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This screencap from an unnamed film has had me, and a bunch of other folks in the Name That Film Flickr Pool, chuckling and cracking "corny" puns all week.
As my sainted mother always says, "They just don't make 'em like that anymore."
[Uploaded by noh_thing, seen here photographing himself in the mirror of the men's room at Forbidden Island]
Jass420punk presents the classic 1977 guide to New Wave couture, How to Look Punk, created by illustrious fashion maven, Marliz, in conjunction with L.A. punk in-crowders, Jenny Lens, Helen Killer, and Pleasant Puss. It's chockablock with helpful fashion tips that show you how to use chains, wrist-wraps, neck thongs, and garbage bags to look "punk pretty"...just like your favorite punk-rock superstars, including the loverly Alice "Douche" Bag, and the dreamy Bobby Pyn!
It also helpfully explains exactly how to "pogo":
"...the Pogo is a highly energized dance form, a theatrical and emotional reflection of today's society. Frenzied movements tell a story of confrontations and frustration....The Pogo is composed of an alternation of moving and holding stances, freestyle, move and hold, move and hold, and on and on."
Whew. All these years I thought it was just jumping up and down in one place. Who knew that it was such an art form?
[Link: How to Look Punk]
[Link: Men's magazine ads from the '60s]
It's About Time was a '60s television comedy I would've rather left in a pile of forgotten memories from my youth, but Classic Television Showbiz yanked it out of my subconscious, and embedded its ear-wormy theme song in my brain. Now, I feel as if I must pollute the minds of my collective readership as well (it's only fair that you all suffer with me).
IAT had an incredibly thin premise: 2 astronauts stranded in time with a bunch of cavemen who talk like this:
"What Gronk say?"
"Him say, 'If Gronk become chief, nobody hunt sabertooth tiger."
As you can imagine, a half-hour of this is about 29 1/2 minutes too much. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to watch a couple of episodes due to the talented cast who were caught slumming in this Sherwood Schwartz steamer: Bob Denver, Joe E. Ross, and Imogene Coca, among others.
[Link: It's About Time]