar bear toys at eBay.

Spock Esquire cover

The mundane Esquire Star Trek cover

And the illustrated version by Noma Bar:

Relatedly, check out this work of genius caricature of George Bush, featuring one of the Abu Ghraib victims:

It's part of the book Guess Who:The Illustrations Of Noma Bar, which is currently 22% off at Amazon.

Via these fine sites.

*Previously: Queen Elizabeth as a Bond Girl.

*Buy Star Trek posters at eBay.

Laura Park's cover for Vice

Laura Park's cover for Vice. Via.

*Previously: The Book of Vice.

*Buy Miami Vice collectibles at eBay.

You too might drive off the roof of a building

This is the cover of the March 1948 issue of Popular Mechanics:

The text says, "This can happen to you." I did some investigating and discovered that it's an article about driving safety, which features this dubious claim, "Driving 30 miles per hour is as dangerous as driving on the roof of a high building!" You can see scans of the magazine here, including this curious juxtaposition of product, image, and text:

I mean, whenever someone molests my backside I instantly think about lubricating my engine. Via.

*Previously: Bizarre workplace safety website.

*Buy motor oil at Amazon.