{"id":3008,"date":"2002-08-23T06:52:38","date_gmt":"2002-08-23T11:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2002-08-23T06:52:38","modified_gmt":"2002-08-23T11:52:38","slug":"potpourri_for_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/23\/potpourri_for_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for $200, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jess Nevins has a cool site on pulp heroes<\/a> of the first half of the 20th Century, including many links to other locations for the more popular figures.<\/p>\n

Keanu Reeves as John Constantine<\/a>? I don’t know if Constantine would laugh his bloody head off, or else exact a particularly gruesome (if ironic) revenge. Probably both.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there’s some significance that once upon a time, detergents touted how white <\/i>they made laundry. Then, for years, we learned how different detergents would protect all your vivid colors<\/i>. But twice over the last week, I’ve caught ads (one for Woolite, one for Cheer) about how their laundry soaps will protect your black <\/i>clothes, keeping them dark and, er, black. Is Goth finally in the mainstream? Or is it just that the geeky-black-t-shirt crowd (ahem) finally got into the ad agencies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jess Nevins has a cool site on pulp heroes of the first half of the 20th Century, including many links to other locations for the more popular figures. 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