Walter Brennan talks to your children about sex

 

Why even bother to sit down and explain the birds and the bees to your teenagers.  In the HiFi LP, Old Shep, played by the avuncular Walter Brennan, discusses the things that your teen shouldn't have to come to you for answers. 

Side One

1. Imma Gonna Tell You Some Things
2. Boys and Girls Got to Climb Different Mountains
   
3. Once It Starts There's No Stoppin' What the Good Lord Has Planned For You
4. One Day You Won't Think That They Gots the Cooties
5. Some Girls Are Like That
6. Some Guys Are Like That, Too
7. No One Likes A Show-Off
8. He's a Little Bit Funny

Side Two

1. All Girls Need to Know About Noah and The Great Flood
2. Well, Sure It Feels Nice; But It'll Make You Mother Cry If She Finds Out
3. You Need to Be Ladies and Gentleman with One and Other
4. There's a Reason Dewey Ain't Welcome Back Home
5. There's a Reason Why Daisy Went to Capitol City
6. Y'all Need to take Baths More Frequently 
7.  If You Get The Urge, DON'T
   
8. After Your Married Is When Ta Do It

Aqua Sculptured Pile, 1966

1964, New York: In the store, her fingers danced over the pile, the rich sculptured pile. And the color was that of the sea on the atoll near Fiji.  Did she dare spend the money?  Would Billy Baldwin strike her from his little black book?  Would Lars see the beauty, or return to Oslo and forget her.  She looked at the salesman.  "Send your measures to this address tomorrow. Helga will be making lutefisk for five-hundred.  She's let you in.  And make sure it's this color.  I want it to be this shade. If it isn't this shade, the installer will have to eat the lutefisk."

2010, New York: The Realtor walks through the empty Manhattan Duplex, barking orders to the Daughter and Son as to how Realtor will sell the apartment.  "Every room painted gray.  Go to McGill's and tell them to paint the rooms and woodwork Light Ennui Gray. It is neither too bright nor too dark -mirthless - buyers aren't put off by the color.  I want everything to blend together.  And this carpet. It is a shame it is like new. Burn it. Destroy it as it did her to the very marrow of her soul." 

1980, Oslo, Norway: The Father explains to his son and daughter why he left: "Your mother could only love one thing, and that was the carpet."

Nitpickers Weekly, 1929

"Because you care..."

Nitpickers Weekly existed for that very reason.  And it's readership would say "and we care too much, at that."

In this issue, Mrs. Caroline Heenan, of Philipsburg, New York writes "I told my daughter, Peaches Browning not to marry that "Daddy" man because he kept a goose in his sleeping chamber.  Did she listen to me? No!"

Monthly columns included "Do Something with Your Hair", "Just Look At Your Nails", "You Call That A Meal", "If You Only Worked Harder", and "Pay Attention to Your Children".

There was a break in the opinion of the editorial board, causing two malcontent editors who were tired of having their advice ignored.  The founded, Needling Magazine in the summer of 1929.  It survived the Wall Street Crash by converting to a craft periodical.

Nitpickers Weekly ceased publication by the end of 1929, a victim of the Wall Street Panic. Evidently not enough husband's heeded their wives constant, unending advice not to invest in Atwater Kent Radios, the Moon Automobile Company, and Amalgamated Rubber and Tire. And it was either the magazine in her hands or an apple for dinner.

The apple won.

Gideon's Strumpet

Detective Gideon Strong is a man who attracts the wrong kinds of women when he isn't looking for trouble.  In Gideon's Strumpet, he finds Mayo Montez, a hardscrabble woman with a soft boiled heart, trying to sleep her way out of the gutter up to a middle-class house in a better end of town.  And maybe into a Colonial or even a Dutch Colonial with a cabana and an in-ground pool.  "What's a girl like you driving an Oldsmobile sedan?" Gideon wonders. When he find a copy of the latest issue of Town and Country Magazine in the maid's room, he knows that every dog has its day, and every dame has a bone to pick with her master.  All this and more will be revealed when things come to a head at midnight, New Year's Eve.   

Traveling Salesman Magazine, April 1946

Every month, Traveling Salesman Magazine brought to its readers a sense that they had a friend in an office in Iowa who cared about them and their life out on the road.  Since its readership traveled, subscriptions weren't allowed, and the magazine didn't ship C.O.D.   You paid cash at your Statnard Oil station or bought it in the Grayhound station.  Brush salesmen, vacuum salesmen, even bible salesmen all needed some companionship that didn't involve a local yokel's man-hungry daughter.  Their hotels may be flea-infested, and Old Lady Smith is happy to see the seed salesman show up with her latest "Burpy" Seed Catalog, with its promises of tropical splendor for Maine, but a guy works hard, even if his name is Willie Loman.  Pick up a copy and hit the road.

Idiom is an Ugly Word

"'Mercy Maude, Moe.  Will you just let it drop?"  But Moe D'Yard couldn't let it go. "I hear she's a regular bunnyboiler."  And Moe was like a terrier on a bone, but that was neither here nor there.   Behind his back, his friends all said "Jesus Christ on a cracker, but Moe better snap out it before he loses that job and corner office at Smear Magazine."  And it was true.  The new owner, Monica Mayhew had the Herculean task of turn that boat around.  And Moe D'Yard was the best in show to get the job done. Could he do the job and Monica at the same time, or was the baby out with the bathwater, for both of them and the once-monthly rag that had them by the tits.  From the pen of Roburt LeSabre, author of the shocking GABRIEL'S STRUMPET comes a tale that is so ripe it's about to fall of the tree of great books of the 1940s.  Only PROBE PUBLICATIONS dares to print today's stories that need to be told in ink."

1959: Father What A Waste

"The story of Father Chance McCoy was one that only Channing Carlton could bring to life."

"Father Chance, taking on his first assignment, a French Canadian mill town of Avecmoi was eager to help. Yet those confessing sin held back, and most of the congregation seemed to be probing his soul instead of finding comfort in his sermons.   At first, he feels the lack of acceptance is because of his youth, but the whispers of the grandmothers who called him "Father What A Waste" left him spiritually enervated.  Though he did his best to overcome these remarks, he knew that the wives of town came to him for a type of comfort he was unprepared to deliver. Their husbands looked at him with resentment and distrust.  Yet there were only two who understood those unspoken needs that left him aching for acceptance, the art teacher, and the lacrosse coach in the town's public school. Their time together, the turgid hours of understanding and fulfillment, lips in discourse about Descarte and scrums. Could the "pretty boy priest" save himself from the unspoken lust others had for him, or would he become a fallen angel himself?"

Easy Access, 1970 something

Found in stores where proper people don't shop, Easy Access was a periodical for men who had no time to unbutton while leading the carefree Alan Carr lifestyle of free-flowing clothing and cabanas.

Advertised as "all color", words were used economically and formed into disconnected cutlines which quoted Walt Whitman.

In any event, your older brother Bruce wants it returned to its hiding place, although he's too polite to ask.