Category Archive: Culture

Is There a Hell?

Pointy-tailed devils with pitchforks. Naked souls writhing in a lake of fire. The acrid smell of brimstone. (What is Brimstone anyway?) These are the familiar and iconographic images of Hell with which most… Read More

Hobo Signs

What you see here are hobo signs. (Click for a bigger view) Travelers today use cell phones, but during the Great Depression tramps, hobos, and even migrating familes used signs like these to… Read More

Bunker Spreckels

Taschen the world’s coolest publishing house recently released a new coffee table book about Bunker Spreckels, the one time hottie surf champ and errant stepson of Clark Gable. The book Surfing’s Divine Prince… Read More

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