The Roosevelt Hotel is a pretty cool spot, they’ve got multiple bars and it doesn’t get too packed. Being built in 1926, it’s also steeped in history. For Los Angeles standards 1926 is ancient. The first ever Academy Awards was held here and Marylin Monroe lived here for a while as well. Movies that were… Continue reading The Roosevelt Hotel
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Jumbo’s Clown Room
It’s probably the best Clown Room in Los Angeles, definitely the best Clown Room in Thai Town. The best way to describe this Hollywood Institution is Burlesque Suicide Girls doing Cirque du Soleil style acrobatics on a stripper pole to music that ranges from Bowie to Rage Against the Machine. The girls pick their music… Continue reading Jumbo’s Clown Room
Drink Like A Character: Gin Rickey, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice. Gatsby took up his drink.“They certainly look cool,” he said, with visible tension. We drank in long, greedy swallows.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Entirely out of context, doesn’t that just sound like peer pressure to you? If you changed it up and… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: Gin Rickey, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Drink Like A Character: The Vesper Martini – James Bond (1953)
“Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?”– James Bond, Casino Royale (1953) Unfortunately you can’t make a proper Vesper Martini because they don’t make Kina Lillet anymore. You’d have to settle for… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: The Vesper Martini – James Bond (1953)
The art of Mad Men, a moving McGinnis painting
OK, we love Mad Men. It’s a classic TV show with very rich, well written characters set in a time period that we at American Pulps are very much into. I can’t say much about the show that hasn’t already been said. It’s been off the air for three years now and it’s been picked… Continue reading The art of Mad Men, a moving McGinnis painting
WELCOME TO AMERICAN PULPS
Dear Reader, To those who have been with us since the beginning, thank you. To those who are just now finding out about us, welcome. As of today, July 4th 2018 Shit Show Pulps will now be American Pulps and the name change is just the beginning. We’ve got an animated film coming your way and… Continue reading WELCOME TO AMERICAN PULPS