Hello. And goodbye—but only briefly. We’re taking a little break, heading to a place called Tarifa. It’s not far, but after pondering ambitious ideas about going to Italy, Croatia, and Malta, we decided a short trip was best to get back into the swing of travel for pleasure. It’s been a couple of years (the move doesn’t count—that was back breaking, shin barking work). We don’t know much about Tarifa, just that a few friends like it. Will there be pulp there? Only the kind that comes in a mimosa, we’re betting, but you never know.
As we’ve noted before, Spain is one of the countries that actually did generate a fair amount of pulp style art, and it’s also a country where you occasionally stumble upon a used book store that has a lot of old crime novels. About the time the pulp craze was in full swing, Tarifa looked like what you see in the photo below. Even if there’s no pulp to be
found there these days, and despite it modernizing a bit from its quaint form of yesteryear, we expect to have (careful, socially distanced) fun. We’ll be back in four or five days. As usual we’re linking to a few posts for your enjoyment, and this time, for a change, they’re all books.
A picnic with a special treat.
The shortest car trip ever.
The unparallelled work of Giovanni Benvenuti: here and here.
It’s true, we like to make fun of sorority girls, as evidenced here, here, and here. Fraternity boys are also favorite targets, as we show here, here, and here.
A match made in pulp heaven: Robert McGinnis and Carter Brown.
In pulp, trouble is always just around the corner, as seen here, here, here, here, and here.
Here’s a bit of encouragement for job seekers.
And here are thoughts about cowboy fashion, what a real cowboy drinks, what a real cowboy eats, what’s a noble ending for a cowboy, whether a cowboy really needs a horse, and whether higher education makes him less of a real cowboy, or more.
Everybody sing along—you know the words.
Kozy books kome back from obscurity.
Knock down drag out fighting in mid-century art.
Marriage can be tough. Very tough. Even advanced beings sometimes have woman trouble.
A few fun French covers, here, here, here, and here.
And finally, proof here and here that the female of the species can be more deadly than the male.
