Stuff I’ve Written
Tracing my Plastic Roots: The Toys that Shaped My Adulthood
Me with my Talking Mother Goose, 1987.My working title for this article, which has been collecting dust as an unpublished draft for many years, ...
9 Snobby Foods I Learned About from Watching Movies
As someone who was raised on hot dogs and McNuggets, it wasn't until later in life that I really began to broaden my culinary horizons. Nowadays ...
10 Summer Vacation Survival Tips from ‘The Great Outdoors’
Being a co-host for Cult Film Club and movie buff in general, I always like to usher in the changing seasons with ritual viewings of my favorite ...
My love affair with glass block, as chronicled in movies & TV shows
If you think glass block is just a relic of 80s bathrooms and office lobbies, think again.
This humble architectural element has made some ...
Scope these Super 80s Beach Scopes!
Picture it. Ocean City, Maryland. 1988.
I am at the beach with my family—mom, dad and older sister—our cheap, aluminum beach chairs pitched ...
My Totally 80s Pocket Rockers Collection
If you were one of the lucky kids who had Pocket Rockers in the 80s, you belonged to a very exclusive club of kids who could play their favorite ...
This Valentine’s Day, Let Her Know You’re COOL AS ICE
Few things get me hotter than seeing a shirtless Vanilla Ice frolicking around in the desert; or knocking a girl off her horse as he jumps his ...
Excuse me, are those Bugle Boy jeans you’re wearing?
Is it weird to feel nostalgic about something that you don't really have any business feeling nostalgic about? Like if it's something that was ...
Two TMNT Birthdays, 30 Years Apart
As I woke up this morning, dreading the fact that I was turning 40, I started off the day ignoring the influx of Happy Birthday texts and trying ...
Hi-C: The Box that (Literally) Rocks!
It's not every day you stop by your parents' house to drop off the kids and they randomly hand you a rare artifact from your childhood because ...
Rediscovering MC Skat Kat and the Stray Mob
Despite having an intense nostalgia for all things ‘80s and ‘90s and constantly feeding this addiction in the form of media hoarding, toy ...
Thank you for being a friend…
Picture it. Baltimore. Christmas morning. 2019.
In a world where only one out of four Golden Girls is still alive (in before Betty White ...
I need shoulder pads to go with this amazingly tacky mug
Career women everywhere: celebrate your climb up the corporate ladder with a mug that tells the world, "I know how to type 65 words per ...
I just inherited more vinyl records than I know what to do with.
When my parents told me they wanted to get rid of their vinyl record collection--complete with vintage model turntable--I jumped ...
Bike Dancing and Ass Sliding
Over at Cult Film Club last week, we covered the classic 1986 BMX movie Rad (which, by the way, has managed in just a few days to become one of ...
‘Ping Pong Summer’ makes me miss the Ocean City of the 1980s
As someone who's lived my entire life in Baltimore and spent the many summers of my 1980's youth in Ocean City, Maryland, I kind of feel like ...
I need tiny hands to play these mini arcade cabinets…
Sometime last year (in the spring, maybe? honestly, I've been out of the blogging loop so long, I don't remember) friend, fellow blogger & ...
Do you like board games? ANSWER ME, YOU MAGGOTS!
Few things have been able to drag me out of hibernation status, but one of those things is the Nerd Lunch podcast. Specifically Episode #119, in ...
I don’t do yard sales.
This week's League assignment is to write about our most epic yard sale or flea market find ever, and so far there's been a lot of great posts ...
I’ve got Turtle balls!
When I saw a tweet from my pal Dex of AEIOU & Sometimes Why that mentioned "Stuffed Turtle Balls" I thought it sounded like a gross ...
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