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The slogan, "I don't drink. I don't dance. I hate astrology. I have no phone." is related to an art piece by Josh Fraught from his exhibition Longtime Companion. The exhibition was to meant to capture a moment in the mid-1980's to early 1990's surrounding the representational politics of AIDS. Using these words, Fraught tried to reimagine feelings and words as personal outpourings, a way for the socially marginalized to find one another. 

Fraught is a San Francisco based artist that works with textiles. His work uses slogans, jokes, fabrics and various colors to bring his work to museums like San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and more.

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“Human Be-Ins" are events modelled after the original "Be-In" called the "The Gathering of Tribes for a Human Be-In" that was held in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, on January 14th, 1967. That Be-In featured all the iconic luminaries of psychedelic counter-culture, including Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Dick Gregory, Lenore Kandel, and Jerry Ruben. Here are some footage of the event: http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/rare-footage-of-human-be-in.html. 

The "Be-In" events are often accompanied with meditation, music, beat poetry readings, and use of psychedelic drugs and are based in humanist values. The term "Human Be-In" was coined from a chance remark by artist Michael Bowen at the Love Pageant Rally.

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This button was created by the Russ Berrie & Company Inc. which was founded in 1963 by a toy salesman named Russ Berrie. The company sold "impulse" items such as, mugs, small figurines, stuffed animals, greeting cards, and various other home accessories. The company's brands included: RUSS, Applause, Sassy, and Kids Line. In 1964, Berrie created his first line of manufactured novelty items. The first was a line of stuffed animals called Fuzzy Wuzzies and the second was a line of rubber dolls called the Bupkis Family. In 1992 one of the companies oldest product, trolls, spiked in popularity due to wild demand. In 2009 the company changed its corporate name to Kid Brands, Inc. and as of April 2011 The Russ Companies no longer exist as an entity.

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Harvey Wallbanger is a cocktail made from vodka or gin, orange juice, and Galliano. It is known as an essential drink of the late ’70s disco and fern-bar era. The cocktail was allegedly created in a Sunset Boulevard bar in Los Angeles and was inspired by a Californian surfer named Harvey, who liked to drink Screwdrivers spiked with Galliano liqueur. One day, after binging on his favorite drink after a particularly bad day, he walked smack into the wall as he was heading out of the bar, hence the name “the Wallbanger.” George Bednar, a college football player and marketing director, launched the "Harvey Wallbanger" mixed drink to a national audience, giving the Wallbanger character and the tag line -- "My name is Harvey Wallbanger and I can be made." Today, the drink still connotes a sense of grooviness and funkiness. The button is most likely created in the 70s or early 80s to both promote the drink and convey a sense of humor--suggesting people to "take it easy" after a long hard day.

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Fruit Cake is a type of dessert that is usually aged and contains suspended jellied fruits. It used to be something that only the rich could afford to eat because fruit was expensive. This also made fruit cake seem like a prized gift as many homemakers knew the cost and time required to make it. As time went on and fruit became less expensive, fruit cake became more common and the distaste for the dessert grew.

Johnny Carson said, “The worst Christmas gift is fruitcake… There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other, year after year."

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