Month: September 2013

Back in the 1990’s, there was an ad that used to grace commercial breaks on late-night TV that opened with the image above. It then cut to these two jokers below:

It was an unintentionally hilarious ad promoting a “not available in stores” compilation album titled PUNK, filled with 36 decidedly non-punk songs from the eighties. Here’s the full ad:

For your enjoyment, I’ve compiled the videos for all the songs featured in the ad and posted them below to spice up your retro Saturday night. Enjoy!

Who Can It Be Now? – Men at Work

New Sensations – INXS

So Alive – Love and Rockets

Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House

You Might Think – The Cars

Chains of Love – Erasure

Hey Mickey – Toni Basil

My Sharona – The Knack

I Want a New Drug – Huey Lewis and the News

Talking in Your Sleep – The Roamantics

One Thing Leads to Another – The Fixx

Here Comes the Rain Again – Eurhythmics

Human – Human League

Hold Me Now – Thompson Twins

Jeopardy – Greg Kihn Band

Karma Chamelon – Culture Club

Wild Wild West – The Escape Club

Found at Doghouse Diaries. Click to see the source.

Back in October 2010, it occurred to me that the big names Toronto’s mayoral election reminded me of characters from Family Guy, most notably Rob Ford, whom I’ve been comparing to Peter Griffin ever since:

My friend Todd Lamothe just told me that the Family Guy folks have decided to run with the idea, as they just posted this image to their Facebook page to promote the Family Guy Live reading at the JFL42 comedy festival:

This pleases me.

Click to see the image at full size.

I’m sure the late great pitchman (and fellow Tampa hanger-outer) Billy Mays would’ve approved.

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Photo courtesy of Rich Leighton. Click to see the source.

Did a little bit of iOS programming today that was the software equivalent of this. It wasn’t pretty, but it does work.

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Photo taken by Mike McCann.

And they knew where to stop, too: they still used the tasteful term “feminine needs”. Now is it me, or is this the most weirdly-stocked grocery aisle you’ve seen?

(For those of you who don’t spend much time south of the Mason-Dixon line: Piggly Wiggly is the name of a grocery chain.)