Saturday, December 15, 2012
Happy Chair
If Steve from Blue's Clues can have his "Thinking Chair," certainly we groovy people can have a "Happy Chair." This exceptional model comes from The Happy Shak in Foley, AL. Very groovy things for sale there. Be sure to visit next time you're in L.A. (Lower Alabama.)
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
The Return of Screaming Yellow Zonkers
They are/were at Walgreens for a limited engagement. Why are we groovy people just now hearing about this?
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Royal Commands
Royal commands can be groovy - that is, when one is commanded to do the very thing one does without having been commanded.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
More Braininess! (Is that a word?)
We groovy people want this Tshirt (in another color) from Mental Floss. Oh, the grooviness of brainy people! We love them!
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Wing Windows
Window technology has come a long way. I suppose that the wing window allowed you to direct air in the car while simultaneously allowing the main window to be rectangular for the ease of engineering the frame, handle, etc. Now that designers have figured out a way to make a not-rectangular window go into the door pocket, they have also figured out that one window is cheaper than two, and adios wing windows. Pity. They are groovy. We miss them. And we don't even smoke.
Friday, June 1, 2012
French Toast
French toast. With butter & syrup. Powdered sugar works, too. Yum. Groovy breakfast. Ooh la la = French for "How groovy!"
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Converse Nails
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Mental Floss
Here's what Mental Floss has to say about the word Groovy:
First heard amongst jazz musicians in the 1920s, groovy — or groovey — was a word used to describe music that was played with feeling and finesse. It was based on the phrase “in the groove,” which referred to the way a phonograph needle on a record player followed the grooves of a record. To be groovy was to be in perfect sync with the music. Strangely, in 1947, 20th Century Fox used the word in a promo trailer to describe and promote the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street. The word made a major comeback in the 1960s, of course, as a kind of generic for anything good, as when Simon & Garfunkel famously sang, “Life I love you, all is groovy.” The Austin Powers films brought the word back again in the ‘90s, in a kitschy way. And kitschy is what groovy will probably remain.
Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/114162#ixzz1k7NIxuwk
--brought to you by mental_floss!
Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/114162#ixzz1k7NIxuwk
--brought to you by mental_floss!
Here's what we groovy people have to say:
Austin Powers is a wanne be, jealous impostor, nothing more. Just sayin'.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Time Enough
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