Tag Archives: Eighties

Pinball…ahh! Savior of the Universe!

Pinballz finally brought in one of the coolest looking machines from a movie I have often loved! Alamo Drafthouse once called it the new Wizard of Oz for today’s homosexual generation. Probably due to the colors and garish fashion. Who cares! Flash … Continue reading

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RIP Robin Williams

It has been a busy, busy week yet I really wanted to reflect on Robin’s suicide after more thought. The event was a horrible shock and in other ways it wasn’t. Being someone who has also struggled with Depression (I’m managing … Continue reading

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Four great amusements from 1989 is the header

This month’s header is the big tribute to the Summer of 1989, the best Summer I ever had in college. All the lessons I learned and mistakes I made in 1988 were perfected to make 1989 not suck. I did … Continue reading

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Commander Arcturus Rann by Michael Golden

A long-awaited delivery show up in the mail this morning, my personally commissioned piece from Michael Golden! I met him last year at Austin’s WizWorld. Most people know him more for Marvel’s GI Joe comic and as the co-creator of X-Man Rogue. … Continue reading

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RIP Casey Kasem

Casey had been ill for a while so I figured it was only a matter of time before the venerable radio voice would pass away. I hope he had a peaceful ending since the crapstorm with him family is just … Continue reading

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RIP Rik Mayall

It was sad to hear about the passing of Rik. He wasn’t well known in America and I think Drop Dead Fred didn’t help. However, if you watched MTV in the mid-Eighties when their music-video format was losing steam, you probably … Continue reading

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Game over man!

Lego Master Builder Missing Brick (she or he should be labelled one) has a rockin’ Flickr site with the greatest kit-bashing of Aliens. Well, my Lego abilities are pretty unimpressive compared to this person. I wonder if Missing Brick uses software to … Continue reading

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Save v. Idiocy, DC 10

Someone has decided to make a movie of this hilariously erroneous Jack Chick propaganda booklet about the “dangers” of D&D. What I read is the production company is doing it straight. My guess is for ironic purposes because these people aren’t … Continue reading

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Summer of 1983: Wargames

Seems Alamo hasn’t had as much luck with repeating the success of The Summer of 1982 since the choices for 1983 have been rather slim and sadly they’re not being screened closer to their release dates. Only the programming people could … Continue reading

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RIP Bob Hoskins and Al Feldstein

A sad double whammy to lose a couple key figures in humor but the former had his run in drama with respected films like The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, Zulu Dawn and The Cotton Club. So first up is Bob Hoskins. I had read … Continue reading

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Ouch! The E.T.-Atari legend is (mostly) true

To give you an idea about the joke from the back cover of MAD in 1982, that $38 suggested price for one of the worst video games ever made would be $90. I thought the new PS4 and XboxOne stuff jumping … Continue reading

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Gary Numan

I didn’t have my picture taken with Gary because I wanted to be polite to the other autograph seekers at Waterloo Records. Being first in line (for once), I felt obligated to not be that asshole who gobbled up his brief window … Continue reading

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RIP Harold Ramis

The man involved a few of the Eighties’ raunchiest and popular comedies passed away after being ill for a while according to the Guardian. Harold directed the greatest movie involving golf…Caddyshack. Even when you have to sit through the scenes with … Continue reading

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RIP Bob Casale

DeVO is one band I would use a time machine to travel back to see during their prime, namely the New Traditionalists tour. I did get to see them in 2011 which was a make-up date for Fun Fun Fest … Continue reading

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The ultimate mash-up of comics and Eighties tunes

Check out this artist’s take on numerous New Wave/Post Punk/Alt-College acts as key members of the Justice League. Very funny and he did a great job on who he matched with whom. If you poke around the site further, you’ll … Continue reading

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