“The Phone Call” is my first favorite episode of The Wonder Years. Kevin starts the episode finally (“finally”) over Winnie Cooper. The main reason is that he’s discovered Lisa Berlini, and honestly, who can blame him? He describes her as “The kind of girl you dream about but would never know your name.” Here’s what I feel…
One thing The Wonder Years did well was to show the culture clash between the adults who grew up in the 40s and 50s and their teenage kids in the 60s.
While everyone worldwide was mourning the death of Roger Moore, a smaller subset of Gen-Xers were mourning a loss just as profound for us. The name Lisa Spoonauer might not mean much to 99% of the population, but for those that knew her at Caitlin Bree, she was an important part of our growing up….
Ahhh, 1994. It was a simpler time. O.J. Simpson hadn’t killed anybody, Anna Nicole Smith was alive and still on the happy side of curvy and Leslie Neilsen was still Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad. The makers of Airplane also made the Police Squad! show and movies and they really made the most of…
Automatic for the People was the album that flippd R.E.M. from a college bad that everyone from college liked to a mainstream band that caused people who liked them in college to get confused and angry. 1992 brought us Nevrmind the debut album from Nirvana which is doubtless the more important of the two, but…
Just drink these in. Henry Rollins looks like a baby! And is that Vlade Divac? We ruled. Seriously.
When I was a kid I played Mattel Electronic Football and it was awesome. Not as awesome as ELECTRIC football where you put the guys on the vibrating field and watched them spin around in a circle until you turned it off, but still awesome. So when it came up earlier today I started thinking…
