This chair really went all in on the peacock theme. The blue velvet and huge feather-like backrest make it look more like a piece of art than furniture.
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified young woman with glasses. gloves and a shawl, holding a cased image of her grandmother. Photographed in 1846.
"All signs point to us being sucked into a black hole."
"I don't wanna be sucked into a black hole!"
Quark (1977) was a really fun show, but maybe it came out at the wrong time. Buck Henry created it as a loving sci-fi spoof, and it's gentle oddball comedy that plays with Star Trek in a fun way. It only made it to eight episodes before NBC canned it but it still has a loyal fan base.
Richard Benjamin is Quark, commanding a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol ship which of course gets into several scrapes that frequently echo Star Trek plots. Tricia and Cyb Barnstable are The Bettys (one is a clone of the other but neither will admit to being the clone), Richard Kelton is the Spock-like sentient plant Ficus, there's a male/female engineer called Gene/Jean, their boss Palindrome reports to a massive floating head, etc.
Not everyone is a fan of laff tracks, and some of the gags go nowhere, but it's entertaining and silly and captures the sometimes oddball '70s look of TV science fiction (I'm looking at you here The Fantastic Journey!) The Bettys wouldn't be out of place in Buck Rogers two years later.
"No Sleep till Brooklyn" was the sixth single from Licensed to Ill(1986). Featuring a guitar solo by Slayer’s Kerry King, the track became one of the Beastie Boys’ signature songs and an early rap-rock landmark. Its title and lyrics reflect the exhaustion of life on the road and the group’s determination to make it back home to Brooklyn, while also nodding to Motörhead’s No Sleep ’til Hammersmith. The video, built as a tongue-in-cheek parody of 1980s glam-metal excess, helped turn the song into one of the band’s most memorable early hits.