Jun 12 2009
R.I.P. Analog Television (1928-June 12, 2009)
Another lo-fi aspect of our lives has gone the way of the thunder lizards. As of today all television analog signals will cease existing, thus condeming all those swanky portable t.v./radio combos from the ’70’s and ’80’s that take up shelf paces at Goodwill and St. Vinnie’s to the landfill once and for all. Digital is here to stay. Farewell days of the rabbit ears. Farewell static. Farewell lightning magnet antennas that once populated rooftops. Should be a celebration, but it feels like a funeral for some reason.
I haven’t forgotten Disturbing Vintage T.V. Commercial Friday. How fitting on this somber day to remember one of the more weird product pitchmen in television history: The Kool-Aid Man. From his humble ’50’s begining as a mere phantasm taking up residence in a glass pitcher to his emergence as an agent of destruction and anarchy in the 70’s, the Kool-Aide Man has left his imprint on our culture. This soft drink timelord offered colored sugar water to children, bedeviled and brought terror to adults, and caused city taxes for repairs to sky-rocket each time he was summoned from whatever dimension he traveled from. May the giant pitcher that contains his destructive soul remain unbreakable, may his life-sustaining red fluid never run dry. Rage on, you cherry-flavored juggernaut!
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Dont forget, mixed with cyanide, it helped Jim Jones kill all those followers at Jones town. Kool-aid Flav-o-aid it’s all an aid…..
As someone who lived most my life off of “rabbit ears”…………it’s overrated my friend, trust me. It aint no glamor life……
Kool-Aid was laced with cocaine in the 50’s and the 60’s. Notice how in the commericial with the Monkey’s……a carriage appears…..
And notice how nothing spills out of kool-Aid man? Is Kool-Aid his blood? Maybe it’s his semen…………….
Kool-Aid….oh the many things I mixed with Kool-Aid. I love the Kool-Aid man, he rocks. I loved how they all had glass glasses in the 50, 60 & 70’s. The glasses were never filled anywhere near the top either, and kids would drink forever but the glass would never get lower. The magic of TV.