Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo

About Fabrizio del Wrongo

Recovering liberal arts major. Unrepentant movie nut. Aspiring boozehound.

Betty Boop Shorts

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: And to think folks in the ’60s thought they were being wild and trippy . . . Related Now available on DVD from Olive Films. See here and here. I wrote a bit about popular surrealism … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Movies, Sex | Tagged animation, Betty Boop, Bimbo, cartoons, Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer, Surrealism | 4 Comments

Girl Guitar Songs

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

Posted in Music | Tagged All Girl Summer Fun Band, Nikki and the Corvettes, Shonen Knife, The Donnas | Leave a comment

Nine Years of Alya

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: One of the interesting upshots of internet nude modeling is the ability to follow particular models from youth (18 or 19) through to the end of their careers, which tend to occur in the models’ early … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Sex, The Good Life | Tagged Alya, erotica, Hegre-Art, I wish they all could be Ukrainian girls, MetArt, nude photography, Petter Hegre, Porn, pornography, Ukraine | 6 Comments

Linkage

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Is secondhand smoke really as bad, health-wise, as it’s made out to be? New York City moves to ban the use of e-cigarettes in public places because it sends the message that smoking is socially acceptable. … Continue reading →

Posted in Linkathons | Tagged AIDS, Alison Brie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Confederacy, George W. Bush, global warming, heartiste, Joseph Stalin, Oliver Cromwell, Otis Ferguson, Robert E. Lee, Ronald Reagan, smoking | 3 Comments

Three Erotic Tarzans

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912): To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves. From the description which Clayton and her father and Mr. Philander had given her, she knew that … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Books Publishing and Writing, Movies, Sex | Tagged books, Edgar Rice Burroughs, erotica, Film, Frank Frazetta, Game, MGM, movies, Pulp, Tarzan, Tarzan and His Mate, Tarzan of the Apes | 4 Comments

RIP Billy Jack

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I saw that Tom Laughlin died the other day. He was mostly known for playing Billy Jack in a series of films, the most famous being the first two: the 1967 “The Born Losers” and the 1971 “Billy Jack.” You … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged 1960s, Billy Jack, Delores Costello, Elizabeth James, Film, movies, The Born Losers, Tom Laughlin, westerns | 1 Comment

Bill Burr

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I’ve been watching a lot of stand-up comedy on Netflix Instant of late. It’s one of those cultural side streets I hadn’t been paying much attention to. Of the performers I’ve sampled, Bill Burr is one … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Performers, Sex | Tagged Bill Burr, domestic violence, hitting women, mothers, stand-up comedy | 19 Comments

“Untamed”

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Released in 1957, “Untamed” is an episodic account of a woman’s semi-voluntary trudge towards independence, one that uses the Westernization of Japan as its backdrop. (It’s set during the Taisho period of the early 20th century.) Hideko Takamine — … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged Film, Hideko Takamine, Japan, Mikio Naruse, movies, Taisho Era, Untamed | 1 Comment

To Him Who Meets Eighteen, They Seem Enemies Enough

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Each one singly is called man; ‘t is twain if they are two; three are a thorp; four are a group; a band is five men; if there are six, it is a squad; seven complete … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Demographics | Tagged Iceland, Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson, Vikings | 1 Comment

1920s Motivational Posters

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Related More information. And more. I scavenged most of these images from auction sites like this one. You can probably get hi-res versions by paying them a visit. Maybe bid on a motivational poster as well.