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Aug 21, 2023·edited Aug 21, 2023Pinned

You hed gif is from a 1976 television advert for Kool-Aid. And it features another child actor. Get the deets and some fun history here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/oh-yeah

Oops, updated link. Should work now.

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Aug 21, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

I really thought that was cousin Oliver.

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Aug 21, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Wow, does that bring back memories!

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All Skate at the skating rink!

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Tig Nataro's animated special Drawn imagines what life for the Kool-aid Man must be like during the day.

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I love Tig! Will have to find that.

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It's very funny, each bit has a different style of animation. It's on HBO (or MAX, or whatever they call it). Enjoy

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"Without our Mayor Quimby,

Our town would really stink!

We wouldn't have our tire yard,

Or a mid-size roller rink!"

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Aug 21, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

In the spring of 1976 I was finishing up my first, miserably paid, year of teaching in a high school in the same county that fired that teacher for reading a book. I volunteered for the Carter campaign that summer. KOOL-ADE was a luxury. I was in the first year of a bad marriage. Disco ruled the radio.

Good times.

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I'd pay good money to see you grooving at the roller disco!

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You ain't rich enough.

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Aren't I, though? Maybe not with money, but definitely with love.

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Aug 21, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

Aw. That is extra sad for me. My roller rink closed on Saturday.

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Holy SHIT that clown is creepy.

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Yes. It’s under my bed, isn’t it.

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Might be in your closet too.

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now you know why Boomers hate clowns so much!

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It kind of blows me away to think there was a time that people didn’t mind clowns

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I'm old, but not THAT old. And I've never understood why people find clowns in general creepy, John Wayne Gacy notwithstanding. But then I rarely get the uncanny valley effect either.

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Oh YEAH!

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Aug 21, 2023Liked by Martini Glambassador

I still say that in my deepest voice to indicate affirmation.

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I was stunned at how good that Watterson piece was.

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The Oregon law was intended to allow people in rural areas to pump their own gas but was but was instantly implemented in heavily populated counties, where I live--it is a luxury to sit in my car and let someone pump my gas but the war on customer service continues apace along with automated

"customer service" phone trees

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Lots of great stuff here, my favorite being the Politico link to what I will call a well deserved tribute to Ron Filipkowski, that man is a hero, a national treasure that I would absolutely support if he ever decides to run for an office.

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I thought this was too OT for the Barbie thread.

I watched a video on the X where this woman talked about how she and her husband were freaked out by the ? sex scene in Oppenheimer. She went through this whole spiel about how they always "talk through" things ahead of time and blah blah...tl;dr. She seemed like someone who goes to Pastor Greg's church.

Then I saw a thing about Logan Paul ?? saying he walked out of same film because there was "no action". It was just all talking.

I can see how a (checks notes) WWE/YouTube star(!) might not be quite up to understanding a movie with no chase scenes or fight sequences.

So sad, sucks to be you Logan.

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I feel a bit wistful about the gas-pumping biz. For as long as I can remember, they’ve put it to a vote, and it’s lost every time. It was one of those odd cultural quirks that made Oregonians whatever the hell we are.

Still no sales tax (thank you), but not pumping your own gas slips into the state mythology, along with Sasquatch, a governor who said “visit but don’t stay” (still good advice), and blowing up whale carcasses with dynamite.

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I loved the bridge video. Maybe because I consider the George Washington Bridge, MY bridge as I look at it everyday and have photographed it a zillion times in all weather, seasons and POVs.

Here's a couple pics, one of the Little Red Lighthouse and the other of a red tugboat passing below it in winter.

https://substack.com/profile/155618292-ziggywiggy/note/c-36866267

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Jeff Bridges?

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Aug 21, 2023Liked by ziggywiggy, Stephen Robinson

I grew up in the other state, now the only state, that doesn't allow you to pump your own gas, but I learned how while I still had my permit because NJ is small and it's easy to find oneself in a neighboring state. Now it feels kinda weird to go back and fill up there, but it is nice in the winter to not have to get out of the car. I tip the attendant on those nights.

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My uncle worked for API in DC (American Petroleum Institute) which is the lobby of the petroleum industry. He was both a lawyer and a scientist/geneticist and he prepared the trial lawyers for lawsuits regarding human injuries from interaction with petroleum. He was privy to all the scientific data the oil companies had gathered and done regarding this issue. He had to sign an NDA…but the only thing he felt he could say to me is “Never pump your own gas”.

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Aug 21, 2023Liked by Stephen Robinson

“And everyone involved will complain when they are the obvious villains in the eventual movie.”

Unless that move is God’s Not Dead XLVII. In which case, they will be the heroes against the evil atheist teacher who wouldn’t let their kids love Jesus.

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"Bidens take break from vacation to tour Hawaii devastation"

Fox, news for the least mature among us.

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"Bidens extend vacation with tour of Hawaii."

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"Project Veritas is going belly up. Tee hee."

Reading that story was a glorious shot of schadenfreude, but I am also gobsmacked. Project ShowMyAss had 43 employees? At least one HR officer? I always assumed it was run out of O'Queef's basement. Anyway, I predict it folds in less than a year. Hannah Giles is floundering (LOLOLOLOL)

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Cool beans -- depending on what site I go to, my AQI is either totally healthy, go outside and run around and breathe it all in! Ignore that yellowish brown fog! Or LOCK YOUR FUCKING DOORS AND DUCT TAPE YOUR WINDOWS, THE END TIMES ARE UPON US!!!! So I am going to take the reasonable approach and go for a walk. Then I will crank the air purifier back up, make sure the dehumidifiers are empty, and sit inside. The one great thing about all of this is that, with the windows closed, I can turn on the dehumidifiers and get the humidity down below 80% in here.

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