Dead Writers Cologne

Found on Etsy:

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A product of Sweet Tea Apothecary

The Dead Writers blend is now available in a perfume/cologne oil. This blend evokes the feeling of sitting in an old library chair paging through yellowed copies of Hemingway, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Poe, and more. The Dead Writers blend makes you want to put on a kettle of black tea and curl up with your favorite book. read article

TV Shows That Were Canceled After 1 Episode

Plus one that was canceled before the first episode finished airing!

EDITED BY LB TO ADD: TURN-ON, which was canceled in mid-appearance in 1969 must hold the record for shortest-lived series. Being an alte cocker, I was privileged to actually have seen the episode, and all I can say is I’ve seen worse – much worse – debuts for shows that went on for years. (In fact, some of my own shows come to mind.)

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Have You Visited “Unknown Archive TV”?

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We think you should.

What we have up above is a shot from the unaired pilot for the BBC’s SHERLOCK, which is up and at ’em at UnknownArchiveTV a site chock full of arcane, wonderful, wacky, bizarre TV shows, none of which are available anywhere else – or so we’re told; we didn’t spend all weekend looking for everything elsewhere cuz we were, you know, on our days off. read article

If Sailor Moon Fought the Hulk

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How many ’90s girls would’ve loved to see Sailor Moon kick the Hulk in the balls?

All of us, yeppers. read article

What? There’s a Bias Against New Ideas? Who’d a’thunk?

Um, actually, we woulda.

And now, so does David Burkus, in this talk from TED:

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