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Tag Archives: Eighties
1983: Operation Able Archer 83 almost ended the world
Seriously, 40 years ago, the world almost ended in a fiery nuclear holocaust. If you want to know even more in great, great depth, I highly recommend the podcast Snafu hosted by Ed Helms. I’ll just give a synopsis. Thanks … Continue reading
RIP Richard Moll
Richard was best known as Bull on Night Court and obviously before (and after) the hit Sitcom, he was often cast is giant bad guys or monsters or somebody intimidating. What fewer people knew, Richard also had a big career as … Continue reading
Day of the Dead
This was George Romero’s lesser known third installment of his Dead movies in which the social commentary isn’t as obvious; Night was racism, Dawn was consumerism and Day I think it’s how much we shouldn’t trust the military? You can tell it was an indie … Continue reading
Posted in Eighties Tutorial, Movies, Streaming
Tagged Eighties, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombies
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1983: US forces “liberate” Grenada
The crap going down between Ukraine and Russia or Israel and Hamas is nothing to what happened 40 years ago. Sure, those two conflicts are ongoing but will they lead to nuclear war? Not easily. What St. Reagan did today … Continue reading
By the Power of Propane!
I tell ya whut! Castle Greyskull is completely powered and heated by clean burnin’, energy efficient Propane. It is abundant in Arternia too. Now if you excuse me, I need to get back to defeatin’ my mortal enemy…no not Skeletor, … Continue reading
Posted in Austintatious, Humor, Pictures, Toys, TV
Tagged Cartoons, Comedy, Eighties, King of the Hill, Nineties
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RIP Dwight Twilley
Dwight wasn’t exactly a huge name in music, probably a contemporary of other names I could list right now in the singer/songwriter vein: Marshall Crenshaw, Graham Parker and Paula Cole. Maybe you recall his biggest hit with the general public, … Continue reading
RIP Suzanne Somers
Quite a bummer to see Suzanne pass. She was definitely one of the pretty women I first noticed as I was morphing into a Tweener! Many will mock her passing as being the spokesperson for the Thighmaster via numerous late-night … Continue reading
Houston Shock Jock Moby died 9/12/23
Moby wasn’t as famous as the other equally boring, homophobic and tedious shock jocks who pollute FM radio nowadays…as FM radio dies. I know his schtick pre-dates Howard Stern, the king of loving his own voice, but was definitely after … Continue reading
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Tagged Arena Rock, Eighties, FM Radio, Houston, Rock
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1983: Dungeons & Dragons debuts on CBS Saturday Mornings
What a dumb (and somewhat brave) move by CBS TV and TSR to go forward with this Saturday-Morning cartoon. Brave? Dumb? It was in the middle of the moronic Satanic Panic so anything associated with D&D, especially a show aired … Continue reading
The King of Comedy
Before he became the grumpy grandpa who bitches about Marvel movies while all he does lately are Mafia flicks, Scorsese used to make other stuff such as this. When it was first released in 1983, it tanked! The movie cost … Continue reading
RIP: Bob Barker
Even I was formulating the easy layup joke every hack comedian was thinking. Bob died successfully without going over 100. What a life he had though! With his career hosting game shows and namely the one he was most associated … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Rights, Aughts, Celebrity Obituary, Comedy, Eighties, Futurama, Game Shows, Nineties, Seventies
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Valley Girl: 40 years later and not as bad as I feared
I remember this movie when it was released in 1983 and it just made me roll my eyes due to its title…Valley Girl. Hollywood was trying to cash in on a dead fad created by Zappa’s 1982 hit single but … Continue reading
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Now I’m catching up on my streaming queue since I ended my monthly Alamo Drafthouse pass; I promise you and them I will be renewing it when money and time allow, aka, when there’s a string of movies close together … Continue reading
Fellow Democrat’s shirt
Obviously, I had to get a picture for a friend who is a huge fan of Toto. Now that I think about it, Dorothy could’ve been funnier if she made Kansas (the band) reference. I’d go with their more pleasant … Continue reading
A birthday gift to myself from Fright Rags #2
In honor of War Games turning 40 along with how well the artist combined the artwork from all those awesome Atari 2600 game boxes…I wanted this! I was never wild about the movie when it was in theaters and I didn’t … Continue reading