At the old blog, years ago, we were stunned by the story of an apparent gay Nazi doll collector — both the collector and the Nazi dolls (or at least some of them, anyway) were gay. Here’s a pic and some text from his craigslisting:
here’s Marius the SS officer and Fritz the panzer cadet.
they are gay.
a lot of people in the ‘action figure community’ are mean to me because some of my dolls are gay.
i have around 65 action figures, but only 5 or 6 are gay.
but meanwhile, the people in this hobby act like all my guys are gay.
they are mean to me.
Now, courtesy of “growing extreme right political sentiment in Ukraine” comes the perfect complement to Fritz and Marius — the Hitler doll:
An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine, with saleswomen comparing the doll to Barbie.
Supermarkets in the capital Kiev are stocking the 40 centimetre high figure of the fuhrer, complete with jackboots, leather trench-coat and swastika armband.
The £100 figure has a spare head “with a kind expression on it,” glasses and several changes of clothes.
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One saleswoman said: “It is like Barbie. Kids can undress fuhrer, pin on medals and there’s a spare head in the kit to give him a kinder expression on his face.
“He has glasses that are round, in the manner of pacifist Jon [sic] Lennon“.
Upon hearing of this clear link between Lennon and Hitler, liberal and fascist, Jonah Goldberg reportedly exclaimed “I knew it!” and burst the waistband on his stretch Dockers.
Sherry Britton, whose hour-glass figure, jet-black hair and rambunctious presence made her one of the queens of the burlesque stage in the 1930s and ’40s, died Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 89 and lived in Manhattan. She died of natural causes, her cousin Melaine Britton said.
Along with Lois de Fee, “Queen of the Glamazons,” Betty Rowland, known as the “Ball of Fire,” and Zorita, known for her sensuous snake dances, Ms. Britton was one of the last stars of a once-thriving sprinkling of theaters in Times Square (and other spots in Manhattan) where ostrich-feathered fans fell away to reveal sequined pasties, G-strings and sometimes more. Sometimes Ms. Britton — at 5 feet 3 inches tall with an 18-inch waist — peeled off chiffon evening gowns to the strains of Tchaikovsky; sometimes she balanced glasses of water on her breasts.
‘Your children are too fat. Either they lose weight or we’ll take them away’
A COUPLE have been told their children must lose weight – or they could be taken into care. Social workers warned the parents they have only three months to help three of their six children shed the pounds.
They want to see an improvement by June in the 12-year-old boy, who weighs 16 stone, and two of his sisters, aged 11 and three, who weigh 12st and 4st respectively.
The family, from Dundee, have been ordered to send their children to dance and football lessons to help them lose weight.
Another couple from the city are facing the same fate over concerns their only child is obese.
The development highlights Scotland’s childhood obesity crisis, which has already forced some as young as 13 to seek NHS weight-loss surgery. Only the United States has more overweight children, underlining fears that our current generation of youngsters may not outlive their parents.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD - For the new resident, the foreclosed three-bedroom house on Beck Avenue - complete with a remodeled kitchen, hardwood floors and a pool - must have been a dream come true.
The 1,600-square-foot home was listed for about $419,000 when the man moved in last month.
One problem: It wasn’t his. He was a squatter.
“He had the door barricaded. He had a mirror that was taken off the wall that he had propped up so he could keep an eye on the front door to see if anybody was coming in,” Realtor Steve Smallson said.
The man also lugged a bed into the home and snuck in and out through an out-of-view bathroom window, Smallson said.
According to court documents, Isenhour got upset when a red-shouldered hawk began making noise, forcing another take. He began hitting balls at the bird, then 300 yards away, but gave up.
Isenhour started again when the hawk moved within about 75 yards, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer Brian Baine indicated in a report.
Isenhour allegedly said “I’ll get him now,” and aimed for the hawk.
“About the sixth ball came very near the bird’s head, and [Isenhour] was very excited that it was so close,” Baine wrote.
A few shots later, witnesses said he hit the hawk. The bird, protected as a migratory species, fell to the ground bleeding from both nostrils.
NEW YORK - Gunmen hijacked a FedEx delivery truck loaded with Christmas presents early Friday on a Manhattan street, officials said.
The truck was headed to a company facility in Newark after midnight when two men brandishing a gun confronted the driver at a traffic light, police said. The driver was forced out of the truck and into a car. He was found about four hours earlier in Brooklyn, police said.
