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SALUTE YOUR SHORTS, one of the great Nickelodeon shows from the early '90s, is now available for download on Amazon's video on demand and on itunes!!!

This is amazing news for Old School Nickelodeon fans. With Nickelodeon pulling the plug on their "Rewind Collection" on DVD sometime around 2006 (leaving fans in the lurch who were expecting season 3 of THE ADVENTURES OF PETE AND PETE and season 2 of CLARISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL on DVD), I figured we'd never again see another official release of old Nickelodeon shows from the '90s on DVD or otherwise, let alone a release of SALUTE YOUR SHORTS on DVD. I was resigned to getting my Bobby Budnick fix from youtube.

But it turns out Nickelodeon/Viacom is not totally evil. As of March 2010, six episodes of SALUTE YOUR SHORTS are available for download on Amazon and itunes. And... apparently, a lot of old Nick shows have been available as downloads as part of Nickelodeon's "Rewind Collection" on itunes and this has been going on for a couple of years now -- Who knew?! I am obviously out of the loop.

So instead of DVDs, Nick is giving us downloads. Not bad. Not ideal, of course, since I'd love to have the DVDs. But shit, son, this is better than nothing. Also, did you know the show was based on a BOOK?!

Odds and Sods

Old school cool: Retro Candy Boxes! Mmmmmmmmmm! I really want to try the C. Howard Violet Gum because, well, it's violet gum! What the hell is that?!

Question of the Day: Candy cigarettes -- yea or nay?
(answer will be at the bottom)

Stone cold fox: Betty Draper! Mad Men season 3 starts August 16th!!!!!!!

I think I'm going to blog the third season -- recaps/reviews, that sort of thing.

I might never leave the house again: Beatles Rock Band comes out 09-09-09!!!!!

Speaking of candy..... : A friend you can eat! Mmmmmmm..... Ja.

Thing that annoys me: Salute Your Shorts is still not out on dvd

Other Thing that annoys me: The new TCM prime time opening
For some reason they changed the old intro to this new lame-o version. The twinkly music is annoying, the cgi is poorly done, and it's just basically stupid. Why is there a movie being projected onto a huge billboard in a dense urban metropolis??? Won't the huge skyscrapers make it hard to see??? Who wants to watch a movie on a roof??? What does any of this have to do with old movies??? What was so wrong with the old opening???

My new favorite books: Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin! "Winter is coming..." (I'm on the second book of the series, but the first one -- Game of Thrones -- blew my mind)

And now, finally, the answer to the Question of the Day:

Yea.

(With candy cigarettes you get all the benefits of cigarettes (i.e.: you get to look cool with a white stick dangling out of your mouth; you get to have something to occupy your hands and mouth that looks sophisticated and suitably retro; you can roll the pack up in the sleeve of your white t-shirt greaser-style; etc.) but with none of the cancerous side effects. The only drawback is that you can't blow cool smoke rings with candy cigs. Smoke rings are cool. But, on the plus side, they taste like candy and not like an ash tray.)

Faygo pop flavor of the week: 60/40