{"id":17461,"date":"2010-06-20T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2010-06-20T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T19:42:03","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-giant-great-guy-cup-and-matching-music-on-a-great-guy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-giant-great-guy-cup-and-matching-music-on-a-great-guy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Giant Great Guy Cup and Matching Music on a Great Guy Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17475\" title=\"great-guy-cup_2243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2243.jpg\" alt=\"great-guy-cup_2243\" width=\"450\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2243.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2243-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>This &#8220;For A Great Guy&#8221; cup is large enough to hold enough steaming brew for Dad to sip and ponder the wonderfulness of fatherhood as exhibited on these astounding LP covers featuring families all fluffed and coiffed for their musical debuts.&nbsp; I thank the following families for looking and dressing so good as to commemorate Dad&#8217;s magnificent power to pop out the little ones who support their fathers no matter how misguided their appearance decisions may be.<\/p>\n<p>On this LP cover Dad can feel like it&#8217;s Christmas all year round when he wears his new robins egg blue polyester jacket and whatever&#8217;s in that box. My only wish is that he had more hair so he could have the same flat-as-a-landing-strip haircut his son does.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17469\" title=\"moms and dads\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/moms-and-dads.jpg\" alt=\"moms and dads\" width=\"500\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/moms-and-dads.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/moms-and-dads-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/moms-and-dads-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to see the lavender-tinged Gill family celebrating Dad by wearing matching napkins around their neck. Dad&#8217;s haircut seems to have inspired all the male Gills except Junior down on the right.&nbsp; I give him til he&#8217;s 12.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17465\" title=\"gill fam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gill-fam.jpg\" alt=\"gill fam\" width=\"449\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gill-fam.jpg 449w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gill-fam-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gill-fam-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/>\n<p>Wow, Dad&#8217;s growth hormones definitely worked on the vertical plane.&nbsp; And mom spent all her afternoons studying the Kennedy women in Life Magazine.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17467\" title=\"god calledme to sing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/god-calledme-to-sing.jpg\" alt=\"god calledme to sing\" width=\"450\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/god-calledme-to-sing.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/god-calledme-to-sing-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>The entire Einert family has excellent head shapes for the follicular style that atops them.&nbsp; Mommy\u2019s hair looks like Jiffy Pop and Bill and Jim\u2019s ties look like they\u2019re made from a tablecloth. I\u2019m serious. Where\u2019s the knot? And why are the Einerts so happy if, in fact, God is slipping away?<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17463\" title=\"bill mary ji,\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bill-mary-ji.jpg\" alt=\"bill mary ji,\" width=\"450\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bill-mary-ji.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bill-mary-ji-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>Not at all sure what happened to Daddy here other than he had the good sense to be photographed in front of a fake brick wall.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17471\" title=\"soemting happened to dad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/soemting-happened-to-dad.jpg\" alt=\"soemting happened to dad\" width=\"421\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/soemting-happened-to-dad.jpg 421w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/soemting-happened-to-dad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/soemting-happened-to-dad-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/>\n<p>Happy Father&#8217;s Day to all the sharp dressed men with matching families out there and may you all be sipping something special out of a ginormous Great Guy cup.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17479\" title=\"great-guy-cup_2246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2246.jpg\" alt=\"great-guy-cup_2246\" width=\"429\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2246.jpg 429w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2246-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17481\" title=\"great-guy-cup_2247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2247.jpg\" alt=\"great-guy-cup_2247\" width=\"566\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2247.jpg 566w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/great-guy-cup_2247-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;For A Great Guy&#8221; cup is large enough to hold enough steaming brew for Dad to sip and ponder the wonderfulness of fatherhood as exhibited on these astounding LP covers featuring families all fluffed and coiffed for their musical debuts.&nbsp; I thank the following families for looking and dressing so good as to commemorate &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-giant-great-guy-cup-and-matching-music-on-a-great-guy-day\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501,1051,359,223,87,193,213,13],"tags":[61,1525,365,173,1529,1521,3232,3245,1527,1533,1523,1531],"class_list":["post-17461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families","category-fashion","category-hair","category-holidays","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-lps","category-music","tag-allee-willis","tag-bill","tag-cheesy-albums","tag-cheesy-lp","tag-god-called-me-to-sing","tag-great-guy-cup","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-mary-jim-inert","tag-merry-christmas-with-the-moms-and-dads","tag-something-happened-to-dad","tag-the-gill-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}