They weren’t just smoking cigarettes….

As a member of the MTV generation, I grew up with a total hard on for Hall and Oates. My mom liked them too, and one of the first records I remember listening to on my own was “Private Eyes” (which is still my favorite Hall and Oates record of all time). So I’ve been slowly getting into the 70’s Hall and Oates, and I’m really digging it. It’s kind of like glammy soul, or something like that. I’ve also come to the conclusion that Darryl Hall has NEVER had a decent hair cut. At least Oates was rocking the porno ’stache!

Here’s a video from 1973 for their hit “She’s Gone”. What kind of drugs were they doing when they made this? But my favorite part is when Darryl is smoking and they have a long pull-away shot of the ottoman. I wish I could tell what kind of smokes he was smoking!

Calling Dr. Kool

While going through my boxes of crap, I found this painting that I did of the Kool penguin. He’s not a real doctor, he just plays one in magazine advertisements……

Chalon Mart – Los Angeles, CA

So is it a restaurant, or a banquet hall? If they’re serving numerous parties of a 100+ all weekend long, then the place must be HUGE! This menu is for the 1919 S. Broadway location, so I wonder if the one on Manchester did the same thing? I wonder how many 75th anniversaries and Quinceañeras were held at THIS place?

Delicious AND Effective???

Tequla Sunrise

Easter Sunday, Phoenix Arizona, 1952

This is one of my all-time favorite slides!

Mary-Charlotte transforms a quaint motel bathroom into a makeshift cocktail bar. The luscious lass, with her striking strawberry blond hair and exquisite peaches-and-cream complexion, smokes a cigarette perched between her perfectly painted lips as she carefully mixes Tequila and Kahlua with a squeeze. I don’t know if she calls her Easter cocktail the Tequla Sunrise, but I do!

Speaking of Easter, what happened to Wester, Souther or Norther? Easter is the only holiday with a directional influence and the only holiday that celebrates fertility. Like two of the other most famous days of the year, Halloween and Valentines Day, we celebrate Easter by consuming candy and lots of it.

What Santa is to Christmas the Easter bunny is too Easter. But unlike Santa, who just brings us stuff, eats cookies and leaves, the Easter bunny does more. He brings a multi-color basket overflowing with shredded plastic and candy. And as if that wasn’t enough he then hides the chicken eggs we happily hard boiled and colored the day before so we can hunt them.

Easter is also the biggest day of the year for Peeps. The charming, color-coated marshmallows were first mass-squeezed out of tubes into the shape of fresh born baby chickens in 1954. Sit one on top of your Easter morning coffee or Tequla Sunrise and watch it melt!

Here’s to the Tequla Sunrise, the Easter Bunny, Peeps, Mary-Charlotte and YOU!

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Length matters – Part 2

Before I post this next entry, I just wanted to apologize for not updating the site as much as usual – I’ve been sick in bed for the last week with a nasty sinus infection, and I’ll be busy as hell for the next week trying to catch up at work. But once I get back on track, Smoker’s Hack will be go back to being it’s tastefully cool self.

So here’s another commercial that puts the emphasis on length. I guess if your man isn’t up to par, you might as well have something long. But when you really think about it, the “long” cigarette is more about leisure smoking. Back then, you could take your time with your cigarette – go ahead and smoke a “long”, because you weren’t in a hurry to go anywhere. It’s not like now, where I have to run outside, light it up, puff away in a hurry, and rush back inside before the show starts or the meal hits the table. In today’s smoking society, there is no time to smoke “longs”. You barely have the time or place to smoke a short. If this commercial was set in the year 2007, it would go like this:

Beach Police (not related to the Dream Police): “Excuse me ma’am, I need to ask you to put that out. This is “No-Smoking” beach.
Tax Paying Citizen Lady: “But there’s no one around me!”
Beach Police: “I’m sorry ma’am, but it’s bothering the sand bees and horseflies.”
Tax Paying Citizen Lady: “Lady be Kool, my ass!”

Length matters….

I was going to name this entry “Make Room for Tobacco”, but I decided to go with the sexual innuendo instead. I like this clip alot, except how the announcer keeps pronouncing it “Pell Mell” and not “Pall Mall”. Argh!