Popthomology

A BUNCH MORE WEIRD ALBUM COVERS FROM SOFLA THRIFT STORES!

2019-03-20T12:04:00.000-07:00

Recently, on a lovely vacation seeing lovely friends, I revisited some of the wondrous Miami-area thrift stores that I've enjoyed discovering over the last few years. Yes, of course there are the same Barbra Streisand/Mitch Miller/marching band LPs that are no longer wanted by anyone anywhere, but Sofla has its own unique spin (PUN) on record rejects. Please to enjoy these I have selected for you whilst imagining the smell of 50 years of dust! Click to enlarge!

I admire this woman's appearance as one I have always aspired to in that go-go girl/Marcia Brady way. But the real win here is the BEST BAND NAME EVER, "Los Angeles Negros."

Does this translate to "The Third Person?" I know I could look it up but I'm too lazy. Anyway, I'm kinda thinking the girl is the same girl with two different wigs on so this makes this concept especially bizarre and intriguing.

Is it just me, or does this guy have a beard that looks like the Batsignal? He is in Gotham City, after all!

I'm having trouble connecting this scenario to accordion music. Or, to anything I've known or heard of.

This bikini babe seems way more interested in the palm tree than in Mario.

I'm trying to work out the visual concept here. "Yeah, ok, let's go to a field with some mountains. Then, let's add a bikini babe in a sheer shirt. And then let's make her stand on what is either a super-modern Lucite chair or a plastic portal to the underworld. Fabuloso!"

You wanna know what my pregnancy exercise program was? OLYMPIC-LEVEL BARFING!

Would I send my kids over to some place called "Birthday House" with a middle-aged-man learning on a Dutch door? Nope, I would not. The twin boys here agree.

I feel like I've put this cover up before. It's entirely possible it's the very same record still in the very same thrift store that I last visited 5 years ago. Let's hear it for the Shipmates of Song!

All I can think about with this one is that women's skirt hemlines used to be strictly dictated each fashion season by some sour people who actually believed this was important.

What, specifically, would make aerobics Jewish?

Our friend Sabra probably would know the answer to the above question, and she would also be able to give you a lengthy tutorial on liquid eyeliner application.

OK, perhaps this could be modified now to "Student Days at USC (Student Fake Rowing Team Songs)"

And finally, I want you to mull over the fashion and hair styles of the Paranas while appreciating their pro-level Sears catalog modeling poses.

BLOG SHMOG, POPTHOMOLOGY IS 11!

2019-03-07T14:29:00.000-08:00

This blog is now as old as a kid who knows more than I do in math. I like to think that I'm skilled in that sort of self-deprecating compliment, while offering you solid quantifying facts for News You Can Use. You are welcome.

I like to make a little post each year to mark this anniversary of my site's birth. Last year, I had all sorts of grand plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary, none of which I managed to fruition. I felt crappy about that but as it's not vital to the planet, I put my frustrated feelings in better perspective. I still would like to do A Thing, or Things relating to this Thing, and I think if I sort that out in my head, it will happen. If not, you can read this until Google Assistant decides to kill Blogger after becoming United States Digital Overlord and new host of Jeopardy.

There won't be a lot of posts here, like in the Good Ol' Days, but what I post will be fun or funny or worth your minute of time, I hope. I do post more (or more of less, you could say) on Instagram and you can follow me there @mariannespellman. If you are DJBizOneMilFollowers4U, a real estate professional working in a city I do not live in, an Influencer who takes endless photos of your own face and/or butt, or a Lifestyle Luxury Travel Mommy Blogger whose casual and effortless elegance is designed to make me FEEL BAD, eff off already though.

For the past 11 years, I've been very happy to have this little place to go to and be creative. If you've landed here once or a thousand times, thank you for your eyeball movements intaking my work and translating it into your brain to contemplate at your leisure. Unless you want to try to complain about my years-old post about Bobby Goldsboro's wretched "Honey," you weirdos.

Please to enjoy this sound! It is the current theme song of Popthomology and I love it.

I MADE YOU 12 MORE VALENTINE'S DAY CARDS (2019)

2019-02-11T18:33:00.000-08:00

(Click on each to enlarge, HON.)