twilight 1985

I had a few con­ver­sa­tions re­cent­ly about wat it was like to be alive dur­ing any part of THE COLD WAR (1947–91).

And I think it’s kind of hard to get across to any­one who wasn’t around at the time the over­all feel­ing of

•  Boast­ful su­per­pow­ers point­ing weapons at each oth­er and we just have to put up with it.

•  Our gov­ern­ment bet­ter know wat the fuck they’re do­ing.

•  Any mo­ment, you’re dead. Just like The So­pra­nos end­ing.

P L U S

•  This Duck and Cov­er thing is NOT go­ing to work. Dur­ing school drills as we’d roll into a ball un­der our desks and at least one kid would say,
“Now I can
kiss my ass
good­bye.”

And I’d won­der if

•  Wes Craven had any thoughts on all this?
 

Thanks to YouTube pro­fil­ing me, I just ran across this old episode of the 1980s TWI­LIGHT ZONE that scared the shit out­ta me then, and I still have a re­ac­tion now –

es­pe­cial­ly with boast­ful su­per­pow­ers to­day play­ing with new world-end­ing weapons.

This was wat 1985 was like,

down to the nu­clear fam­i­ly, hair, clothes, vin­tage cof­feemak­er and crum­my emer­gency broad­cast sys­tem:

Bonus: The not-com­put­er-gen­er­at­ed GRATE­FUL DEAD-scored ti­tle se­quence still hits its mark. Rod Ser­ling was pro­ject­ed on to smoke for his short cameo.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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