Tag Archives: Wacky Packages

02/19/2023 · 2:19 pm

Leave Those Kids Alone

Here at Mike The Pod we have a motto. Mike The Pod is me. Here at me we have a motto.

“Avoid Children At All Costs.” ACAAC for short, which when spoken sounds like “a cock”, two words you should never, ever utter together within earshot of children.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Worst Of All

Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 2003, acid, alcohol, America (country), black people, Caddyshack II, candy, Chaz Bono, children, Christopher Lloyd, corporate crap, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Donald Trump, drugs, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, identity politics, marijuana, Million Dollar Extreme, movies, New Jersey, NYC, Pink Floyd, Police Academy, Red Dragon, school, sellouts, sexuality, Taxi, television, tobacco, Wacky Packages, Wendy Carlos

03/07/2017 · 11:01 am

The End of the Line

Permit me to bring the room down a moment.

What’s your endgame?

What’s your purpose in life? Are you even aware of one? Are you just running on automatic, going with the flow? Nothing wrong with that, but it all leads to the same big faceless wash-out.

What do you really want out of life?

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions

Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1984, 2004, Art Spiegelman, Bijou Funnies, Bobby London, Chester Gould, Chicago, comix, corporate crap, Garbage Pail Kids, Gilbert Shelton, Jay Lynch, Kim Deitch, laughter, Mike the Pod, New Jersey, Norm Saunders, R. Crumb, Skip Williamson, Spain Rodriguez, stickers, Traveling Wilburys, underground, Wacky Packages

04/08/2016 · 6:03 pm

Those of us who were children in the late 1970s remember a form of schoolyard wampum that was ubiquitous at the time. We traded them with each other, and bought them from the corner sweet shop with our allowance, for 25 cents a pack. We’d huddle and inspect each other’s collections, muttering “got it, got it, need it, got it, need it.” We carefully stored them in plastic sleeves for the future, in meticulous fashion.

Haha! I was totally kidding about that last one. We stuck them all over our bedroom door, until our parents grew furious and made us scrape them off with a putty knife, turning them into garbage.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Faint Signals, Late To The Party, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions

Tagged as #fbf, 1970s, 1980s, Art Speigelman, Cabbage Patch Kids, comix, Crazy Labels, Garbage Pail Kids, Gary Hallgren, He-Man, Jay Lynch, John Pound, laughter, Mars Attacks!, Maus, New Jersey, Norm Saunders, stickers, Tomas Bunk, trading cards, underground, underground comix, Wacky Packages, Weird Wheels

12/09/2015 · 6:30 pm

I Go CRAZY

The venerable satire magazine MAD has had countless imitators during its lifespan. CRACKED, one of the strongest, went from a gag periodical to an online site in 2007, and is now devoted to politically correct clickbait in numbered list form. But the best MAD rip-off came and went in a scant ten years. It showcased artists and ideas too edgy and weird for Will Gaines’ flagship “of idiots”. Like many great things in life, it was called CRAZY.