all for a good cause

Doesn't it just warm your heart?

Bing Crosby - Dear Hearts and Gentle People (from The Definitive Collection, 2006) - A song that just screams out for ironic appropriation (see also the recently unveiled Fallout 3 trailer), especially in light of some of the allegations made about Der Bingle's domestic life.

The Breeders - Happiness is a Warm Gun (from Pod, 1990) - Only a Boston-based alt-rock side project could be this precise.

feels so right it can't be wrong

Here's a look into the happier days of the Marvel Universe, as drawn by the late, great Dave Cockrum for a 1978 issue of Pizzazz Magazine...

Unfortunately for Ol' Jade Jaws, it doesn't matter how many gamma rays one has been belted with, there's no competing with Burt Reynolds's dark forest of chest hair and roguish grin.

It's hard to explaining to the post-Fonz generation just how huge a phenomenon Happy Days was with kids back in the day. Seen today, outside of the historical context, the show comes off as a typical hackneyed 70's sitcom (complete with canned catchphrases and a requisite "cool" character able to warp plot logic though the power of pandering to the audience's affections).

In the late 70's, though, it was a religion, practiced in playgrounds and lunch rooms across the nation by Garanimalistic or OshKosh B'Goshed child acolytes who recounted, discussed, and acted out scenes from the most recent installment of the faux-retro scripture. The Mallachi brothers (featuring former Sidehacker Michael Pataki) ...the fire at Arnold's... the Fonz on waterskis episode that spawned the term "jump the shark"...fucking Chachi for chrissakes... were all the subject of much nail-biting speculation and wonder.

It seems so quaint (and embarrassing) in retrospect, but it was the type of viewer-targeted submission hold that studio execs and television producers would sacrifice their first born children to replicate.

Dinah Shore - It Had to Be You (from Holding Hands at Midnight, 1955) - Because no one else but Stroker Ace would do.

Nuclear Assault - Happy Days (from the Good Times Bad Times NA EP, 1988; collected on Assault & Battery, 1997) - Because I need something soothing to act as a counterwight to the fist-pumping aggression I feel whenever I listen to Dinah Shore's music.