Glyph Jockey posted a complete (and very large) scan of the November/December, 1981 issue of Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing & Beyond Beyond, an essential document for those who want a snapshot of the early L.A. New/No Wave art and music scene. Great advertisements, and the dueling interviews with John Lydon of PiL and David Lee Roth of Van Halen are priceless. Oddly enough, they both come off as smart, rational people...makes you wonder why they feel compelled to act like complete asshats in public. Some NSFW images, but nobody's working today anyway, right? [Link]

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Swanky just posted scans of an amazing fold-out menu and naughty embossed matchbooks from Harry "Sugie" Sugarman's Tropics, a restaurant and cocktail lounge that saw its heyday back in 1930s Hollywood. Check out the priceless list of celebrity cocktails like the Untamed, "One drink, and you're tighter -- than Lana Turner's sweater." [Link]

Meanwhile, Mimi over at Arkiva Tropika keeps posting gems like this promotional table card/brochure from the Hilton Hawaiian Village. I just can't get enough of that clean-lined, mid-century graphics design. [Link]

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I'm alive and still in England through this weekend. Here are a few highlights of what I've been up to museum-wise in the past week or so:

Power & Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific at the British Museum [Link]

Sixties Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum [Link]

Graphic Designer, Alan Fletcher, at the Design Museum [Link]

Back to work. More later. - Mr. BH

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