Is there any way to turn computer-generated art into black velvet paintings? Because that would be awesome.
Can you still buy Hypercolor T-shirts? Because sometimes I need to highlight my sweaty patches.
This is true for other teen movies as well. I think the main dude in Revenge of the Nerds commits a rape in the movie. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
That pic is a doozy. Thank you. Although I’m disappointed just a bit to see no Elvises, it’s not too surprising as the target demographic for that T-shirt (I think) art is mostly little kids.
Without even looking at the “art”, the shack, the raggedy air conditioner with the unpainted 1x6 board across the top, the rotting fascia boards, unsupported corners, corrugated sheet metal roof, and all the rest tells quite a tale of squalor and degradation. And that’s the front of their store.
'Murrica. Land of the low-rent.
Here are a couple of close-ups cropped and deskewed from the original 50 MP photo. Note especially the hands. And that’s what they used for advertising.
Not good work, not at all. I guess when the “slow children playing” grow up to be “slow men working” in the arts, this is what you get. They’re better than I can do for sure, but then again I’ve never tried.
Looking at how many of the shirts contain pictures of licensed characters, I do wonder how much they’re paying in royalties to Disney, Marvel, and all the rest of the copyright holders. Spongebob Piratepants more like.
First link in “here are”, second in “a couple”. The color of the text should change after you click on a link. (And the girl is Elsa from Frozen.)
(Eta given the edit, looks like you figured that out while I was replying.)
Kraft Pizza is one of my favorite foods, and has been since I was a kid. I have no idea why, but something about it just tastes right to me. If you offered me a choice between takeout pizza and Kraft Pizza, I’d take the Kraft every time.
Maybe the Kraft company modified our brains when we were young, because I also still love Kraft Dinner. Just straight, no weiners or any of that nonsense.
When I was a kid, I used to love a dish my mom called ‘supsyl’. It was basically milk/cream in a bowl, with pepper, salt, onion added, and thennbits of bun you’d soak in it and eat. I tried making it for my wife a few years ago, and she said it was gross. I tried it, and it was gross.
I found out that it was basically peasant food. Poor farmers still have milk and homemade bread, so they invented a dish out of it. I thought it was a treat.
As for cartoons, I hated the 80’s cartoons in the 80’s. I was a born a little earlier, and I thought the cartoons I grew up with in the 70’s were far superior. The Bugs Bunny /Roadrunner hour was a staple of Saturday morning. Also the Pink Panther (original, not the baby one), Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, Tom and Jerry, Touche’ Turtle, Lippy the Lion, underdog, and the non-cartoon “Hilarious House of Frightenstein” with Vincent Price and Billy Van.
Some of those Hanna-Barbara ones don’t really hold up well, but they are still generally watchable at least as nostalgia. And Loony Tunes is still great. The originals, not the ‘kid friendly’ baby Looney Tunes that came along later.
Even as a teenager I was annoyed by the 80’s trend of making all the previous cartoon characters babies. We had Muppet Babies, baby Looney tunes, etc. Gah.
I didn’t know you could still buy shelf-stable pizza in Canada. Admittedly it has been many years since I have had it, but I can’t imagine it is better than almost any other option. Maybe when camping, but you still gotta cook it…
I liked Hilarious House growing up, but again have not seen it in many decades. I agree with you about cartoons, though thought there was some merit to Pinky and the Brain and Inspector Gadget (although could not say precisely when these aired).
When I was a kid attending the Saturday matinee at my local bijou, my candy of choice was a box of Red Devils. I never ate anything else. They were little roundish things, bright red, with a tart cinnamon flavor. They were hard as rocks. No wonder I have so many fillings. I don’t know if they’re still made, but I would never try to eat them now.
Yes, there is something about the make-your-own-pizza from a kit. It reminds me of when we were kids and allowed to stay up to watch ‘The Creature Feature’ late at night. Some C-list old black and white sci-fi thing, or Godzilla - again - we would usually fall asleep after the awful pizza, and popcorn…Before my husband died a few years ago, we would throw a grocery store bottom-of-the-barrel frozen pizza in to eat later while watching ‘Svengoolie’ and so on…I’m going to do that later tonight!
The show has a web site, and there are several free episodes on it if you want to refresh your memory:
I loved “The Professor”, Dr. Julius Sumner Miller, who was a real physicist. And “The Wolfman”, a parody of Wolfman Jack, played top notch music (featured song in the first episode on that web site: The Doors’ ‘Love Me Two Times’). This was clearly long before the suits decided that children could only relate to other children and babies and child things, and stripped all the grownup content out of cartoons and kid’s shows in general.
Yeah! Speaking of old Sci-Fi, a show that scared me when I was little was called “Island of Terror”, a british horror film starring Peter Cushing. It had these monsters that I called ‘bone-sucking turtles’ that made a horrible scraping sound as they moved. It turns out this was a pretty bad movie, and the ‘scraping sounds’ were the actual sounds of the prop monster being dragged across the floor by a stage hand. They just left it in.
Now the movie is looked on as camp horror like the Hammer films (which I also loved). I used to get copies of ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’, and they sold 8mm loops of those old movies for four or five bucks each (just a few m8nutes, not the whole movie) and a projector for them, which was $29.99. I could not even remotely afford it, but used to dream of having such a thing and being able to watch horror movies at home.
Now as an adult I realized that those films were all low-budget schlock-fests with questionable special effects. But as a 12 year old, they were amazing.
I was extremely young when I watched this. My brother was a huge fan of the show. It aired in Ontario at some ridiculous time - I think 5am or 6am. So maybe even back then they didn’t want anyone to actually see it. My brother used to like it enough to get up that early and wake me up too. 
Who was the last modern equivalent of Supe? He had a schlock film show, *Supe’s On *, which showed very bad horror (Ssssssssss), Godzilla films and the like.
In the book 1632 a West Virginia town that has been thrown back in time is attacked by a large company of raiders. Said raiders get chewed up and spit out bu the Virginians, but one woman is injured when a black velvet portrait of Elvis is knocked off the wall and strikes her on the head. A down timer, from the period they have arrived in, asks “What saint is this?”
Jujubes for me. Hard, and they get stuck between your teeth,
No, i’m telling you it’s a fact, both the quality (and quantity) has noticeably declined.
Stew meat isn’t exactly the best cut of beef, but that’s why it is less expensive, long simmering makes it tender, right? I enjoy a good (homecooked) stew as much as a steak, more or less.
Except now they don’t even include stew meat in a lot of these canned offerings any longer.
The invention of “Meat glue” specifically means yet even less expensive ingredients - floor sweepings and other portions that were wasted are used. Hormel Chili - the “New and Improved!” way back in 1997, was that there was no longer a layer of congealed fat when the can was opened.
Fat may be unsightly when opening a can, but fat contributes greatly to flavor, as well as food value - calories.
Oh yeah, those too. They were my favorite candy outside the movie theater. Did you ever put the box in the freezer? When you bit down on them they would shatter like glass and were crunchy. Dentists loved them. Oh my aching teeth!
I read that in Darth Vader’s voice.
Lol! 
I generally went the other way on '80s music. I remember as a kid people telling me that disco or easy listening music or fluffy pop music sucked, so I believed them. Nowadays, I don’t care what anyone else says – if I think a song is catchy, I enjoy it. Plus, even the cheesiest '80s music holds some nostalgia value for me.