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Don't wait! [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Don't wait! [Los Angeles Reader, Aug 9, 1996]
Honest, moral, non-religious. [New Times Los Angeles, Oct 3, 1996]
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Honest, moral, non-religious. [New Times Los Angeles, Oct 3, 1996]
Bluesky is great — the best! — but you can follow me on other platforms too.
Classified History
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November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Bluesky is great — the best! — but you can follow me on other platforms too.
His editing career didn't go far, apparently
Dashiell Hammett: Criticism of Prose Fiction
Before he made it big as a writer of hardboiled detective stories, Dashiell Hammett tried to make a buck (per thousand words) editing the work of others. This ad appeared in Writer's Digest in 1924.…
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November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
His editing career didn't go far, apparently
Did this woman ever find her swishy straight man? [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996 & Oct 3, 1996]
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Did this woman ever find her swishy straight man? [New Times Los Angeles, Sept 12, 1996 & Oct 3, 1996]
Insert some kind of quip about Ryan Lizza, Olivia Nuzzi and Keith Olbermann here [Pittsburgh City Paper, June 17, 2009]
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Insert some kind of quip about Ryan Lizza, Olivia Nuzzi and Keith Olbermann here [Pittsburgh City Paper, June 17, 2009]
Ginger Baker was the drummer of Cream. He was known for long, meandering solos. Bruce Springsteen didn't want that. He wanted an accompanist, and he found Max Weinberg. [The Village Voice, Aug 8, 1974]
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Ginger Baker was the drummer of Cream. He was known for long, meandering solos. Bruce Springsteen didn't want that. He wanted an accompanist, and he found Max Weinberg. [The Village Voice, Aug 8, 1974]
No drugs. No games. [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
No drugs. No games. [New Times Los Angeles, Aug 22, 1996]
They used to just print magazines like this. Every week.
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
They used to just print magazines like this. Every week.
I too am turned on by ads [Swingers World Magazine ,1973]
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I too am turned on by ads [Swingers World Magazine ,1973]
Davy Jones was the first musician picked for the Monkees. He was super cute, so that was an easy decision. To help find the other members, the producers placed ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter in September 1965.
The Monkees classified ad
Davy Jones was the first musician picked for the Monkees. He was super cute, so that was an easy decision. To help find the other members, the producers placed ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood…
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October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Davy Jones was the first musician picked for the Monkees. He was super cute, so that was an easy decision. To help find the other members, the producers placed ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter in September 1965.
Diane Keaton was a great actress. Perhaps this wasn’t her most famous scene, but it was a defining role, and it included a reference to the Personals column on the New York Review of Books.
October 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Diane Keaton was a great actress. Perhaps this wasn’t her most famous scene, but it was a defining role, and it included a reference to the Personals column on the New York Review of Books.
Did Monkey ever find a rich old lady? [The San Francisco Oracle, 1968]
October 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Did Monkey ever find a rich old lady? [The San Francisco Oracle, 1968]
These commercials were all over TV in the 1980s. [The Advocate, May 9, 1989]
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
These commercials were all over TV in the 1980s. [The Advocate, May 9, 1989]
"Personals" was a 1972 film featuring interviews with people who placed ads in adult publications. The film also included reenactments of what happened after the interviewees met up with strangers from those ads.
Armand Weston interviews the people behind personal ads
Directed by Armand Weston, PERSONALS was a 1972 film featuring interviews with people who placed personal ads in adult publications. The film also included reenactments of what happened after the…
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October 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Personals" was a 1972 film featuring interviews with people who placed ads in adult publications. The film also included reenactments of what happened after the interviewees met up with strangers from those ads.
“Callipygian” is New York Review of Books for “great ass” [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]
September 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“Callipygian” is New York Review of Books for “great ass” [The New York Review of Books, Feb 9, 1978]
Long lasting relationship [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]
September 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Long lasting relationship [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]
Sancho paid the bills
One of the bummers of losing real deal newspapers is that you'll be reading an article about territorial disputes and just below that you'll find a classified in search of a lost cat named Sancho.
September 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Sancho paid the bills
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One of the bummers of losing real deal newspapers is that you'll be reading an article about territorial disputes and just below that you'll find a classified in search of a lost cat named Sancho.
September 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
One of the bummers of losing real deal newspapers is that you'll be reading an article about territorial disputes and just below that you'll find a classified in search of a lost cat named Sancho.
Bro is a rose is a rose is a rose [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Bro is a rose is a rose is a rose [The New York Review of Books, Dec 7, 1978]
Really hard to narrow down who might’ve placed this ad.
Robert Redford RIP
The Village Voice, Jan 2, 1978. #robertredford
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September 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Really hard to narrow down who might’ve placed this ad.