{"id":38710,"date":"2022-09-04T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=38710"},"modified":"2022-09-04T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T16:37:08","slug":"i-wonder-what-valerie-perrine-is-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/09\/04\/i-wonder-what-valerie-perrine-is-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"I wonder what Valerie Perrine is up to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"March 1981\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/52329225501\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52329225501_d7c2435054_z.jpg?resize=483%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"March 1981\" width=\"483\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A buddy of mine has been haunting flea markets and online auctions looking to feed his unquenchable hunger for old comic books and magazines. He managed to score this issue of <em>Playgirl&#8217;s Games for Lovers<\/em> from March of 1981 as part of a lot of several mouldering mags from around the same era. Beyond the cover, there&#8217;s not much to recommend this particular publication. It&#8217;s a collection of puzzles, coloring book pages, throw-away articles and paper dolls all printed on cheap newsprint which has long since yellowed. It&#8217;s remarkable that somebody bought it and held on to it for forty-some years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A buddy of mine has been haunting flea markets and online auctions looking to feed his unquenchable hunger for old comic books and magazines. He managed to score this issue of Playgirl&#8217;s Games for Lovers from March of 1981 as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/09\/04\/i-wonder-what-valerie-perrine-is-up-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,120],"tags":[446,3517,5444,1344,5445,5443],"class_list":["post-38710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","tag-446","tag-clutter","tag-jenner","tag-magazine","tag-perrine","tag-playgirl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-a4m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37912,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/18\/duckwork\/","url_meta":{"origin":38710,"position":0},"title":"DUCKWORK","author":"Joe","date":"June 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the fall of 1981 when I was starting my freshman year at The Philadelphia College of Art, DUCKWORK was the school's quasi-official newspaper. 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The Photo Elective All students majoring in illustration at\u00a0The Philadelphia College of Art\u00a0were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images and make prints. 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Thanks to the Internet Archive which is probably the greatest site on the internet a number of odd, wonderful and rare publications are available for your perusal for FREE. There\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41217,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/08\/17\/with-the-comico-boys\/","url_meta":{"origin":38710,"position":5},"title":"With The Comico Boys","author":"Joe","date":"August 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Among the well worn stack of comics that I refer to as Barbershop Comics was an old issue of the X-Men that hit the stands late in 1981. There is nothing special about that particular issue, but the advertisement above for comic conventions caught my eye. 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