You’re looking at a cartoon by B. Kliban that was featured in a 1982 edition of Playboy Magazine. The old gods are not impressed, but can be easily bought. Eat me, indeed.

Details are slim to nonexistent on this, but you are looking at Tracy Morgan appearing on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, while decked out in an outfit that is assuredly based on the Brand-X Weirdo model. I’ve got a message in to Brand-X and will share what I learn. You know the Weirdo has a special place in our hearts here. UPDATE: It’s an old appearance from 4/01/19 and you can watch it here. The clip available online is not the full interview and the topic of his outfit does not come up.

Good golly this was way too easy to do. This is from an Adobe tutorial on how to mostly automate colorizing a black and white image. This one has the obvious look of something that has been colorized but I imagine if you spent more than 3 minutes with it you could achieve more believable results. NIce to see ole lance “Check out my eyebrows” Mountain used in the pic, assuming the appropriate people got paid for that. I’m sure this picture of him has appeared in print and is probably easy to find in situ. Minions go forth!

John Cena appears in a new commercial for Thomas Ashbourne and a premade Old Fashioned cocktail. He rides a skateboard and of course, wears a sparkly gold helmet.

I saw these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cake toppers in the binder on display at the bakery inside my local grocery store. I took some poorly lit photos but then found out you could buy the whole set online anyway, so I just poached these pics. These cakes look… uhm… appetizing?

So it turns out California is somehow famous for skateboarding. Yeah, I know, I don’t understand either, but the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce wants to rectify that an exhibit in thier newly revamped welcome center. You can see the two page spread on page 5 of the Spring 2022 issue of Best of Oceanside. – Thanks to Steve Spurlock for the tip.

Blades for skateboarding on ice were invented back in 1966, and you used to see some advertised in the 70’s and 80’s as we have covered extensively before. In 1996 Iceman Products, Inc out of Sonora, California filled a trademark for Iceman Blades. I’m guessing these were probably advertised in the skate mags too. How well did they sell? Probably not too well if there’s a guy in Arizona who allegedly has 1000 units left, which can be yours for around $22 each. If you want something more upscale, you can get Xtreme Ice Blades for $130 (!) – Thanks to Quee for the tip.

There has never been a generation of girls quite like us. We have voices and no shortage of choices. We’re risk-takers and sandcastle-makers. We’re sisters, cousins and best friends who are organizing park cleanups, saving the rainforests and laughing ourselves dizzy as we swing almost as high as the swingset. The world is our ankle-deep puddle and we’re making a big splash. We girls are quite comfortable being ourselves, thank you very much. So what lies ahead for us? What lies ahead for the world? We can’t even imagine yet, but whatever it is, it’s all up to us. This is our time. This is our story. *Doll Sold Separately

You’re looking at a 1965 newspaper ad in the Alhambra Post-Advocate for Liebergs Children’s shop, a store that closed around 1991. – Thanks to Butch Gary Ayala for the pic.

Once upon a time in the fabled past known as “The 80’s,” I briefly had a miniramp in my front yard. I was supposed to be in college but I was spending all my time skateboarding and hanging out with the bands in the house I lived in. A friend of mine who would later go on to be a veterinarian, once famously received a letter from his parents stating that he needed “less Randys” in his life. Of course I would invite friends over to ride my ramp. And, as one often does after a night out at the bars, a suggestion was made to use box springs for those late night revelers who were uncomfortable on a skateboard. It started out as just dropping in from the platform, but it escalated to dropping in off the porch roof into the transition. Note: No college students, indie rock stars or dropouts were hurt in these photos.