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37779Disney is doing a Hocus Pocus TV movie<p>Why? There's no reason at all to do this</p>Vaporman87Sep 28, 2017View
37778Last TV show you watchedjust watched the newest episode of Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge<br>CaseyJonesSep 28, 2017View
37777Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Just as good as Cannonball's version.Mr MagicSep 28, 2017View
37776Last TV show you watchedRoseanne<div><br></div><div>The former last episode.</div>Mr MagicSep 28, 2017View
37775Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Ohhhh,&nbsp; s<span style="font-size: 10pt;">o that's what that tune is called!!!</span><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Now that I know what it's called I can go over all the hundreds of versions out there on YouTube. And given that, I'm amused at all the various takes other artists have lavished on this music.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nothing quite matches up to the "Cannonball" original version, in my opinion. Nothing else "feels" right but I do like the take in this version:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div> <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8dMzoShRKME?ecver=2" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>eddstarrSep 28, 2017View
37774Family Matters cast reunionwow. I never thought I'd see Reginald VelJohnson and Jaleel White in the same room again.&nbsp; But in light of what he's been up to lately, I'm not surprised Orlando Brown (3J) wasn't there.<br><h2 class="gallery__slide-title"><br></h2>CaseyJonesSep 28, 2017View
37773Hugh Hefner has passed away at age 91<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/12/6d/f6/126df60d3e829f396d4fc0ee15f20b74.jpg"><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Hugh Hefner</b> was but one of the greatest social magicians of the 20th century, and I know his MO.</span><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">"Playboy" was "the draw" - the magazine was the eye candy that garnered all the attention, much like a magician holds up cards in his left hand, leaving uptight America to ponder the sin of soft porn.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">But if all you see are the cards in the magician's left hand, you're not paying attention to his right hand!</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">Yes - that's Hugh Hefner!&nbsp;</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">While America went crazy over a magazine, behind the scenes Hugh Hefner used the power of social connections during the non-online era to change the way adults think about sex and sexuality. Hugh Hefner may be the most influential agent in the standard of discourse in the way people think about sexuality in general.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">And I say that because Hefner's greatest impact wasn't on my parents generation, it was my generation - the kids who would grow to dominate popular culture in the 1960's.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">This is not an overstatement, Hugh hefner was one of a group of personalities that transformed American society from a world that never discussed activity behind closed doors to a new society that screamed, "everything goes", and everything did.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">Hugh Hefner's influence changed the landscape of entertainment, especially comedy, in ways that are easy to recognize but tough to measure.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">Easy example: "Monty Python's Flying Circus".</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">MPFC had no impact on my grandparents, it left my parents scratching their heads. But the guys from my generation were howling with laughter because we were the products of Hugh Hefner's world view - the naughty stuff is the fun stuff.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">But my greatest example of "the Hugh Hefner Effect" comes from the hundreds of comedy shows and specials I saw from the 60's and the 70's. "Sex is Fun" - that was the gift that Hugh gave to everyone. That mindshift in the public gave rise to a new generation of comedians that put "sexy" together with "fun" and created an entertainment foundation that would carry forward through the rest of the 20th century.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">"Hugh Hefner Effect" - exhibit A:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="4">Dave Allen</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; position: relative; height: 0px; padding-bottom: 75%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4qLW0z5B8iU?ecver=2" width="480" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div></div>eddstarrSep 28, 2017View
37772The Café<blockquote rel="Benjanime"><b>Benjanime wrote :</b><br><i> i don't know why, but seeing video ads taking up the whole page of retrojunk just seems depressing to me. is vertex really that desperate to keep the site going now? </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>I think that the infamous website redesign was meant to create more ad space. It's just horrible, everything is squished into the corner; you can't even make out what's in the retrojunk logo.&nbsp;echidna64Sep 28, 2017View
37771Drawings and Stuff<blockquote rel="Vaporman87"><b>Vaporman87 wrote :</b><br><i> Those are excellent sir! You have to love GPK. I just recently watched a documentary on GPK by the way. </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Thanks, man. I really do. If not for meeting that artist at the con last year I never would have been put on this path. So a special thank you, Vapor. I've been looking forward to that documentary. Holding out until it gets a wide release. I'd like to buy it, but it's a bit expensive from the official site.&nbsp;fuschniktSep 28, 2017View
37770Drawings and Stuff<blockquote rel="Rick Ace Rhodes"><b>Rick Ace Rhodes wrote :</b><br><i> Welcome back fuschnikt! Nice drawings you have there. </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Thank you, and thank you!fuschniktSep 28, 2017View