Paul Simon Calls Him Al (Franken)
Senator Paul Simon and comedian Al Franken rehearse for a Citizen Action dinner honoring Simon at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC, June 5, 1991
[photos by Jamie Howren via LOC]
Treasure Chess
THIS
is one of the greatest commercials of all time(/my childhood)
it almost made me want to join the Marines or learn chess or play outdoors in armor when it’s thundererering and lightninginging.  I never did none of that stuffs :(
it’s the Marine Corps ‘Chess’ ad created by J Walter Thompson in 1991
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further reading -Â The Legend of the Gulf War: Marine Corps Recruitment and the Metaphor of Chess [pdf]
She Is So Fly
look familiar????
OF COURSE IT DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from stock image to Blur’s very first album cover!!!!
[hat tip to the Feeney]