Misty watercolored Youtubes....

[captainsblog]

Sorry to drop the Streisand bomb on yas so early, but I've been bombarded with references that are just reawakening a minefield of memories from the 70s.

First was this, courtesy of kouredios, a collection of fake band t-shirts for historical personages.

You know, like this-

   or her apparent favorite,

That was all I needed to bring this old line back into my head:

Simone de Beauvoir’s got your number, Slim. 

It was from a pre-post-feminist discussion among some kids in the Walden Commune day care sandbox, back in a 70s Doonesbury strip. I couldn't find the actual comic online (it's in my anthology and I'll ETA it later)-



- but Googling it reminded me of something I'd utterly forgotten.

There was a Doonesbury animated movie. Just one, made for TV in the 70s by a husband-wife team of animators who did a lot of freaky-funky stuff back then. And there are bootleg DVDs of it, plus hopes of a genuine issue. I've Netflixed the request for now, and we'll see how it goes.

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Next was someone posting this Gawker story about an office worker going all Alice B. Toklas on her colleagues and getting them high on her brownies.

Somehow, these brain cells from the 70s also survived, and I remembered an entire Barney Miller episode where this was the main plot:

Watch on YouTube

Needless to say, after sharing the story with Eleanor, I've been walking around all morning going, "mooshie mooshie."

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Finally, an old HS friend posted this retrospective of famed guitarists playing and (except for the original) covering "Here Comes the Sun." I replied that, 30-plus years later, the one version of that song which is perhaps the most burned-beyond-recognition into my brain was that done by Eric Idle on a very early NBC Saturday Night episode. (The joke was that he was trying to claim the $3,000 offer Lorne Michaels had put out to host a Beatles reunion on the show.) There's also a Youtube of this version, but it's the one from the end of the episode, with the whole cast hanging around behind him:

Watch on YouTube

I loved it for the humor. Then I went back and focused on Belushi in the "stuff" shirt, mugging for the camera and probably stoned out of his mind, next to Gilda, just looking sweet. I miss you guys. Mooshie mooshie.

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[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I just can't help thinking that Laraine Newman looks like the living dead every time I see her. Someone tie that lady down and give her a cheeseburger.