How to Talk to Your Child About Masturbation
Via Copyranter, here is a 1970s PSA about what to say when you walk in on your mute, feather-haired tween, "Ricky," masturbating. I don't recommend watching it. [Buzzfeed]
Jerry Seinfeld's First Awful Joke on Television
Jerry Seinfeld talked to the NY Times about launching his own site, JerrySeinfeld.com which will be a repository for clips of all of his stand-up comedy routines. If they're anything like this TV appearance from 1977, it's going to be hard to find an audience.
New York in the '70s Wasn't All That Great
Some people have a tendency to idealize the wild, anything-goes New York City of the 1970s. Here's some vintage footage from some sort of news program or documentary about public transportation during the era. The hilariously stereotypical voiceovers talk about dangerous subways, dirty buses, and horrific cabs.…
The Campy Swine Flu Ads that Saved America
Basic message: Anything sign of happiness in your attitude will cause you to die, followed by your loved ones.
But hey, I like the pep!
The Best Of Wacky Packages
Wacky Packages were the Consumerist.com of the 1970s (minus the journalism). They were sold in packs like baseball cards, but each card was some spoof of a consumer product, with Mad Magazine-style humor. Crest Toothpaste? Make that Creep Toothpaste, ha. They are simply mesmerizing. Every product imaginable, from…
Mortgage Crisis To Ethnically Un-Cleanse Manhattan
Author John Strausbaugh, speaking on a panel made up of contributors to a new book about how New York was better back then, basically declared the entire island of Manhattan culturally dead because everyone has been priced out of it besides that Hearst girl and Jared Kushner. And then he described gentrification in v.…
