Wrestling legend Captain Lou Albano passed away today at the age of 76. (Non-Wrestlemaniacs might remember him as Cyndi Lauper's dad in her video for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" -- she also wrote the foreword to his autobiography, released last year.)

I might just have to stick a mournful rubber band or two on my face for the rest of the day...

UPDATE: Since the original video of NRBQ rocking out with their former manager Capt. Lou was taken off YouTube, here's another good sampler: an interview with Greg "The Hammer" Valentine by Mean Gene Okerlund. Nobody could rock a beer gut quite like Captain Lou.

Or Nick the Giant.
Either way, it's just strange.

via buzzfeed

When a squirrel wants food, it will find a way to get food.
If you have a bird feeder, or a loose top on your garbage can, you know this already.

Buggers!

Well back in 2007, a guy named Brian and his friends decided to put squirrel tenacity to the test. They created an obstacle course for their neighborhood nut-lovers. They started enticing them with peanuts on a simple platform.

Each day it would get more complicated. The humans made the course tougher, adding ropes, tubes and swings.

Each day the squirrels would rise to the challenge, navigate the course and get their peanut snack.

Eventually the course filled a back yard. It became a double diamond for the bushy tailed critters.

Think squirrel Mission Impossible, or that laser dance scene from Ocean's 12.

So when the the crazy course was finished and the last obstacle in this maze was added, could the squirrels do it?

Just watch and enjoy...

See the whole story of Brian and the squirrels here.

The song is just as retro as the game, from back in the days when cleverness counted in a rap song.

Old porn stars were like a theater collective. A group of artists dedicated to the work and craft of boner films. A group of young performers coming together to make the dirty movies of their dreams. Out of these small troupes, stars emerged as bright as any old Hollywood ever produced. Marilyn Chambers, Seka, John Holmes, Ron Jeremy; larger than life figures who made putting on a filthy raincoat and going to a dingy theater feel like a real night out. Who couldn't help but be swept up in the glamor and glitz behind the red door?

We understand that feeling here at YBNBY. We've certainly done our share of nostalgic posts on the subject, as the links list below will tell you. At the same time, I started laughing at myself because of the curmudgeon stereotype. "Things were better in my day! People took pride in their work! Craftsmanship has gone to hell in a hand basket! They don't make stuff like that no more! All you see is crap!"

I suppose we all reach the age where that comes natural sooner or later. For more porn nostalgia, see:

Pioneers of Striptease

Legendary Ladies of Burlesque

Where Are They Now: Debbie Does Dallas

Where Are They Now: Porn Stars of the 70s and 80s

Where Are They Now -Requested Porn Stars

Where Are They Now: Porn Stars Volume Three

Where Are They Now -Porn Stars IV

I consider myself at least a moderate Beatlemaniac, and I'd actually never seen this before - the Fab Four performing part of A Midsummer Night's Dream for a skit on a 1964 British TV program. Er, programme. Pretty cool.

Wonder if any of this imagery will show up in The Beatles: Rock Band next month....

[via Shannon, via Orlando Shakespeare Theater]

Thomas Jefferson intended for the Declaration of Independence to be performed, not just read.
He believed the public reading and performance of this manifesto would be the ultimate act of defiance.

A few years ago his wish came true with this 14 minute video. The reading begins at about 4:45.

Take it away Morgan Freeman and fellow famous folks...

Happy 4th to you and yours.

Link

80s songs played in the style of ragtime.
Enjoy.

They only one I don't recognize is the first one. Help please?

Thanks SpikedHumor

What happened?

If you're like me then somewhere between breakfast and lunch, then between lunch and dinner, and again after dinner, you crave something sweet.

More often than not, I give in.

The result is that I've started packing on the pounds.
And I hate having a gut.

But over the last few weeks I've got a new habit that's stopped my snacking cold.

I started smoking.

If you're concerned about your weight, I urge you to start too.

"Bettie Page captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," said Roesler, chairman of the Indianapolis-based CMG Worldwide, who was at Page's side when she died. "She was a dear friend and a special client and one of the most beautiful and influential women of the 20th century."

A religious woman in her later life, Page was mystified by her influence on modern popular culture. "I have no idea why I'm the only model who has had so much fame so long after quitting work," she said in an interview with The Times in 2006.

She had one request for that interview: that her face not be photographed.

"I want to be remembered," she said, "as I was when I was young and in my golden times. . . . I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people's perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form."

Betty Page died Thursday night of complications from a heart attack she suffered on December 2nd. She was 85.

It's curious how some minor fault may alter a person's life. Take the case of Miss Nickerson.

If you live in New York, you may have seen Miss Nickerson walking up Park Avenue. A little woman in her late forties, with a streak of grey or two in her black hair, and suggestions of a double chin. You would realize that once she must have been very beautiful. With her are two Pekinese dogs - always. Their pictures, with Miss Nickerson, frequently appear in the rotogravure sections.

People say that Miss Nickerson makes a fool of herself about them, that she acts downright silly. Having them sit at the table with her while she dines, for example. Putting each on in his little French bed. Sending them out for an airing in her car, jacketed as well an certainly more beautifully then children. Talking baby talk of the most banal kind to them.

This skit from an mid-80s Christmas special is still funny some 20 years later.
Just not in the same way.

Before Band Aid, Live Aid, We Are The World and a Chemical Brothers song with the same name, there was mega producer Robert Evans celebrity-centric fight against drugs.

He called it Get High On Yourself and back in 1981 NBC, the least watched network at the time, spent a whole week promoting it.

Twenty seven years after it premiered, we finally decided to write about it.