The Atari Video Music

Here is a weird item from the Sears Catalog in the late 1970s.

This was put out by Atari around the time of the Pong home consoles. Basically you plugged your stereo into this and this into your TV and you get some pixels that correspond to the music.

It cost $169 in 1979 which would be like 7.6 million dollars today.

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Musical Lighters

Here is something I never knew existed: musical lighters!

Think of a music box, being stuck inside a lighter!

A sticker on the front announces that this will play "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes".

The back has a small dial, much like a music box.

This one advertises some product that "Irons in the wash":

 The back has a familiar little dial:

Here is one more, from Monsanto! Monsanto famously brought The House of the Future to Disneyland:

Now they bring music to your smoke break!

Now, lighters are mostly disposable so I guess the age of the musical lighter has passed us by.


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Mexican Movie Posters

Guitarras Lloren Guitarras: Three guitars, the dudes and one lady with plants growing on her skirt.

La Bestia Magnifica: Hey! It's a wrestling movie! Plus there is a lady in a shiny dress.

 El Quelite: Wow! Lady is in her sexy undergarments and there are dozens of legs popping out of the ground. For some reason the dude with the beard and the dude in the sombrero don't look impressed.

Como 2 Gotas De Agua: Twins with a ladder and two tear drops IN EASTMAN COLOR! Count me in!

 Rosa La Tequilera: A puppet is puppeteer-ing people! Plus a clown!

Tres Palomas Alborotadas: Angels! Bird men! Bird nun! A human carrot!

I hate my heater

You know the water heater and air conditioning/heater system you have in the basement.

I hate it.

If you are lucky, the basement is designed so it is out of the way. Not in my basement.

It's right in the way. Not in a corner, right by the stairs.

This stupid ugly thing. Actually, it's like 2 stupid ugly things.

So hideous. No design at all, except for the hideous stickers they put on telling you who to call when it malfunctions.

Ugh.

Why can't this:

be designed to look like this:

Why can't this:

look like this?:

Guy Hutchinson

Cowboy Bob Orton and George The Animal Steele at the Beach

Frame it and hang it over your mantle!

SpaghettiOs spoons

I decided to search for SpaghettiOs on eBay. No particular reason. That's just what I do.

I found some spoons for sale. I never had these as a kid and I don't think I have seen them before.


This one has SpaghettiOs faces on the handle:

Look at em, like a big ole SpaghettiOs totem pole!

Here is the high end version:

It's all fancy and gives you a place to have your child's name engraved,

I have the word "FORK" engraved on it.

Guy Hutchinson