The 80s August 20, 2009

The child abduction rap is educational

If I had a dollar for every time some stranger attempted to abduct me and/or pick me up like a bowling ball, I would have had enough money to run away from home and avoid all those problems in the first place. Kind of a paradox, really. But I didn't have this important 80s rap song about "stranger

The 80s July 8, 2009

Canada is good at the Internet

I think my favorite thing is old videos that were made entirely seriously but now take on a parody-ish type of tone. See, for example, this CBC (Canada) news report from the late 80s about the new “Internet.”

I think this video stands on its own as hilarious, but

The 80s March 16, 2009

Reminder: The 80s sucked worse than you recall

I mentioned this recently but it bears repeating…people have this sort of wistful look at the 80s like it was good. All it really gave us was AIDS and Muppets. For example, check out this awful scene from the movie Teen Witch.

It really brings to mind that being

The 80s October 10, 2008

The 7 most delightfully perverse toy commercials

As a child, there’s so much that goes over your head. For example, look at these seven commercials that you might not think much of as a kid that now seem a little, shall we say, off.