Prior to Photoshop, there was reality. [From here, via here.]
Tag: Retro & Vintage
Owen Godwin’s Contribution To The World
“Owen Godwin—Big Game Hunter, World Traveler, Author and Lecturer—with a walrus trophy taken while on an Arctic hunting trip with Eskimos. The walrus weighed over 3,000 pounds. Photographed at his GATORLAND ZOO between Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida on U.S. 17, 92 and 441.”
[Found here.]
Colonel Sanders – South of the Border
Strider’s got an awesome collection of crappy album covers, but he’s outdone himself. He’s got embedded audio for this gem, and one for the Michelin Man Record, both side by side on the same crappy post! Pure awesome.
Rubber City Record
[Found here. You catching this, Strider? Got a link to a recording?]
[Update: STRIDER SHOOTS — HE SCORES!]
Andy Boy’s Contribution To The World
Andy Boy was a major manufacturer of broccoli in the 1960s. Unfortunately one strain was inedible, so Mr. Boy, always the innovator, turned it into one of the most popular hairstyles ever.
Subsequently Andy re-engineered the vegetable and they have a booming business today.
[Disclaimer: This post is satire and is in no way intended to disparage or impugn The Andy Boy Company or its produce. All in fun. Image found here.]
PEZ’s Contribution To The World
These are reproductions of one of the rarest PEZ candy dispensers. I should know… I had one of the 1968 “Luv” originals, and it’s somewhere in the basement of a house in Ohio. It looks like this:
I don’t remember ever refilling it with the little brick-shaped candies, but I disassembled and reassembled it at least once when I was bored.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 150 – Fones, Farts & Fails
A Fun Day
Church Seats Are Go
Some of you may have noticed an improvement in the Tacky Raccoon HQ rec room restrooms recently. Yep, that’s right, the old cracked wooden butt-pinchers have been replaced with Church Seats. We’re going green, and the best part is that Church Seats will stay stunning.
Saturday Matinee – Giant Isopods, Claymation, The Swamp, Jolly Boys, Lady Day & Satchmo
Giant Isopods! Yay! [via]
Sure, it’s amateur Claymation, but it kept my attention for the pure and simple oddness of it all.
Talking Heads were one of the premier punk bands out of CBGB’s, even though the punk genre (gawd I hate that word “genre”) was coopted by others who trashed it and gave it a bad name in the late 70s.
The Jolly Boys sing Amy Winehouse’ “Rehab” [via]. I gotta find out more about these guys.
Let’s see. Got four videos up, and since five is ideal for subliminal reasons, let’s roll one more for the road.
Awesome combination of Lady Day and Satchmo. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll be back tomorrow.
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