Guest Post – 80s Baby

Sax Playing Bodybuilders and Other Inexplicable 80s and 90s Characters That Were Treated as Totally Normal

Hello, and welcome (or welcome back) to 80s Baby! After recently releasing a book I’ve been inspired to start writing

I wasn’t raised with stringent gender norms. I was never limited in my activities to things that were “acceptable” for

“The girl of my dreams is a vegetable!” In 1978, a future California state senator and his friends wrote and

Today is the first anniversary of launching 80s Baby. To celebrate, I’d like to highlight some of my favorite articles

“Hi, I’m Chucky, and I’m your friend till the end. Hidey-ho!” In 1988, a young boy who could read a

Welcome to Noise Machine, a segment where I, Alex Fleming, dive deep into the question, “Is the unlistenable music from

By the mid-1990s cable hadn’t yet completely changed the way people consume television, and Saturday Night Live still held sway when

(I co-hosted a podcast called 1994 and oddly enough Tammy and the T-Rex never came up. Longtime supporter and friend

(Alex Fleming is back with a new series! Check out his previous article on Baldur’s Gate here. -Ed.) Welcome to

“You wanna know what happens to an eyeball when it gets punctured? Do you got any idea how much blood