From Shock Treatment, which was a follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The ONLY thing I remember from seeing Shock Treatment is our Tuesday Song of the Week.
Dig:
'Little Black Dress'
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Bag o' the Day
Gosh oh golly, it's been months since the last BotD,
but it was worth the wait.
Wanna see?
Depicting four of the nine Muses (probably the most important ones)
Something great for the musician or dancer or person who appreciates Greek mythology or person who likes the rare and neato tote bag.
Get it here:
https://www.zazzle.com/ancient_greek_silhouettes_of_the_muses_print_tote_bag-256703362039525295
Saturday, December 25, 2021
for the curmudgeonly and/or the hater of Christmas
I've stated more than once on this blog about how much I like Christmas.
Which is not at all.
This brings us to a poem I wrote, and read to a poetry group a few Decembers ago, with the caveat, 'You probably won't like this but...'
Anyway, here 'tis.
Enjoy.
or not.
Xmas
If you’ll excuse the term,
and pardon my French,
It’s all happy horseshit,
and homie don’t play that.
✶
Give me my Hallmark moments,
Give me a Kodak time of my life,
Give me a break.
✶
Bring out the Ipod,
failing that, earplugs.
The only protection against
Breathy songstresses
and their annual public assault,
raising my hackles with.
Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart
and
All I Want for Christmas Is
NOT you,
but
an honest admission
that this
has nothing to do with
peace on earth, goodwill toward men
but rather a once yearly
nation-wide hemorrhage
of money.
cloaked in the warm freakin’ fuzzies.
Copyright 2019 The Full-Service Bohemian
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
The Tuesday Song of the Week
Welcome to our Christmas-free TSOTW!
Heard this one for the very first time on the local oldies station (WMID), which plays all kinds of stuff the other oldies stations never play.
Enjoy.
'Yogi' - The Ivy Three
Saturday, December 11, 2021
The Star Made Me Buy It
Today's star is somebody I'd never ever expect to find advertising anything.
Monty Woolley for Ethyl Corporation
He's most famous, I think, for playing the lead in The Man Who Came to Dinner. A movie I don't care for, because it seems to be one of those deals where the playwright (this began life on Broadway) was just trying to outdo some other 'in the know' competitor. Ann Sheridan is channeling Gertrude Lawrence, for one, and Banjo, is obviously Harper Marx. The lead is based on Alexander Wollcott, a Broadway critic back in the day. Color me bored.
He had a great role in The Bishop's Wife. That's a film I can recommend.
December's Cool Ties, Retro Ties, Vintage Ties
Ties have very much been on the back burner for the last several months.
But they're back!
Wanna see?
Another manticore/sphynx tie in yet another color
beautiful redhead = beautiful tie
Let's fish!
Have a leg up
shake hands
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See the zillions of other ties in my Zazzle shop here:
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Christmas Buying Guide - Collection XIII
Our last collection for Christmas 2021.
But filled to the brim with awesome awesomeness!!
We be having mugs AND matching tiles.
Wanna see?
Victorian black cat - the mug
Victorian blank cat - the tile
Find the mug, the tile, and lots more with this beauty here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%22black%20cat%22
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Next something for the military enthusiast.
1939 British Fairey Junior Medium Bomber - the mug
and 1939 British Fairey Junior Medium Bomber - the tile
See more examples of late 1930s military aviation here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%22aviation%22
And MORE military stuff here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%22military%22
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Beautiful magazine cover image from 1925 - the mug
Beautiful magazine cover image from 1925 - the tile
To see more items graced with this beauty, go here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%221925%22
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1940s Moonbeam Citrus crate label - the mug
1940s Moonbeam Citrus crate label - the tile
See all matching items here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%22Moonbeam%22
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ADORABLE Christmas elf - the mug
ADORABLE Christmas elf - the tile
To see other items with this charmer, go here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%22Christmas%20elf%22
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To see ALL my hundreds of mugs, go here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%22mug%22
And ALL of my hundreds of tiles, go here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=%22tile%22
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
The Tuesday Song of the Week
Last week we had 'Just Like Heaven,' by the Cure.
This week we have...
'Feels Like Heaven' - Fiction Factory
This was a big hit in the UK when I was there as a PSU student in a program at the University of Exeter.
I was with a group of PSU students, and each and every one of us hated the food.
I'll never never forget being in line to get into the cafeteria, and one of my classmates singing 'Smells like heaven.. "
Christmas Buying Guide - Collection XII
This is the third collection of jigsaw puzzles.
