While we’re all on this nostalgia kick, we might as well see a movie about it. The tagline for the movie 5-25-77 is "Even after 30 years... you never forget your first time." More about the film at IGN.

(via Bits and Pieces)

Unlike the previous "Retro Week" entry, my venture into the archives is not at all poignant or historically significant. In other words, far more in line with the vast majority of our content.

Back in 2005, Jellio stumbled across an exercise in guerrilla marketing and took this photo:

The marketing agency for Degree's In-Action Hero campaign saw the post and sent us an email, asking if we'd like to interview the man in the box. We did.

At the time, we were basically posting stuff to make each other laugh – the same links and pictures we'd have just emailed around before Scaramouch set up the blog. So it felt strange and cool to learn someone – anyone – was reading, even a new media account executive looking to plug his client's deodorant.

Here is a fantastic stop-motion "assrace" made by four high school students.

It's Retro Week at YesButNoButYes. What may seem initially like a bunch of us taking a week off from posting too much (as if), we're really going to be hand selecting stories we've run in the distant past that new readers may not have read before, and we think are worth airing again.

I'm actually going to kick off with a post from a past YBNBY blogger who no longer visits here, as it's probably my single favorite YBNBY story of all time. It's also a very apt one to rerun over Memorial Day weekend. This piece was the point where I realized there was more to YBNBY that just funny porn (although that continues to be our mainstay) This piece made me very proud to be the editor here.

"Big Fat Creative" is an old buddy, who was in the building across the street from the WTC on 9/11. So when the news started to come in of the bombing in London, it hit home pretty hard. That night, he pulled simple highlights from across the blogosphere, and the resulting zeitgeist was very poignant.