The weather here in Bordeaux has been cold and wet the last couple of days, and the flat I am staying in isn’t much better. It’s tiny, damp, dusty, doesn’t have a television and half the room’s ceiling is less than 4 feet in height (it’s kinda like the office in Being John Malkovich). Other than guzzling pints of 1664 over games of pinball in the cafés or working on my French with local journalists, there really isn’t much to do.

To pass time in the evenings, I have been watching online movies and puttering around Flickr in search of visual amusement. Last night in the wee hours of the morning I came across this very awesome set of vintage comic book ads assembled by Neato Coolville. How I miss the days of mail-order ant farms, secret spy scopes and rifles.