At some point during the 1964 film The Last Man on Earth, Vincent Price, who portrays a character by the name of Dr. Robert Morgan, has to leave his fortress of a home, and head into the city in order to restock his vampire repellant supplies. [A virus has swept across the word, killing everyone, […]
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Has there ever been a mirror store on the planet earth?
Posted in History, Pop Culture, Retail, Uncategorized Also tagged 1964, American Studies, bats, garlic, mirrors, plague, Retail, Robert Morgan, Sears Roebuck & Company, Spatula City, The Last Man on Earth, vampires, zombies 55 Comments
Getting ready for Valentine’s Day by talking butt plugs and hot anal lube with Ann Arbor’s Safety Girl
MARK: Let’s start at the beginning… Back in the mid to late ‘90s, you had a show on Ann Arbor’s Community Television Network (CTN) where you’d talk about sex, answer viewer questions, demonstrate various toys, and the like. How’d that show come about? TANYA: The show was called Get Curious with Safety Girl, and it […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, sex Also tagged 50 Shades of Grey, 9/11, adult toys, anal lube, anal play, Ann Arbor, Arrowood, Bob Berkowitz, Bongz And Thongz, bussing, Butch Curious, butt plugs, censorship, clits, community access, Community Television Network, condoms, CTN, Dan Savage, Depot Town, female maskers, fetishes, Frenchie's, Geoffrey Fieger, Get Curious with Safety Girl, high school dropout, In Search of The Lord’s Way, Jiffy Lube, kink level one, kink level ten, Laura Abraham, Liberty Street, Liberty Street Video, lingerie, oral sex, pegging, polyamorous, porn, prostate massage, safe sex, safer sex, Safety Girl, sex, sex therapist, sex toys, Sidetrack, single mom, Suzanne Somers, Tanya Brown, Tanya Veilleux, Valentine's Day, vulvas, weddings, welfare, Ypsi Girl 14 Comments
Iggy Pop on the happiest days of his life, spent discovering music and working at Discount Records
Iggy Pop, as some of you may know, is the honorary ambassador of Record Store Day this year. And, as such, he’s been pontificating these past few days on the importance of recorded music, visionary artists and independent retailers, in the run-up to the April 21 event. In a recent videotaped address to the nation, […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, History, Local Business Also tagged Bentley Historical Library, Blues, consumerism, corporate co-opting, Discount Records, Elvis, Elvis impersonator, Iggy Pop, independent record stores, Jeep Holland, music history, music industry, Record Store Day, soulless music 27 Comments