Mustache Crayons {Etsy}

Mustache crayons {chase dreams}

$5.50 for a set of five

Football Now and Then

Lucienne Day 1917-2010

British modern textile designer Lucienne Day has died; she was 93.

Calyx, 1951

Born Désirée Lucienne Conradi, she was brought up in the comfortable south London suburbs. Her mother was English and her father Belgian. She went to a convent school and always kept a distinctly continental reticence and chic. From a very early age she was focused on designing, and studied at Croydon School of Art and then, from 1937 to 1940, at the Royal College of Art. It was there, in her final year, that she first met the furniture designer Robin Day.

Decades later they were still, very touchingly, describing that meeting as the start of a true romance. Perhaps the secret lay in Lucienne's professional autonomy. Their partnership was often, wrongly, compared to that of their contemporary American designers Charles and Ray Eames. Ray Eames's professional work was merged with, and in some degree subsidiary to, her husband's, whereas Lucienne's career was always distinct.

Find it and Grind it: Goodbye to Garbage

Enjoy this short film from General Electric entitled, Goodbye to Garbage.

The Mask You Hide Behind: Erostika Lucha Libre Loot

“FUERTISIMO!!” ROCKIN' JELLY BEAN MASK PARKA {Erostika }


ROCKIN' JELLY BEAN MASK COIN POUCH {Erostika}

The Rearranging Burglar

{Modesto Bee/ May, 1958}

There's the flashing magic screen

Pee-wee Gets An iPad! from Pee-wee Herman

I'm an Occidental Woman in an Oriental Mood for Love

Mae West in Klondike Annie 1936.

Everybody Dance!

from the 1969 pilot episode of Sesame Street.

Bikinis y Rock

The musical comedy Bikinis y rock (1972) (a remake of 1962's A ritmo de twist) stars Verónica Castro, Olga Breeskin and "Loco" Valdés (the star of A ritmo de twist) ; the director, Alfredo Salazar, had a long career as a writer for Mexican films like Santo en El tesoro de Drácula, Frankestein el vampiro y compañía, Las luchadoras vs el robot asesino and La momia azteca (as well as A ritmo de twist.
Mexican bands Bandido, El Ritual and Peace and Love fill out this comedy with covers (in english) of rock classics like "Vehicle," "American Woman" and "Roll Over Beethoven."
A lack of knowledge of Spanish is no barrier to enjoying this film. If you've seen When the Boys Meet the Girls, It's Trad, Dad!, For Those Who Think Young or any beach party movie the plot is easily understood.

Ultraman in love

ウルトラマンの歌

I meant to post this back in 2007.

Your Hit Parade — New Year's Eve 1955

Your Hit Parade December 31, 1955.

Cool and Creamy: Vintage Dairy Commercial {Hungary}

A Word to the Wives

Didn't get the new kitchen you wanted for Christmas?
Follow the tips given in A Word to the Wives to get what you want.
This 1955 short blacklisted actress Marsha Hunt and Darren McGavin — you expect his scenes to be interrupted by the Bumpus hounds or Tony Vincenzo — and was directed by Norman Lloyd (yes, Dr. Auschlander).
Directed by

A merry, messy Kweznuz to all

In the reign of good Queen Vic, there stood, in Dumpling Lane in old London towne, the Moustache Shoppe of one Ebenezer Blackadder — the kindest and loveliest man in all England.

The hilarious 1988 parody Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Season's Greetings {Pathe News Newsreel / 1950}

The Go-Go's: I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with A Daleck {Oriole/ 1964}

Merry Christmas from your friends at Warner Pathé News

Santa Claus (1959)

The original version of Santa Claus en Español.

Santa Claus — the MST3K version

Santa Claus got the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment in the series' fifth season.

Santa Claus Conquers the Devil

Presented by the folks at Demented Drive In Theatre, this is the Mexican Santa Claus movie I mentioned in the last post.
I saw Santa Claus as a kid and have never forgotten it.

A Visit to Santa

This amateurish 1960s Christmas short may make your head hurt more than that Mexican Santa Claus movie.
There is a RiffTrax version available.