Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

Pete Seeger
1919-2014

FACELIFT!

Isn't the new header cool?  I just have had a smile on my face ever since good friend and fellow blogger (and all-around mensch) Doug Prinzivalli of dougsploitation sent it to me.  He did it just because he is like that; surprising a girl on a Saturday afternoon with his handiwork and giving me and my blog a much-needed shot of vitality in the process.

Muchas gracias, mi amigo.  I love it.

Grasshopper: Michelle Phillips

Michelle Phillips

1966

"Got A Feelin'" is one of the many songs inspired by Michelle.  This song was penned by her husband, John, about her affair with Denny Doherty.  It is one of my favorites because it is one of my Mom's favorites, and it features Michelle's delicate, lyrical soprano prominently.

Vintage Boobage

Jerry Hall makes a Nip Slip in June, 1976.

Photograph by Francesco Scavullo.

It's hard to believe, but this actually graced newsstands across the United States without any sort of paper wrapping. How prudish we have become. It's quite a change...and not for the better.

And the diaphragm is back in town! I hear it went backpacking in Europe for a while, but ran out of money when it smoked up all of its funds in Amsterdam. Diaphragm had to call Masters and Johnson for plane fare home, and boy, were they ever pissed!

Currently Occupying My Time

Retronaut

Seriously, folks...this is the coolest website I have ever seen. -Laura Beth

From 1976: Beautiful Bebe Buell

Some pictures just scream "The Seventies" without any captioning necessary.

Cameron Crowe used Bebe Buell as a source of inspiration for his genius film Almost Famous. When you look at the second photograph, is there really any doubt as to why?

From 1991: Tonya Harding Lands The Triple Axel In Competition

The first U.S. woman to do so, and it must be said, it was a MASSIVE triple axel. Tonya always had wonderfully high, fast jumps.

God bless you, Tonya. You always have mad props and the utmost respect from me.



Let's have another look at that triple axel, this time in 1992.



Massive. Look at the screen capture...the HEIGHT that chick got up from the ice, and her body perfectly straight up and down.

From 1958: What My Alternate Universe Looks Like

This film introduces Boeing 707 jet service on Pan American World Airways.



I long to live in this more civilized world; certainly I was born several decades too late.

On that note, allow me to tell you that I admire the spacious "powder rooms" on this jet the most. Remind to tell you guys sometime about the time Ken and I flew home from Singapore via Tokyo and Minneapolis, 21+ hours of flight time, as I suffered from a raging case of the stomach flu. I started feeling ill in Changi Airport and it all went downhill from there. Even though we were in First Class on all three flights home, it was still miserable.

A Touch Of Tuesday Weld: The Official Online Home of Shane and Debbie Klingensmith

This is for rollerfink, who reminded me recently of the obvious awesomeness that is Klingensmith.

Seriously, I kid a bit here, but Debbie Klingensmith is actually touching in her devotion to her son and his, um, talent.

"He can also do it with an English ock-sent."

From Bravo's greatest program ever, Showbiz Moms and Dads.

From 1979: The Only Way This Clip Could Have Been Rendered More Awesome Was If There Was A Cameo By Ponch And Jon

See, that's why The Seventies were awesome. Truckers were cool, they openly smoked Kimo Sabe in their cabs, on any given day you might have run into Cher on roller skates wearing zebra print skintight leotards, cops and bikers were friends, and gorgeous drag queens channeling Lady Day could be found at truck stops.

This was the theme song to the 1979 epic, Roller Boogie.

This Week At A Touch Of Tuesday Weld: Taking Things Back To 1977. Just Because.

Just because it's one of my favorite years to blog about, and judging from what you guys like to read on this site, you knuckleheads love 1977 as much as I do! (A helluva lot!)

Have some "Night Fever," from one of the greatest albums ever released, the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.







Super Amazing Laura Linger Fun Fact: "Night Fever" is the ring tone on my cell phone. The actual song. It's pretty cool, actually.

From 1979: And Then You Run Across Something So Awesome, Even I Am Rendered Speechless.

It's a home movie!

It's an official PSA film for the California Highway Patrol! (That's right, where Ponch and John worked!)

It's...I have no words for how this incarnates everything I love about Vintage.

In a word, it's awesome.

(And I think we have a rumaki sighting, folks! Pardon me, I have to go take a couple of belts of somethingorother to come down from the high this clip gives me.)

From 1982: A Clip Full Of Awesome From The Valley Of The Sun

Phoenix, Arizona. random super 8 movies shot by 15 yr old Timothy Ralston. Some starring 9 yr old Andrew Ralston. 5301 E. Fellars Drive, Scottsdale. Circa 1982. Contains: Driving to Phoenix airport from near Paradise Valley Mall. N. 52 St. Lots of Benny Hill type sped up Shenanigans. The song is "Twilight" from the album "Time" by Electric Light Orchestra.

Laura's Note: my favorite YouTube video of all time. Enjoy.

From 1981: The Greatest Tribute Of All Time To Saint Joan Of Crawford

The movie is from 1981, this remix is from 2009.

Both are sent from Heaven itself.

From 1988: The Most Fucking Brilliant And Horribly Underrated Band Of All Time

My favorite song from my favorite band ever. Best live band I have ever seen. And a bunch of really incredibly nice guys, to boot.

Fantastic breakup song. Suitable for laying in your bed in the dark, playing this over and over on the tape deck (being brokenhearted took considerably more effort back in the 80s!), smoking Marlboro Reds, and sobbing about How It All Went So Wrong.

From 1988's landmark Green Thoughts LP,
this is "Drown In My Own Tears."

Vintage Sick Rooms: Ah, To Have Been Ill In The Olden Days

It's actually a bit of gallows humor, here...I am very sick. I have a pretty serious lung infection. The thing is, I didn't even realize it. I went to the doctor this morning about my sinuses and an expedient x-ray exposed the real problem. A cough had been bugging me for a while now, but I didn't think it was anything so...drastic.

I'm on bedrest until Saturday and swallowing antibiotics like mad. If the infection isn't cleared up by next week, I have to go in the hospital until it clears. Yes, it's that bad. I cannot stress this enough, folks: I had no idea that I was this sick.

Anyway, back to the vintage.

Oh, to have been sick back in the more elegant days of 23 Skiddoo and pole sitting! Doctors really knew how to hook their patients up back then. Now, I have a prescription bottle of codeine cough medicine sitting on my vanity table that is the only good thing out of this whole business of the Streptococcus Pneumoniae Construction Company building little paramecia condos in my lungs. But did you catch the bit about Cosadein syrup having a Healthy Helping of the sweet, sweet leaf? Can you imagine how delightful a spoonful of that viscous delicacy must have been? Forget the scientific name of Cosedein. They should have just called it what it actually was: Heaven's Nectar.

Also, in modern medicine, I was given just an itty-bitty bottle of the codeine syrup. Addictions must be prevented, after all, although you still see a new episode of Intervention every week. I digress. Did I read that right...Cosadein was served up in GALLON jugs for cough-suppressing enjoyment? Pardon me while I ponder how wonderful life would be if I could carry around my own gallon jug of codeine goodness with me at all times. I would even deck it out like Granny did for her hooch on The Beverly Hillbillies, with the "XXX" on the front, instead of the label. People in the olden days got it right. Cough bothering you? Take a healthy swig from your gallon flask of codeine mixed with ganja. You might still cough, but you no longer mind, and suddenly you feel more charitable toward your mother-in-law.

We Are The Mods

The Style Council

"Shout To The Top"

1985