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Author: Laurel Zito

I was born in 1965 in San Francisco, and moved to the Midwest where I am spending my Golden Years helping the Environment.

Time For Timer

Time For Timer PSAs. In the 70’s along with junk food commercials on TV there were also health food PSAs. Cheaper foods with low quality were passed off to children who were willing to eat them.

Laurel Zito 70s music, The 70s, TV Shows and Movies Leave a comment December 30, 2020 4 Minutes

He Who Dies Last Wins

Book Review Michael Kinsey on Competitive Longevity and Parkinson's Disease

Laurel Zito Book Reviews Leave a comment December 26, 2020March 26, 2021 5 Minutes

Salt Dough Art

Salt Dough projects from the 70's

Laurel Zito Art and Craft Leave a comment December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 1 Minute

Spill The Wine

Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon and War may be one of the best Psychedelic Era songs of all time. But by 1970 the hippy thing was not working anymore.

Laurel Zito 70s music, music Leave a comment December 24, 2020December 24, 2020 1 Minute

WPOD

I breakdown the song “White Punks On Dope” by the Tubes which came out in 1975. Affectionately known as WPOD some kids wanted to be that.

Laurel Zito 70s music, Internet Culture Leave a comment December 22, 2020December 25, 2020 5 Minutes

Hello Kitty Land

Discussion of the Hello Kitty Sanrio Brand and the corresponding theme park in Japan.

Laurel Zito The 70s Leave a comment December 22, 2020 1 Minute

Triki Miki Dawn Clone

Triki Miki was a Dawn Clone Produced by Uneeda. Dinah Mite was a clone of Triki made by Mego. Both of these were jumpsuit dolls.

Laurel Zito dolls, The 70s Leave a comment December 16, 2020April 6, 2021 4 Minutes

Madonna

I look at what went wrong with Madonna’s Career in my opinion.

Laurel Zito music Leave a comment December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 2 Minutes

Candy Spelling Dolls Blog

Candy Spelling's collection of Madame Alexander Dolls was sold at Auction. What can we learn about these dolls?

Laurel Zito dolls, The 70s 2 Comments November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 3 Minutes

GM Dagy Doll

Everything I know about Dagy Dolls. How can you find a Dagy Doll? How much should you pay for her?

Laurel Zito dolls Leave a comment November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 2 Minutes

We need to go to simply short names

Long complicated unusual names are hard to remember if that person were to become missing.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture Leave a comment November 23, 2020November 26, 2020 1 Minute

Taxi Song 1972

“The Ballad of Harry and Sue” or “I’m Flying in my Taxi” was a popular song from 1972. Read about how an archive of 70s stories was created.

Laurel Zito 70s music, Internet Culture, The 70s Leave a comment November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 1 Minute

Lou Reed and Nico

I examine the career of Lou Reed in terms of his best songs. Nico is compared to Adrian in the Movie Liquid Sky.

Laurel Zito 70s music, Blogging, music, The 70s Leave a comment October 24, 2020April 23, 2021 6 Minutes

The Exxon Cartoon Tiger

Tony the Tiger is not the only cartoon tiger, there is also the Exxon Tiger. We examine the use of the Tiger in vintage tv commercials.

Laurel Zito 70s music, The 70s, TV Shows and Movies Leave a comment October 12, 2020October 13, 2020 7 Minutes

Angela King

Angela King was married to Eric Burdon in 1967, she left him for Jimi Hendrix in 1968. 20 years later she was murdered. But who was she really?

Laurel Zito Internet Culture, Literature, music 6 Comments September 17, 2020November 14, 2020 1 Minute

Allison Katzman Deserves More Recognition

Allison Katzman invented the Blythe Doll About Collecting Blythe

Laurel Zito dolls, The 70s Leave a comment September 3, 2020September 12, 2020 4 Minutes

Woodleaf Becomes an Artist

Woodleaf becomes and an artist. Fictional Story

Laurel Zito Fictional Stories Leave a comment September 1, 2020September 18, 2021 5 Minutes

Charles Bukowski

Book Review of Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature 6 Comments August 30, 2020September 25, 2020 2 Minutes

Crybaby Video Utopia Video Meaning

I examine the Utopia Music Video “Crybaby” to see what is going on in this video production. It’s a kind of short movie with actors and outfits based on the Movie Logan’s Run. Please watch the video on You Tube before reading this post.

Laurel Zito music Leave a comment August 22, 2020 3 Minutes

Blind Owl Book Review

Blind Owl died from an overdose on September 3, 1970. He is a member of the 27 Club.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature, music, The 70s Leave a comment August 14, 2020May 1, 2022 2 Minutes

Keeping a Poinsettia Alive

I kept my Poinsettia alive for two years after Christmas. Here are my tips.

Laurel Zito Gardening Leave a comment August 9, 2020July 27, 2021 4 Minutes

Flickr is Where Your Photos Go to Die

Flickr was a brilliant startup that was ruined by big corporate business, because they wanted to throw their weight around and force everyone to pay up.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture Leave a comment July 31, 2020June 18, 2022 2 Minutes

As Needed For Pain Book Review

Who was the Rockstar in As Needed For Pain by Dan Peres? As Needed For Pain is a good book to read if you want to know more about addiction.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Burroughs and Friends Leave a comment June 24, 2020September 4, 2020 3 Minutes

Return To The Origins

We look back at the story of Woodleaf by reviewing it from its humble beginnings. With a nod to Art Hoppe, whose collected works are out of print.

