Category: Retro & Vintage

Yep. Even your dad’s buddies were jerks.

[Found here.]

Yep. A couple of hours, a lot of stupid

[Original image from here. Crossposted here.]

MCE



[Found here and here.]

Hey, Mr. Spaceman

“Flash Bazbo, Space Explorer, reporting for duty, SIR!”
With a space helmet like that, those would be the first words out of my mouth, right before I was sent to the Outer Realms on a mission to explore and conquer The Planet of the Mind Gobblers.

[Found here.]

Edmund and Ulysses de Moulin’s Contribution to The World

From Futility Closet:

In 1900, evidently tired of initiating pledges by hand, Edmund and Ulysses de Moulin decided to automate the process.With their “initiating device,” the applicant is blindfolded, placed in position, and told to pull the handles to test his strength. When he does so, the paddle spanks him and an electric shock passes through his arms, “making the sensation rather unique.”

Saturday Matinee – Billy Joel, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, Booker T & The M.G.’s

All of Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits. Just like they were meant to be.

The Temptations’ 1970 hit “Ball of Confusion” has one of the best lines ever: “Vote For Me and I’ll Set You Free.” [via SADM].

According to Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles, the top artists of 1970 were Neil Diamond and Aretha Franklin. Let’s go with some Aretha:

Aretha Franklin is an American classic. Here she is backed up by King Curtis.

Here’s King Curtis & The Kingpins. The description attached to this vid from the Utoobage: “The only band that could make Booker T & The M.G.’s sweat.”

Proof that Booker T & the MGs didn’t sweat. With that, have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow.

Subsubmarine

Yep. That’ll work. And no, I’m not mocking him in the least because he’s got one and I don’t. Meanwhile, I’ll man the shore battery.

[Found here.]

[Updated image with link to appropriate soundtrack.]

Holiday Hot Links

Awesomely creepy holiday photos… here.

Kim Jong-Il looking at things [via Presurfer].

Mobile movie theater is solar powered.

Ultimate Hot Wheels.

Do NOT taunt the boxing bag.

Curtis Got Slapped – Forty Pages of Demands For Reparations. Awesome.

Print all your documents with a coffee stain watermark.

Spider threatens itself, drives itself away [via].

Look Again

Prior to Photoshop, there was reality. [From here, via here.]

Saturday Matinee – Doodling With Some Zees

Doodling in Math Class is an awesome series with great commentary. (There are more here, here and here.) I did a lot of n-pointed star studies and other similar graphics, but teh Utoobage hadn’t been invented yet to record the brilliance.

One of the great modern animators, Bruno Bozzetto has done it again.

What the heck, here’s another Bozzetto classic.  Now how do I transition from Bozzetto to a music video? …got it.

Bozzetto to Bozzio. Double zees. Which takes us to you-know-who:

1980’s vintage ZZ Top. Now we’re gonna take away one more Z…

Zappa’s “Bamboozled By Love/Owner of a Lonely Heart.”

And with that, have a great weekend folks and be back here tomorrow for more fun.