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Flashback: Sexy '60s Girl Group

GiggleSugar — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:00 -0700

If the "other delights" include chips, jalapeños, and melted cheddar cheese, then these ladies have my undivided attention. Our gals may look lick luscious on the cover of this album, but all sex appeal was completely unintentional. The Frivolous Five were parodying the cover of a popular Herb Alpert album called Whipped Cream and Other Delights. You gotta love a group of grannies who don't take themselves too seriously. I've never heard their vocal stylings myself, but the cover alone makes this record anything but frivolous. Love them!

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Flashback: Space Food Sticks

GiggleSugar — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:00:00 -0700

I have no clue why anyone would choose to feed on the chemically enhanced and processed "food" they serve the astronauts in space, but there's obviously a market for it. Space Food Sticks were introduced back in the '60s and, to my surprise, are still available online today. The following commercial claims that these ~~dog~~ treats provide "lasting energy to feel alive." In only 44 calories. Which seems totally feasible to me.

Flashback: Old Timey Commercials for Old School Games

GiggleSugar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:30:00 -0800

What were we thinking? One game encouraged impressionable kiddos to play with dynamite and another had them steal cheese from a mouse trap. Let's not forget Poppin Hoppies, the game promoted by a slurring, drunken, cartoon narrator who's clearly "popped" open a few already. And then there's my all-time fave: The Big Sneeze. Germs didn't exist back in the '60s, so an uncovered sneeze was a hoot 'n hollering good time!

Flashback: Kiddie Submachine Gun Set

GiggleSugar — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:22:05 -0800

Back in the day when toys cost a measly three bucks, Mattel had submachine guns and pistols on the market. If modern day video games influence young children in negative ways, then how about the smoke-firing guns, holsters, and ammo little dudes used to play target practice with a few decades ago? The more things change, the more they stay the same- surprise, surprise, with a little "bang, bang!" thrown in to boot.

Flashback: '60s Hula Hoop and Frisbee Ad

GiggleSugar — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:00:00 -0800

In a world full of Guitar Hero, iPhones, and dot com dating, it's nice to be reminded of simpler times, times when there were - oh boy! - seven different types of frisbees to choose from. But that's not all Wally, guys and gals could meander on down to the beach to shoop, shoop, hula hoop together. (So that's what they called it?) Good times!

A Monday Musical Interlude!

GiggleSugar — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:30:00 -0700

Set the choreography of Bob Fosse to Unk's "Walk It Out," and you got a perfect match. Who knew? Now if only I could say the same about the brightly colored, polyester pantsuits these women are thrusting about in. And I kept waiting for them to "fly it out" with the serious sleeves they're sporting, but that would've ended all the fun too soon-- so flap on ladies, flap on! (Thanks, This Just In...!)

Boy Bands in the 60's

GiggleSugar — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:15:00 -0800

It's hard to imagine that these guys existed in the same era as The Rolling Stones and The Who--you know, cool bands. Maybe they were home-schooled or something--by elves from Vegas.

A picture says a thousand words, but I really only have one: Wow.

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GiggleSugar Reader of the Week: Francoisehardly

GiggleSugar — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:00:00 -0700

See that little tot there? She grew up to be funny, smart, and have awesome musical tastes! Francoise Hardy is one of my favorite of the French yé-yé singers from the '60s, so I was pleased to see a reader was paying homage to the French goddess with her screen name. This lady's too cool for school. With musical tastes ranging from The Velvet Underground to Television to Joanna Newsom, I had to find out more about this mysterious GiggleSugar fan! To find out about Francoisehardly, read more.

GS: What’s your motto?
FH: "All I can do is be me. Whoever that is." I stole that phrase from Bob Dylan since I think it makes sense for me and I don't already have a motto but I would probably make that one one of mine.

GS: Where are you from?
FH:The New York City suburbs. It's boring here.

GS: What do you do? I'm currently trying to transfer yet again to finally finish school and work in graphic design. Even though if school wasn't necessary and I could do many things at once, it would be awesome if I could also be a movie director and a cinematographer and maybe a nutritional anthropologist. I don't know where someone works when doing that but it seems interesting.

GS: How would you describe your sense of humor?
FH: I'm not quite sure what I would call my sense of humor. According to my sister, it's dry at least when it comes to how she considers me funny. I like shows like Arrested Development, both versions of The Office, Fawlty Towers, and Pushing Daisies. I don't know what that says about my sense of humor.

GS: What’s your favorite GiggleSugar post?
FH: Things that involve animals, cute kids, Demetri Martin, and the 1980s.

GS: Who’s the cutest (best-looking) funny man and funny woman?
FH: Demetri Martin because his sense of humor suits me? I don't actually really think about which funny people I think are cute. For females, Amy Poehler? I like her hair.

GS: Who are your favorite male and female comedians?
FH: For male, I'll have the give the same answer along with Bill Murray and Jon Stewart. For female, maybe Tina Fey or Gilda Radner when she plays the hyperactive girl who pretends to have her own show in her room.

GS: What’s your favorite comedy of all time?
FH: It's a little hard to pick one because some of the movies I like have funny parts but aren't necessarily comedies. Maybe Rushmore or Harold and Maude. Maybe Elf for Christmas movies. If humans raised by Christmas elves actually existed they would need to be my best friends. We could decorate the whole house super fast and make Christmas sweets, especially sweets that involve chocolate and gingerbread houses.

GS: If your life were a comedy, what would it be?
FH: Probably The Royal Tenenbaums meets Harold and Maude meets Amelie meets A Hard Day's Night and it would be shot like a Michel Gondry movie mashed up with Truffaut with the cinematography of a Sofia Coppola movie. (GS: Whew!) And it would also have elements of Arrested Development. I have absolutely no idea how that would work, but I get to be Margot with the fur and cigarettes replaced with chic beige trench coats and some records and be Margot when she had dark hair.

GS: Do you look like someone famous?
FH: I can tell you who I wish I looked like but no, I don't. I was happy to get people like Audrey Tautou, Ingrid Bergman, Katherine Hepburn, and Mia Farrow on the My Heritage site, but I don't think I look like any of them.

Francoisehardly free-for-all: I wasn't quite sure what to post here, so I'll just say this. If you're in a bad mood, watch Goldfrapp's video for the song "Happiness," and I'm not just saying that since I listed the song as a Spring playlist choice for BuzzSugar. It features a really happy man in a white suit bouncing all over town, it's an adorable video and hopefully it'll put anyone who watches it in a better mood.

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(Francoise as a little tot, Amy Poehler, Bill Murray, Demetri Martin, Gilda Radner, Jon Stewart, Tina Fey)

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Flashback: Kraftwerk's "The Robots"

GiggleSugar — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:00:00 -0700

The German band Kraftwerk--from their look to their sound to their sense of humor--has had a huge role in what modern music looks and sounds like. Devo, Daft Punk, Air? Ambient, Techno, Electroclash? Impossible without Kraftwerk. Remember that they were formed in 1970, when the 60's "Flower Power" ethos was still in full bloom, and it's hard to imagine where a band that fetishizes robots, pocket calculators and the Autobahn could have come from. Duh. Germany, of course. This video rocks. Never have robots been so sexy...

Book of the Day: That's Queen B*tch to You!

GiggleSugar — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:27:00 -0800

The humor in That's Queen B*tch To You!--a flip-book of ads from the 50's and 60's--comes from the contrast between the psycho-cheeriness of the women in the ads with the b*tchiness of the "what they were really thinking" thought bubbles. Example: "Men have feelings too...But who really gives a crap?" and "My mother doesn't just enjoy guilt trips, she runs the travel agency."