Laurel Zito Fictional Stories Leave a comment May 5, 2020May 1, 2022 4 Minutes

Dumping Trash

Here is a joke flyer that was making the rounds online. I posted part of the text.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture Leave a comment April 30, 2020September 4, 2020 1 Minute

Looking for the Lost White Rabbit Letter

Who was the White Rabbit and what does this information mean?

Laurel Zito Internet Culture, The 70s 3 Comments April 27, 2020October 9, 2020 6 Minutes

Searching for Vanity

My search for egg cartoon art created by Vanity the singer.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture, Modern Art, music, The 70s Leave a comment April 19, 2020September 4, 2020 4 Minutes

Why not fill out the Census

2020 Census Commercials are misleading. What happens if you don’t fill out the Census. How to view the 1940 Census.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture Leave a comment April 17, 2020September 4, 2020 5 Minutes

Shade Loving Plants

About Buttercup Ivy, Hostas, Coral Bells, Coleus, and Begonias.

Laurel Zito Gardening Leave a comment April 8, 2020April 19, 2021 8 Minutes

Woodleaf Doll Story

Woodleaf Story told with Dolls A doll storyboard with movie options

Laurel Zito dolls, Fictional Stories Leave a comment April 6, 2020September 4, 2020 1 Minute

Macy Wrote A Book

Macy wrote a book about Woodleaf

Laurel Zito Fictional Stories Leave a comment March 20, 2020May 1, 2022 1 Minute

The Think Pink Panther Show

The Think Pink Panther Show was another way they mixed the older cartoons around to make them seem like a new show. I was looking for the “Think Pink Panther Show” song and I could not find it Youtube. I thought I remembered the words, but I really don’t very well. Someone else posted other words online, but I don’t remember them that way.

Laurel Zito 70s music, The 70s, TV Shows and Movies 1 Comment March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 1 Minute

Joelle Van Dyne based on Savannah

Was Infinite Jest Character Joelle based in part on Savannah?

Laurel Zito David Foster Wallace, Literature Leave a comment March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 1 Minute

Foghat

What happened to the band Foghat known for the song Slow Ride from 1975.

Laurel Zito 70s music Leave a comment March 8, 2020March 8, 2020 1 Minute

The Vanity Problem

Vanity was really crazy and ruined her life with drugs

Laurel Zito music Leave a comment March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 3 Minutes

Danzig Comics

A funny story happened at Lit Quake. Lit Quake was a collection of writers and artists who would meet the public in arranged events or happenings in San Francisco.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture Leave a comment February 26, 2020May 27, 2020 3 Minutes

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft and The Blue Fugates
The Blue Fugates of Kentucky may have been an inspiration for Lovecraft.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature Leave a comment February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 5 Minutes

Led Zeppelin Rumors

Crazy Led Zeppelin Rumors: Back in the 70s Led Zeppelin was the most popular band in America. But what I knew about them was based on rumors

Laurel Zito 70s music, music Leave a comment February 24, 2020September 4, 2020 2 Minutes

Adam Henderson McNally Mystery

Reader Adam Henderson of McNally’s Mysteries Book Series is hard to find. I listened to him read audio books in the 90s.

Laurel Zito Book Reviews, Literature Leave a comment February 23, 2020September 4, 2020 1 Minute

Days of Our Lives Summaries

Days of Our Lives Summaries random and disorganized organized by date 2020

Laurel Zito Blogging, Days of Our Lives Leave a comment February 7, 2020September 4, 2020 1 Minute

Cracky Poems

Poems about Cracky the Parrot who was Woodleaf's Pet before he was sent to Cambodia

Laurel Zito Fictional Stories, poems Leave a comment January 27, 2020August 3, 2021 1 Minute

John Cale Wikipedia

John Cale is taking up more then his fair share of Wikipedia

Laurel Zito music Leave a comment December 29, 2019September 4, 2020 3 Minutes

The Story of Foursquare

Foursquare Swarm is on the rocks. Read about the April 8, 2021 outage.

Laurel Zito Internet Culture Leave a comment December 23, 2019April 8, 2021 4 Minutes

Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company, but she waited too long to do it.

Laurel Zito Blogging Leave a comment December 22, 2019 1 Minute

I Hate Febreze

What is in Febreze and is it dangerous? Yes Yes Yes

Laurel Zito Blogging, dolls Leave a comment December 13, 2019September 4, 2020 3 Minutes

The Golden Age of Children’s Music

The Golden Age of Children's Music. Out of Print and hard to find records for children.

Laurel Zito 70s music, lost songs, music Leave a comment December 13, 2019September 4, 2020 8 Minutes

Bild Lilli Lalka Dolls

Bild Lilli Lalka Dolls are a mystery. Let us look at what is known about them. Lalka was to have a forbidden outlaw image.

Laurel Zito dolls Leave a comment December 1, 2019September 4, 2020 5 Minutes

Huge In France Review

Short Review of the Netflix Show Huge in France Do not read if you have not seen the show yet on Netflix

Laurel Zito Internet Culture, TV Shows and Movies Leave a comment November 21, 2019September 4, 2020 2 Minutes

Halloween The Trip

Woodleaf wants to go to secretly to Southern California without his wife knowing.

Laurel Zito Fictional Stories Leave a comment October 31, 2019September 4, 2020 5 Minutes

Falco Death

Information about Falco's death and his appearance on MTV as a guest VJ.

Laurel Zito history, music 5 Comments October 16, 2019September 12, 2020 4 Minutes

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