Back…. TO THE FUTURE*

*Not to be confused with Mack to the Future, my too-good-to-be-true blog with the too-good-to-be-true Aubrey.

Turns out I’m not the only person on the internet obsessed with old things — who knew?! My boo Liz just sent me this amazing blog Paleo-Future, where this guy basically collects documents of crazy predictions about the future people had back in the day, such as this 1899 depiction of one of our many possible activities in the year 2000:

Pretty creepy that someone all the way back in the Belle Epoche managed to draw such an accurate portrait of my Sunday morning routine, no? If these air hunters were also carrying bacon, bucketfulls of Stumptown, and the Sunday Times, I’d probably have to enlist myself in the witness protection program.

Insert cat Pun here

Since apparently cats are hella trendy now (amazing), I think it’s time people rallied around my favorite underrated live-action Disney movie, That Darn Cat. Like everything else worthwhile in my life I re-discovered this gem via YouTube, and I think this particular clip is representative of everything that’s perfect about this movie, and everything I liked about it that pointed to me being the cat lady that I am today. Also, how dreamy is Dean Jones as Agent Zeke Kelso, FBI? A total proto-Fox Mulder, if a little less sassy (and spooky):

Let’s not even speak of the awful 1997 remake starring Christina Ricci and Doug E. Doug. It will be easier this way.

Call it a Comeback

As you may or may not have noticed, I’ve stepped off of this blog recently. As much as I like the idea that anything and everything I could think of to post is endlessly fascinating to the public… this is probably not all that accurate.

So, I took some time off from hucking unrelated thoughts into the void of the blogosphere. But scrolling through what little I have put on here, the majority of which is made up of rando kitschy internet finds, I realized that my favorite way to use the internet is as a kind of archive. Here’s where it’s time to let my geek flag fly: the fact that documents, information, videos, and music that you would have had to  either dig up in a media library or behind a case of Bud in your uncle’s basement are now immediately available is pretty amazing, and still a total novelty to me. Example time!

When I went to look up this adorable song that I just remembered existed, YouTube graced me not just with the song itself, but with a sketchy-looking live performance:

And an even sketchier remix that the user just describes as “BEST. SONG. EVER.”:

Everything a girl could ever want, clearly. Moral of the story: I’m actually going to start putting stuff here again, all of which will be old and weird. Get into it!