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Get Your Hankies Out

It's a Gilda Radner Tribute.
You know, I'm getting older and the importance of 'early detection' as they say- is starting to hit me. I wish Gilda was still here.

Issues with Comments

Some have reported issues with comments, like...not being able to leave them. I don't know, everything seems ok on this end. It could be an incompatibility problem, or a confict with your...um...medication. :)Try again!

Color Me Nutty

It wouldn't be the first time I've been colored nutty, but in this interview he reminded me of Brad Pitt. And one more thing...BOUDELAIRE!!!

This interview is from the year I was born.

How To Survive The Reagan Era...

(...without really trying?) Add one part Chomsky, one part punk, and blend together with one part stupid cheesy John Hughes Pretty In Pink movie (for us young ones) then dye your hair, paint your face, look at art, and dance your ass off to Bowie while Rambo blows every one's heads off. I'm still angry, does it show? Oh well...gets me to the church on time. That's Modern Love for ya. Bowie had been diamond dog, so androgynous, so all over the place, but NEVER had I seen him so manic and insane as he was busting out stomp tunes in a skinny-tie 80's suit and hair do. This is one of my favorite songs of all time. It's angry and awesome. Either you get it, or you don't.

Our Parents

Basically, these are our parents. We are not the generation raised by Ozzie and Harriet (I'm looking at you, Gerianne!)The Reagan Era was a total shock to me...I'm still not over it.

Best Movie Ever Made

Next to Star Wars A New Hope. Here's the Rainbow Connection Song.

Don't Drown Your Food

Nobody that I ask remembers this. I'm glad I found it. I LIVED by this after I saw it. I'm still affected by this theory today.

Yazoo-LRG How We Roll - Skateboard Montage Team

People in my generation and [a bit before] act like we invented skateboarding. I remember when it got "too popular" in the 80's and one of my punk friends declared that R.E.M had sold out because one of their videos had a skateboarder in it.

The reason I'm posting this is because of the YAZ music, Alison Moyet. Great music.
By the way, that last trick is a big heelflip, aka a 360 heelflip with a 180 varial.
Yeah. I don't care either.

LRG How We Roll - Skateboard Montage Team

So Sometimes I Sing

The theme to Wonder Woman, and someone always says..."there weren't words to the theme!...Those weren't the words!"

Ah, vindicated by You Tube..."in your satin tights- fightin for your rights...and the old red white and blue"

People insisted I was insane. "Stop a war with love!"

More re-runs

Yes, we were the re-run generation. This show, Dick Van Dyke, was awesome because all the actors had stage and radio comedy backround, there was such energy and talent.

This clip is funny because it's a gender issue. Actually, I agree with Dick.

What Generation?

So, where do I get off saying that this is from my generation? Well, the thing is that 70's kids were the TV generation. We had very few channels and choices, so I Love Lucy re-runs are actually a mark of our generation. Many of us know all these episodes, and this skit especially is one of the best ever.

Boy George Before George Lucas?!?

Sorry about the audio on this. Notice the Amidala dress WAY before Amidala. But seriously, this is from Chinese opera I'm pretty sure both Georges ripped off from Chinese opera.

Anyway, this was my generations' rock. Loved it.

Some Toys We Had

Good Times

Good Times, one of the many Norman Lear productions. Very good stuff. That opening song is classic.

Awesome clip...listen for the "took Isreal to lunch" line...OUCH!

The Jeffersons

This is funny. I wanted to post the intro, but this clip is funnier. The "n" word, too. It was the 70's

ZOOM

Kids show we used to watch.

From Zoom

Nice shirt...I used to dress like that. We watched this show and kids would pretend they understood, and I was like...I don't get it.

Mulligan Stew

We had to watch these filmstrips in school.

M Jackson's Hair On Fire

This actually happened. This is a dramatic re-creation of it, but it was this huge news story, another 80's icon, and part of the cola-wars, too.

News Story About New Coke 86

This was like shocking to us.

The Flinstones Selling Cigarettes

This is why good episodes of the Simpsons were written the way they were. My son is a Simpsons nut, so this is just for him...the story behind some "Laramie" ad campaigns.

Where's The Beef and other annoying commercial phrases that irritated me:

This was so annoying. I couldn't believe the fervor this unleashed with bumpersitckers, hats, t-shirts, and people saying it all the time and cracking up like it was the first time they heard it. I don't even think I laughed the first time. The 80's was like that...made me feel pretty alone. Ugh, that stupid Spuds Mackenzie dog for Budweiser...so dumb. Later on down the road...the Simpsons lampooned stuff like this and I let out a sigh of relief.

Rubicks

So there are some people out there that I call "Rubicks Cube Ronald Reagan Republicans" because they vote a certain way for no other reason than they are caught in a time warp, and they actually believed the RR hype. I was happy to see the cube featured on the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" that was a great movie. We were so amazed with this cube when it came out. Now the mysteries are unlocked.
Here's a guy that can do the cube blindfolded. We've come a long way baby.

I Dream Of Jeanie

This blog is not going to be all TV. I know I'm uploading a lot of this stuff that's readily available on cable in the U.S., this blog is actually directed at my soon to be 14 year old son, and we don't watch much tv and for the last two years have been in the Philippines.

Who Shot J.R.?

This was a huge deal. One time at work we had an 80's retro day and some kid showed up wearing a t-shirt that said "I Shot J.R.", I laughed and he told me he didn't know what it meant. Of course everyone knows that the next season Bobby woke up and it was all a dream because the writers didn't know how to write a real ending.

Luke and Laura Get Married

People skipped work to watch this, people didn't have VCR's then.

Tootie's and Natalie's Bongs

The Facts of Life first season intro is cool because Molly Ringwald is in it. The second clip is when Tootie and Natalie go buy bongs and the record store and think that they're jelly bean holders. I think my mom just cocked her head sideways and didn't comment much on this episode. Seeing this stuff on TV was all new to her.

The TV Gereration

That's what we're called. Here's a Welcome Back Kotter Montage.

The Match Game

I don't know what year this was. But when I was a kid, we had very few channels, and shows like this. Some were re-runs from the 60's and 50's some were new. So kids my age were schooled in a couple of decades of entertainment. This is from the 70's I'm pretty sure, and this particular clip is hilarious.

Jodie Foster 1974

Harry-O episode, Guardian at the Gates, featuring Jodie Foster as a child actor. Also shows Orwell's boat, The Answer. From 1974.

I was 3. Jodie always reminded me of me when I was a kid.

Old Star Wars Commercial

My Generation

I was born in 1971. Little did I know that technology would make my generation one of the last to have a huge gap with underlings. Our group remembers NO VCRS, NO MTV, let alone no MP3's. Sometimes I don't think that people even 10 years younger than me realize what a huge gap this is, and how different the world was when I was growing up.

Anyway...I'm collecting stuff. And here it is.