Retronaut: "The Past is a Foreign Country. This is your Passport."

A lot of cool stuff from the past on most any subject, as long as it's from the past. I've been following the site for years, and this latest format they have is not friendly for hotlinks. The below may not show up but it's the original Rat-Pack.

Cool. I'm currently looking at a bunch of celebrity yearbook photos from that site. Not surprising, Angelina Jolie was hot, even at a young age. George Clooney kind of looked like Bud Cort. Richard Gere looks like Remo Williams. And I thought Jim Morrison was Tom Brady. Bruce Willis' might be the best one though.

http://www.retronaut.co/2011/05/celebrity-yearbook/

I wish they had been called the Rat Plague. Way more badass.

Check out the site, Conq. You'll find something way more badass than that there.

I was just looking for plural nouns for rats actually.

I have games to play and pills to eat if I am going to make it through easter dinner.

I lost several hours on there tonight. Some of my favs so far: Bowie tour candids, Iggy/Stooges playing a high school dance, Sinatra laughing his ass off, Hendrix with Wilson Picket, Times Square in '47, tons of Jack Nicholson, 5MB hard drive.

Yeah Retronaut likes Nicholson like the Selvedge Yard likes Steve McQueen. Time spent on sites like these isn't lost, man. Enjoy.

I was looking at the Japanese live action spiderman from the late 70s. I found it kind of humorous that on that version the eyes on his mask are more slanty than the american version.

Alex may long for his Soviet Apartment but, clearly, building 'em wasn't paradise for these workers:




Hey, scatterbrain, don’t cripple your friends!




Look where you're going!




I was drunk at work.


Soviet Accident Prevention Posters

But they always got lots of vodka to fall back on.

Official U.S. Embassy advice with regard to... Hunting Yeti ?????