Day 231: Henry Thomas Lights Up

originally published August 18, 2012 If you have a weak stomach, you might not want to read today’s article. Maybe flip back a day and read about the wild wackiness of the Golden Girls. This is going to get ugly. Much like alien abductions, unexplained tales of the paranormal, and the wide appeal of Tyler […]

Day 230: 17 Things I Didn’t Know About The Golden Girls

originally published August 17, 2012 Like any red-blooded North American youth in the late 80s, I spent many a Saturday evening watching four retirement-age ladies talk about cheesecake and humping. I saw an episode of The Golden Girls a few weeks ago and it still made me laugh, which is more than I can say […]

Day 229: A Drizzle Of Sap

originally published August 16, 2012 Over the course of the past 229 days, I have Wiki’ed my way through hundreds of European villages. Once I actually paused to pen a kilograph on one of these villages, but that was back on Day #5 when I actually feared I might run out of subject ideas. Today […]

Day 228: The Eagle Has Been Landed. In.

originally published August 15, 2012 Not since Marvin first pointed his ray-gun at Daffy has Mars been such a trending topic in our culture. Grainy photos are plastered all over our 24-hour news cycle, prompting space nuts to swoon and critics to question the point of it all. So what is the point? NASA’s team […]

Day 227: The Hasbro Conspiracy

originally published August 14, 2012 On the surface, Hasbro brings joy and smiles to hundreds of billions of people every second by giving Shortcake to our Strawberry, Action to our Figures, Ladders to our Chutes, and Head to our Mr. Potato. But underneath lies something more insidious, more… well, I don’t want to say evil, […]

Day 226: How Kids In The 70s Slew Computer-Generated Dragons

originally published August 13, 2012 For as long as they have had the ability, people have yearned to escape their drab lives by crafting a more interesting one inside a video game. But imagining yourself as a large yellow circle-portion, munching on white Tylenols whilst being chased by a bunch of ghosts out of a […]

Day 225: Tuned Out By The BBC

originally published August 12, 2012 One incalculable and oft-forgotten benefit of living in North America is our relatively free access to music. Even in my youth, before the internet showed up and turned censorship into a half-hearted punchline, there wasn’t a lot of music getting yanked off the air due to supposed indecency. Over in […]

Day 224: The Internet Strikes Back – The Dancing Gummy Bear

originally published August 11, 2012 I’ll be honest. I knew I’d write a few of these articles about music. I’d hoped I’d either get the chance to pontificate self-indulgently on music I feel the rest of the world should enjoy as much as I do, or maybe if I was lucky I’d unearth a new […]

Day 223: Doc Marty’s Assessment That Everyone Is Insane (Volume 1)

originally published August 10, 2012 Doc Marty here. I’m going to help you understand your emotions, connect with your feelings, spread the spicy mustard of understanding onto the rye bread of your heart, plunking upon it the pastrami of self-acceptance and allowing its greasy self-assurance to coat the inside of your soul. Let’s have a […]

Day 222: The Unlikely Journey Of Candy Barr

originally published August 9, 2012 I try not to write too many articles about living people or the recently deceased. I unwittingly may have embarrassed a NATO fighter pilot by extolling his work as the founder of competitive finger-jousting, and accidentally unearthed a long-standing feud between the surviving members of the Bobby Fuller Four. I’m […]