Play It Straight

The whitest musical family you'll ever hear.

"Finish" the "Job"

Um, what's the guy reaching for in his overalls in this old ad?

The Slowest Slide Ever Made

Browsing through old films I saw this PSA for high blood pressure. Maybe that's why the slide is so slow and safe. Don't wanna pop a blood vessel from all the excitement of a normal slide.

Little Debbie's Bra

Ace

What a great laugh he has.

Devo + Neil Young

What the? I still love Devo, but have gotten sick of Neil Young in the last few years. I think it was mainly because our old guitarist was a big fan, and I noticed a similarity in their guitar playing skills. The Live Rust concert is still one of my favorites, but I just can't listen to Neil any more.

Smoke a Pipe

I miss pipe-smoking. I wish it was still a thing to do.

Toynappers

What, they were planning on eating the toys?

Cecil & Beany

I thought it was called Cecil & Beany, but this says it's Time for Beany. Here's a bunch of photos from the show. Note the naked ladies drawn on the back of the set in the top photo.

Occupy Jobs

Saw this on Facebook. Take that, you smelly hippy losers.

Dummies

I hate it when people don't think. The family next door has a nanny (beats off–loading them to day care I guess). The nanny doesn't park in their driveway (which is large enough to hold 4 cars), nor does she park in front of their house. Instead, she parks right in front of our mailboxes. So every fucking day the mailman has to stop, shut off the engine, unbuckle, get out, walk 8', deliver the mail, take a picture of the car to document the reason he had to get out of his truck (I asked him about that once), get back in, buckle up, start it up, and continue on his way. I assume it wastes more fuel to restart the engine than it does to idle for 15 seconds. Then we come home in the afternoon and have to do pretty much the same thing, rather than just driving right up to the mailbox. I don't know why the USPS can't issue parking tickets to idiots who constantly park in stupid places.

Quadraphonic!

Shit! Electrophonic made some pretty crappy stuff compared to others (although the Electrophonic receiver w/8–track and turntable my brother handed down to me when I was a kid lasted for quite a while), but damn, they had some groovy design ideas. Check out this quad system from 1974.

Torpedoes

We need the old days back. Ya know, when men had secretaries and secretaries wore bullet bras and short skirts. This is from Ironside, season 1, episode 30, 1968. Click to make them bigger.

Alice Cooper Has Gone to Hell

I was a bit excited when I saw that Alice Cooper released Welcome 2 My Nightmare this year. Then I read that Kesha was on one track (What Baby Wants). Autotune is used heavily on that one and another (I Am Made of You). Nothing hurts the ears more than autotune. Oh, Vincent, what have you done? Bob Ezrin produced it. You'd think he wouldn't've done that to Alice. allmusic.com says that Patterson Hood (Drive-by Truckers) plays guitar on the album, but credits him as a composer. Even that doesn't excuse the user of Kesha and autotune.

Crunchy Bass

I got Kim a MarkBass Distorsore pedal for her birthday. It can make some far out sounds, from a little bit of vintage overdrive to full–on crunchy fuzz. With knobs for tube drive, low pass, high pass, and clean/distortion mix, the possibilities are endless. She thought it'd be cool on a few songs. It's about time she started messing with sounds.