Sunday, September 27, 2015

Oddity Archive: now I'll be up all night

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Late night will never be the same. Having chopped my way through all 107 videos of the Commercials for Defunct Products playlist, I ...

I no longer detest Bolero thanks to these guys!

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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Who's that boy?

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Nice little slide show of Harold with Hal Roach. Notice how he barely resembles his screen persona. He was seldom recognized, which...

Stages of grief: you can't handle the truth

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Studebaker Gold Hawk

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Friday, September 25, 2015

The 1951 DuMont Teleset

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One of the most gorgeous features of the treasure trove of old ads I just discovered on YouTube is a whole series of ads for the DuMont...

Gifsforum: where art thou?

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This is one of the best film leaders I've giffed in a long time But I'm still not satisfied with it. Want to know WHY?? B...

Defunct and loving it

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When I find a YouTube playlist called Commercials for Defunct Products I'm thrilled, but when I find out that this is a trove of 1...

Pream or cream?

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WANT MORE? Here you go! http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews_pream...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

How you live is how you die

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Yes, selfies and shark attacks can kill. But what we really fear is old age Suzanne Moore As we seek to prolong our lives, we shut old ...

Muslims are the Jews of 2015

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If you've followed this blog at all, you'll see that I'm almost apolitical. I stick to popular culture, strange social t...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Down the tube: the first luxury TVs

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Why am I sitting here in a state of ecstasy? you may ask. Because it takes so little to make me happy. From somewhere, s...