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Entries from July 2008

Time Warp Products

July 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The Vermont Country store has been in the business of offering tried-and-true favorites to U.S. customer for years from their stores in Vermont.  They’ve stepped into the future by offering on-line shopping carts, but they carry things you and your grandmother would probably remember. 

Take, for instance, Love’s Baby Soft.  One of it’s main ingredients is alcohol, but it still has that light, refreshing scent you remember from your more pimply teen days.  Need to munch on some Wheat Nuts?  It’s still low carb! Want someone to say, “Gee, your hair smells terrific?”  Grab a bottle or two! These products are still available through their snailmail catalogue or on-line!  Just check them out at www.vermontcountrystore.com!

Make sure you click on “Home Town Stories” for some wonderful reminiscing by customers about more innocent, less frenetic times. 

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Peeping Tom-Vintage 60’s Cinema

July 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

My boyfriend and I had just gotten back from a trip, so we didn’t feel much like doing anything but channel surfing.  We came across this thriller gem on the RETRO channel on cable-”Peeping Tom”-a freaky, British psychological thriller from the swinging 60’s about young man who films women reactions as he murders them.  Muuahahahaha!

The British audience at the time wasn´t used to all that violence on the big or little screen, so this film was a shocker.  However, Hitchcock’s “Psycho” was released about the same time.  What was in the air, I wonder? ”Peeping Tom” is as creepy as Hitchcock’s masterpiece about voyeurism, but not as well-acted.  Although I tried to tear myself away, I found myself glued to the tellie.  Did I become a voyeur myself??? 

For sure, I was checking out the outfits.  The lead female, for example has some cute pieces in there, like the orange dress she wears for her birthday.  The lingerie that the nudie models wear (the murderer is a photographer, as well.  How convenient!) are fantastic.  You also can’t miss a very strange, but energetic choreographed number of one victim before she dies and a peak what we used before we had Ipods and speaker phones!

Unfortunately, our blond leading man doesn’t venture much out of his beige color scheme, but he still looks cute enough to lure the unsuspecting female victims in front of his camera. 

A completely entertaining, if not thoroughly creepy, night at the movies!

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