This one 'barks' for itself, dawg! Christmas Countdown Day 2
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I may have previously shared this "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" story about Mel Tormé. It good enough to share again. (By the way , Mel was 19 years old when he co-wrote the classic tune). Click on image below to read story. Mark Evanier is an...
Because every young person rockets into Christmas in a space suit holding a USSR flag! Christmas Countdown Day 4
Merry Christmas from Mr. French, Uncle Bill, Jody, Sissy and Buffy! (Hey, where is Mrs Beasley?) Christmas Countdown Day 5
"Jingle, jangle, coins when they jingle make such a lovely sound.” - Mr Quincy Magoo as Ebeneezer Scrooge. Ahhh, those haunting words from Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol. Byers will never let me forget them. Christmas Countdown Day 7
Giant Life-Sized Santa Stands Almost 6 Feet Tall! Christmas Countdown Day 7
Christmas time gatherings re-establish the bad side of genetics Christmas Countdown Day 8
From the usual gang of idiots. Christmas Countdown Day 9
"The Gift That Keeps On Sucking" Sure, give your wife a vacuum for Christmas and see how long you stay married. I'd give it until Groundhog Day, max. Nothing like giving a gift that says, "Christmas Sucks!" Christmas Countdown Day 10
From the Old German custom, prior to Christmas, the celebration of Schweinemas Christmas Countdown Day 11
Cartoonist R.O. Blechman did this Christmas illustration for a greeting card. It was later the inspiration for the animated CBS Television Network 1966 Christmas "greeting". Click on the image below to view the video. Blechman also did the award winning Alka Seltzer commercial in 1967 showing a man and his...
Christmas Countdown Day 13
In years' past, we've posted cartoons from one of The Wheezer Society's favorite cartoonists, Gahan Wilson. Here's another Christmas-themed gem. Christmas Countdown - Day 14
Today we have a moving image treat. Santa Claus' Punch and Judy from 1948. "Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party." Politically incorrect? Absolutely, you bet! More hilarity - notice the Achive.org keywords: Santa; puppet chaos; senseless violence Chri
WOW!…. look what we got for Christmas. Sparkling SPACELINERS… with glitter to match the light in their eyes and joy in their hearts. From The 1966 Sears Christmas Catalog For a larger image look here Christmas Countdown - Day 16
National Lampoon, 1970: This December 1970 cover of the National Lampoon is a classic, with fighter planes from an unidentified Asian Communist country (North Vietnam? North Korea?) shooting down poor Santa as they yell “Eat death, bloated lackey of the capitalist toy mongers!” Christmas Countdown - Day 17
Mmmm-mm Good! Forget that turkey. Keep it real with Spam, baby! Christmas Countdown - Day 18
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from The Swedes! Christmas Countdown - Day 19
Six Million Dollar Man - Christmas Adventures (1978) Christmas-themed adventures, published by Peter Pan, appeared in 1978. These records were smaller than their non-holiday-themed counterparts, published in a 7" vinyl format. The stories were a mixture of reasonably plausible espionage adventures that just happened to
Flashback
The children of Joe Amicarella believe our father was mentioned by legendary ex-Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, in Tom Brokaw's excellent 1998 book "The Greatest Generation," a collection of interviews and stories about ordinary/extraordinary Americans who came of age during World War II. Brokaw devoted a chap
"You're never gonna do it without the Fez on." - Steely Dan
A couple of weeks ago, PDX Retro ran a post about the Signal Gas Station on the corner of Charleston & Lombard in St John's. It's now a pizza joint. My grandparent's home for 34 years was just South of the gas station, on the corner of Charleston & Ivanhoe....
From the canvas of Steve Lindstedt, More Tsunami Debris Off The Oregon Coast