Video of the Week: Honeyboy Slim and the Bad Habits

Today happens to be the birthday of one of my most favorite people in the whole wide world, Heather Drain. Besides being an amazing writer and critic of fringe culture, she is my number-one cohort in the Timothy Carey Estrogen Brigade. I dedicate today’s video, another one from the archives, t... Read full article

Bogie whistled and Slim went running: RIP Lauren Bacall.

Bogie whistled and Slim went running: RIP Lauren Bacall. Betty Joan Perske (aka Lauren Bacall), 1924 - 2014. I always said that when Lauren Bacall passed away, I'd lose my shit. Well, it's happened. The last of the great classic film legends has left us. Bacall passed away on August 12, 20... Read full article

South Dakota Slim Alert!

Turner Classic Movies seems to be in the middle of a beach party movie marathon today. They will be showing Bikini Beach (1964) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) very shortly, so get those DVRs fired up! You don’t want to miss a minute of South Dakota Slim and his antics. See you at the bubbie h... Read full article

So slim, so blonde, so lovely

It's three Carole Lombard photos in one as part of this rotogravure montage from 1933. (Actually, the term "rotogravure" is usually synonymous with newspapers; this sepia image measures 8.25" x 11.25", and I'm going to guess this came from a magazine.) The dominant photo was taken by Eugene Robert R... Read full article

Video of the Week: Honeyboy Slim & The Bad Habits

Now this be more like it! Our video for this week is Timothy’s wild Cajun dance from Bayou (1957), set to “Tule Ton Son Ton,” a classic Clifton Chenier tune performed here by the awesome Swedish R&B band Honeyboy Slim & The Bad Habits. This is exactly the kind of music that... Read full article