by Blogbot
Agonizing Love is a beautifully put together compendium of strips culled from the lost genre of romance comics. According to the volume’s curator and author, Michael Barson, an avid fan of retro-pop culture and a collector of all manner of flotsam and jetsam from days past, the first examples of the form were published in 1947. At the genre’s height, there were close to 150 different romance comics in print, with titles such as Lovelorn, Romantic Marriage, Lovers’ Lane, Bride’s Secrets, Boy Meets Girl, Heart Throbs, and Love Confessions. However, as the romance of the 1950s gave way to the pervasive climate of free love in the ’60s and ’70s, their popularity waned. The end of an era came with the final 126th edition of Young Love in 1977.
Last week we posted a typical strip from Young Love, entitled “How To Increase Your Dateability,” which offered female readers – who were ever fearful of being left on the shelf – tips on how to up their popularity quotient in order to increase their chances of finding a mate. This week, we have a simple 12 question personality test from issue #2 of Boy Meets Girl (originally published in April 1950), which will tell you if you’re likely to be a bride or – horror of horrors – an old maid.
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by Jay Hathaway
“People love heroes. Nerd heroes.”
– MC Frontalot
MC Frontalot first coined the phrase nerdcore hip-hop in the late ’90s to describe tracks laid down over homemade beats, featuring lyrics about everything from Star Wars to Nigerian e-mail scams. This year, hes been on tour with a full band in support of his second full-length album, Secrets from the Future. While on the road, he was the subject of a documentary film, also entitled Nerdcore Rising.
SG had the chance to talk with MC Frontalot about the life of a professional rapper and the growing buzz around nerdcore hip-hop.
Read our exclusive interview with MC Frontalot on SuicideGirls.com.
Rainbow Suicide in Sunspots
- INTO: Green tea, chai tea, any other type of tea you could throw my way, music, hugs, Wicca, pain, cuddling, bright colors, boys, looking at girls, System of a Down, rainbows, getting bitten and biting, the gorgon Medusa, Mohawks, men with tattoos and piercings, Chuck Taylor’s, five hour daily talks with Adam, the uncanny valley, Crispy’s recaps and translations, the taste of envelope glue, back rubs, wearing jeans with no undies, lollypops, bluntness, sleeping naked, AIM, exclamation marks!!!, bubblegum and claw machines, going to see live shows, Johnny’s restaurant, surprises, my Viagra pens, getting things in the mail, musicals, toast with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, candles and incense, fan artsies, children, Pee-wee Herman, video games, snakes and other scaly things, nudity, photographs/photography, Tourette’s syndrome, hair pulling, math and programming, wrestling in high school, correct grammar and punctuation, playing tennis, being obnoxious, and tacky jewelry.
- NOT INTO: Tommy the green Power Ranger, ignorant people, diets, fat people who wear clothes that are too small, complainers, women’s attitudes today, makeup, girly girls, being bladder shy, the sound of sex, bad Chinese food, feet, jealousy, waking up before noon, apple sauce, people who play the sympathy card, kids having kids, headaches, rap and country music, bright lights, soda, impatient IMers, people who can’t sing but think they can, crazy stalker people, mustard, paper cuts, poorly done tattoos, and your mom.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Rainbows, Columbus, Vinton County, Rusty reading to me, musicals, my itty bitty group of friends, watching people break bones, homo milk, Tsutar’s art, sleeping naked, my Xbox LIVE friends, the sound of scissors cutting construction paper, sitting at home and cuddling up with someone, watching local shows, my bed, sunshine, sunshine on my bed, Artemidoris being in Columbus with me, Rubik’s Cubes, my Chuck collection, my Rebel, my life!!!
- MAKES ME SAD: Chillicothe, bad music, bright lights, annoying sounds, trees being marked for cutting, assholes on Xbox LIVE, losing my puppy dog, snow and ice, winter, septum ring infections, my big bed being so big and empty.
- HOBBIES: Downloading DOS games, wasting time, singing obnoxiously, buying things off the internet, drawing, solving Rubik’s Cubes, wasting more time.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Music, love, tea, ganja and video games. :]
- VICES: Junk food and the monthly soda beverage I consume. Oh and possibly venti, iced, skinny, caramel Macchiatos from Starbucks.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Playing ’round on the web, doin’ art, dancing around in my undies, pwnin’ newbies on CoD, making various arts and crafts, playing around with my canine and feline pals, watching TV, and various other things.
Get to know Rainbow better over at SuicideGirls.com!
