80s Baby

Choose Your Own Adventure

You’ve entered a clearing in the woods. A strange light is emanating from a wooden chest in the center of

Last Monday I went to the barber shop to get my hair cut and the televisions in the shop were

I have a soft spot for well made toys. All of the action figures and vehicles from my childhood that

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

I’ve written extensively in the past about my love for malls so today I decided to go in deeper on

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

Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em turns 30 years old today, and it is still the best selling hip hop album

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

Thanks to FCC deregulation in the early 1980s at the behest of Ronald Reagan, the toy market of the 1980s

Mom and dad weren’t suckers, and they certainly didn’t raise one. My parents never fell for the Lunchables trap. Why