Tag Archives: 1970s

01/28/2020 · 1:28 pm

The Individual Must Die

Of course I was spoiled growing up. We didn’t just have The Muppet Show (and Fraggle Rock!) on TV- we knew the name of the man who brought the Muppets to life; Jim Henson. We even knew that the man who voiced “Miss Piggy”, Frank Oz, guest-starred in one of the biggest sequels of all time, as a little green alien called “Yoda”.

Oh, and that sequel? We all knew whose baby it was. George Lucas. His film-school buddy Steven Spielberg was the mastermind behind E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, and the classic-styled anthology show Amazing Stories. (Just to name a few.)

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Filed under Animation Analysis, Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Nostalgic Obsessions, Worst Of All

Tagged as 1970s, 2020, Bill Cosby, Bugs Bunny, cartoons, Chuck Jones, corporate crap, death, despair, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Fraggle Rock, Friz Freleng, George Lucas, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood, Jim Henson, Joe Pesci, Martin Scorsese, Matt Groening, Mel Blanc, Michael Maltese, Mike Judge, music, Phil Spector, political correctness, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Robert McKimson, Seth McFarlane, Sid and Marty Krofft, Steven Spielberg, The Muppet Show, The Simpsons, Wal-Mart, Walt Disney, whores

01/05/2020 · 5:01 pm

PS I ♥ U

You folks ever see the movie All That Jazz, with Ben Vereen, Jessica Lange and Roy Scheider? You oughta check it out, it’s great. And I’m not just saying that because it was one of the only ways you could see nudity on TV, as a kid of the 1980’s.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1979, 2020, 2020s, All That Jazz, baby boomers, Ben Vereen, Bob Fosse, breasts, Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding, Conan the Barbarian, dance, death, Everly Brothers, Generation X, hoverboard, Jessica Lange, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, millennials, PBS, religion, Roy Scheider, Sandahl Bergman, The Soft Moon, vaginas, vomit

12/27/2019 · 12:27 pm

Woke Zero

The Chisholm and Humphrey buttons are awfully familiar, but I just can’t place why…

Despite my general distaste for trendy buzzwords, “woke” never bugged me to the extent of, let’s say, “synergy”, or “logos”. (That’s “Logos“, not the plural word for “logo”.)

I can tell when a new word’s gonna go the distance, and when it’s gonna burn out. Want to know how I know?

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Tagged as 1960s, 1967, 1970s, 1971, 2019, bikers, Billy Jack, cancel culture, Delores Taylor, Elizabeth James, Jane Fonda, Pablo Picasso, SJWs, Social Justice Warriors, Tom Laughlin

12/22/2019 · 12:22 pm

It’s A Shame About Rey

I owe you good folks an apology, I really do. This is gonna take some serious swallowing of pride, but I have to admit where I was mistaken. Here goes nothing.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1977, 1980s, 2005, 2015, 2019, Atlanta, Bob Iger, despair, Disney, Hayden Christensen, Kathleen Kennedy, Michael Bay, movies, Orson Welles, Oscar Isaac, Peter Sellers, Rian Johnson, Star Trek, Star Wars, suicide

11/19/2019 · 11:19 am

Sitconned

I would like to take this opportunity to shoulder a bit of the blame hurled around in the current Battle of the Generations. Whatever my assigned generational designation might be (“X”), I know for certain one egregious sin that we all committed willfully, en masse.

We watched too much fucking TV.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Bill Cosby, Brian Benben, Denny Dillon, Dream On, Family Ties, Garbage Pail Kids, Natural Born Killers, Saturday morning cartoons, Saved By The Bell, sitcoms, television, Wendie Malick

11/07/2019 · 11:07 am

House Lights, Show’s Over

Maybe someday, in some perfect future utopia where I am long dead, the vaunted generation known as “millennials” will finally experience self-awareness. Maybe they will finally uncover the reason why they are so vehemently despised by literally everyone who came before them.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2019, Anton Furst, Caddyshack, Dick Tracy, Disney, Frank Zappa, Ghostbusters II, Hollywood, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorcese, Michael Keaton, millennials, Monty Python's Life Of Brian, Richard Sylbert, Star Wars, Steve Barron, Tim Burton, Time Bandits, Watership Down

02/22/2019 · 2:22 pm

Joan Jett

Our biggest problem as a culture is simple; we allow attitude to win every time.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1976, 1980s, 1981, 2012, 2019, Bands I Useta Like, cassettes, Cherie Currie, comedy, comic, depression, Jackie Fox, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, New Jersey, political correctness, punk rock, Sandy West, smoking, social media, Star Trek, strips, The Jerk, The Runaways

01/15/2019 · 4:24 pm

The Doors

The origins of the line “It’s better to burn out than fade away” are somewhat muddy. It’s another version of “Play it again, Sam”; the words we’re most familiar with are actually a variation, and not a quote verbatim.

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Tagged as 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1981, 1985, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, corporate crap, Def Leppard, Demi Moore, depression, despair, DEVO, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, Oui (magazine), political correctness, Ray Manzarek, Robby Kreiger, social media, suicide, The Doors, Vietnam, Wal-Mart

01/07/2019 · 4:40 pm

The Hollies

Alright before you say anything, this ain’t one of my favorites. It actually represents a lot of painful things for me personally. So just know that going in.