My Best Blog Buddy Forever, Mr. Dante Fontana, is back on the job at PCL after a long hiatus, and submits this gem of Seventies self-improvementiana from the Livejournal Vintage Ads community. I can't wait to order this and release my "inner good looks", since Lord knows I don't have much in the way of "outer good looks" to release...
[Link: The Looking Good System]
Hanford Lemoore exacts his horrible revenge on Dr. Tiki (from Tiki Bar TV) at Forbidden Island in Alameda with this extremely clever prank involving the house jukebox.
Until today, I had been hitherto unawares of the phenomenon known as "Rickrolling". Suffice it to say that it involves Rick Astley, which should be enough to give any right-thinking person an unpleasant clenching sensation in the depths of their bowels.
[Link: How I Rickrolled Dr. Tiki]
Iowahawk's satire is right on the money with this comic-book ad parody aimed at the Yale Art School student who artificially inseminated herself multiple times, then induced miscarriages in order to "encourage discussion" of abortion.
As a former art student, I can't tell you how tedious (and typically batshit insane) the attention-junkies behind these sorts of political "art" statements can be, as well as the professors who encourage them. All I wanted to do was learn how to paint, draw, and illustrate. Instead, I got 3 years of forced indoctrination. UItimately, I had to transfer to a tech college and get an electronics degree in order to clear my brain.
[Link: Close Cover Before Striking]
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]
Be grateful I didn't post the clip of Carol Channing doing a striptease.
[Link: Jackie Gleason Trips on LSD]
Mike Nesmith's Television Parts Home Companion shares the remarkable account of one man's heroic attempt to prove that the ancient Hawaiians could've crossed the Pacific in a Polynesian restaurant and sailed to America's western shores.
More video ex-Monkeeshines here [Link].
[Link: Voyage of the Kona Tiki][via TC]
John Candy and the rest of the SCTV crew mock a certain little fictional redheaded Swedish girl.
[Link: Pepi Longsocks]