Judy Collins and the children will now trill for you

In case you doubt that the Internet is the greatest invention ever ever ever for realz, I found this song yesterday.

A fragment--a fragment, I tell you--of the lyric popped into my head. I Googled the fragment and . . .

Judy Collins and the Sesame Street kids were singing to me on the beach. She looks the perfect peasant hippie chick in this video---so cool that I can forgive her for mangling "Both Sides Now," which no one but Joni Mitchell should sing anyway.

MMMaybelline corn syrup kisses

Like smearing bathroom-deodorizer-scented corn syrup on your lips. Like the lip glosses of today, but far more viscous and sticky. Highly coveted by the 9-year-old set, though apparently marketed in an now-unnervingly  sexy way. I'm pretty sure none of us kissed anyone other than the family pets with this stuff on.

MMMaybelline Kissing Potion.

Summit candy bar?

In honor of Valentine's Day, I was thinking about chocolate. (I'm a chocoholic, so actually, there's not a day I don't think about chocolate.) But today I try to bring you a chocolate memory that's maybe not so obvious.

Here's a super obscure candy. Anyone remember the SUMMIT candy bar? It looks to be a KitKat with chopped peanuts on top. I do vaguely remember this one. The orange wrapper with the mountain logo is distinctive. Check out the commercial below.

Made by M&M Mars in the early 80s, it lasted just a few years before it was pulled, even after going through a reformulation that promised 30% more chocolate.

Another chocolate bar gone with the wind. Sigh.