Mars Attacks
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Mars Attacks

Feb 8th 2013 by Baron von Swankenstein

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Readable In the middle of the twentieth century, fear and paranoia were ingrained into the subconscious of every American. The 1957 launch of the Sputnik satellite had Americans wary of Soviet attack from the skies. And the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 assured the world that Soviet Premier Khrushchev was serious in his threat when he said “We will bury you.” The spectre of mutually assured destruction was ingrained throughout much of American culture. In movie theaters, Soviet invasion of America was proxied in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956). And, in the real world, the Office of Civil Defense encouraged suburbanites to build their own backyard bomb shelters ( continue reading... )

The Cocktail Nation - Queens Of Vintage

Episode 266    May 12th 2013

This week we talk to the publisher of an online magazine called Queens Of Vintage, her name is Lena Weber and recently she interviewed me in her kings of vintage portion of the website so I thought we should have her on to talk vintage culture and the English scene. Plus the best exotica and lounge music from across the globe.

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Satan Magazine – A Devilish Magazine for Halloween
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Satan Magazine – A Devilish Magazine for Halloween

Oct 22nd 2012 by Baron von Swankenstein

Readable After Playboy magazine made its mark in the early 1950s, imitators of all kinds sprang up with titles like Sir, Knight, and Gent. In 1957, one publisher took a devilish bent and called its new magazine Satan. Satan was little more than a Playboy clone. Both magazines had pin-ups, articles on the urban bachelor lifestyle, a jokes page, and an iconic anthropomorphic mascot. But maybe they were on to something at Satan. As evidenced by films such as Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), the occult later captured the American and European imaginations in ( continue reading... )

Cult Vegas – The Weirdest! The Wildest! The Swingin’est Town On ...

Sep 4th 2012 by Baron von Swankenstein

Cult Vegas – The Weirdest! The Wildest! The Swingin’est Town On Earth
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Readable The Golden Age of Las Vegas has been over for quite some time. If you don’t count auxiliary members like Shirley MacLaine, Buddy Greco, or Angie Dickinson, the last member of The Rat Pack, Joey Bishop, passed away in 2007. He outlived Frank by 9, Dino by 12, Sammy by 17, and Peter by 23 years. Even the buildings, which are supposed to outlive those ( read more... )

Ray Bradbury Lives on Mars

Jun 11th 2012 by James Vaughan

Ray Bradbury Lives on Mars
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Readable The man and his wheelchair sat silhouetted against an endless vista of bright unblinking stars and twisting nebula. He was a very old man. Born in 1920. That made him one year into his ninth decade of life. Very old indeed he mused … except for the fact that he was already dead. Well, if this was Heaven it wasn’t half bad he thought. Sitting ( read more... )

The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook – Inside The Kitchens, Bars, and ...

Mar 25th 2012 by Baron von Swankenstein

The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook – Inside The Kitchens, Bars, and Restaurants of Mad Men
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Readable Paradigm shift. If you could boil down into a phrase what Mad Men is about, it would be “mid-century paradigm shift.” Mad Men explores it on the large scale: Clueless about how to sell coffee to young adults, the men of Sterling Cooper attempted to shoehorn the Port Huron Statement into their ad campaign. They completely missed the point because the cultural paradigm was changing. ( read more... )

When The Mob Ran Vegas

Jan 5th 2012 by Baron von Swankenstein

When The Mob Ran Vegas
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Readable On September 7, 1963, during a performance at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Dean Martin joked “Right now, ladies and gentlemen, somewhere backstage, Frank Sinatra is punching a dealer right in the mouth.” Little did Martin know that four years later, Sinatra actually would start a fight with a Sands pit boss over revoked casino credit — only, in the end, it ( read more... )