Hope You Had A Cool Yule

Me, I'm plum tuckered out from making the Yuletide gay!

We had a really splendid holiday, lots of lovely presents (I got a Kitchen Aid stand mixer!  A cashmere pashmina!  A bottle of Samsara perfume!), gallons of libations, and a Christmas dinner of all-you-can-eat crab legs at our favorite local Chinese buffet.

I hope you all had a beautiful Christmas, if that's what you celebrate.  May it have been as much fun as this:

1977

I love this picture.  It's from this blog, and I find it so wonderful.

Wait a second...Santa Claus, NO!

Three More Delicacies From The Joys Of Jello, 1963

If I showed this to my sister, Jane, she would look at me and say one thing: "Grandma Mary."

Yes, our paternal grandmother loved to make all matter of cold salads involving fruit-flavored Jell-O (she liked lime the best), canned fruits and vegetables suspended, like bewildered flies in honey, in the gelatin. Each plate of the salad was always served with a dollop of mayonnaise, which she would serve with a flourish that never left a chip on her Revlon's Love That Red fingernails (the woman always had a flawless manicure), or disturbed the ash on her ever-present Pall Mall.

Then she would sit down at the dinner table, take a sip from her Manhattan, and say, "I have been seated, so you all may begin."

From 1977: Smoke Cigarettes, Get Free Disco Dress!

Double-click for the smoky goodness.

Who is Leo Narducci?

Some of his other Disco Designs

Two For Tuesday: T Is For Taste, T Is For Throat, T Is For Tracheotomy

Because Junior, Fresh From The Uterus, Really CAN Discern What Brand Of Cigarette Makes For Dad's Most Satisfying Smoke

You have to LOVE 1940s advertising.  

Better living...through tobacco products!  It's the American way!