These are some of my favorites. Some are harder than others, but I know lotsa people who go for those very challenging puzzles.
So here we go:
difficult
A teensy bit less difficult, and way more fun, if you're a cat person
challenging, but not super difficult. Please it's a neat relic of old-timey fashion advertising.
This one's a little harder, but what's more fun than Vikings???
Either hard, or not hard. Depends on how you're wired.
https://www.zazzle.com/baroque_italian_motifs_collage_jigsaw_puzzle-116036320532659736
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Lastly a puzzle so beautiful difficulty will mean nothing.
That's it for today.
Tomorrow we'll post our final 2021 Christmas Buying Guide.
Until then, see more, get more here:
Monday, December 6, 2021
Christmas Buying Guide - Collection XI
As you may recall, yesterday's collection was of hardcover spiral-bound notebooks.
Today we have smaller Moleskine notebooks, perfectly suitable as stocking stuffers.
What's neat about these is that they're refillable, i.e. once you're done writing and/or doodling on all 64 pages, you can get from Moleskine another pack of 64 pages that fit right in the cover.
And as with the other ones, the image appears on both the front and back covers. In mirror image if the image has not writing on it. If so, not in mirror image. But nevertheless 100% super-mega-über-neato.
Wanna see some?
EPIC cuteness, in parakeet form
Handsomeness, in horse form
colorfulness, in firecracker plant form
zoom zoom-ness, in 1938 Chrysler form
hearty-ness in King and Queen of Hearts form.
note that the King appears on the front cover. His Queen is on the back cover.
That's it for this collection.
Only two more days of collections!
See ALL my notebooks, both hardcover spiral-bound, and stocking stuffer-size, here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=notebook&dp=252323455782771574
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Christmas Buying Guide - Collection X
Today we're going to show you some maahvelous notebooks.
Spiral-bound, and with hard covers. Soft covers too flimsy, and also not awesome.
What we have is awesome. AND the images on the front cover also appear on the back cover in mirror image. Unless there's text on the image. It will still also appear on the back, but not in mirror image. That would be silly.
Tomorrow we'll have little notebooks that make neato stocking stuffers. These here are more for important things, like school and work and thoughts and ideas.
Note that all have 60 pages, two sides per pages (obviously) so that adds up to 120 surfaces you can make notes on, or mathematical calculations, song lyrics, and/or your suspicions about what's going on with that guy in the accounts inconceivable department and the gal from corporate benefits.
Wanna see?
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A hypnotically neato notebook. Lotsa gals, and not just a few men would go for this.
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That's it for today. More tomorrow.
Until then, have a look see at some more notebooks - EIGHT HUNDRED + - here:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=notebook&dp=252323455782771574
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Christmas Buying Guide - Collection IX
Another neato home decor collection, which should have been posted yesterday, but the photos wouldn't load. So here it is today. Today's, i.e. Saturday's, I'll post later today. This collection is made up of mahhhvelous home decor items from my Etsy store.
Wanna see?
First up, this divine item is beckoning you to take a whirl on the dance floor with her
you see that it's actually her skirt swirling around her.
She's also a planter!
and/or the dance decor.
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Another vintage lady planter, this one from Hedy Schoop...
A neat take on the classic book planter, above is a reader
A neat gift for the Hedy Schoop collector, California pottery collector, figural planter collector, and/or anyone in whose home something retro would be welcome.
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Another planter, this one a bone china chintz beauty by St. George of England.
A lovely gift for the collector of English chintz bone china items and/or anyone with a chintz decor or floral decor.
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From planters to wall decor!
first up, this epic cute little item with two Scottie dogs
Something sweet for the fan of Scottie dogs and/or for someone with a Scottie dog-intensive decor and/or eclectic decor.
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Lastly, but far from leastly, a vintage home decor staple, to wit...
a figural wall pocket.
These were huhYOOGE back in the day. This one would be perfect for long-stemmed flowers, artificial or otherwise, also for anyone with a music-oriented decor and/or who is a musician and/or violinist. Made in the 1940s by Goldra, a short-lived pottery based in E. Palestine, OH. Therefore, also a great gift for the person who collects Ohio pottery.
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Thus ends Collection IX. Collection X coming.
See more, get more here:
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Christmas Buying Guide - Collection VIII
As mentioned in Collection VI, amma have three jigsaw puzzle collections.
This is the second, which will be puzzles featuring people.
Wanna see?
pretty green-eyed redhead
17th century smoker
Her Royal Highness Queen Alexandra, formerly the Princess of Wales
men of the family
him and her in love
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See HUNDREDS more here:
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