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Those Lights Were Bright on Broadway
In the liner notes to his live album Songs in the Attic, Billy Joel writes that the performance of “Miami 2017 (I’ve Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway” “demands the gothic reverberation of a vast...
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Fizzy Fuzzy Memories
So I’ve relived my experience with Coke II and it really made me remember one of the things I love about writing this blog–digging up those odd, random things in the culture that I remember and poking...
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When Clothes Shopping Became Cool
The Kids R Us in the Nassau Mall in Levittown, NY. Image from siteride on Flickr. Based on the commercials from the decade, I wonder if today’s youth is under the impression that the 1980s were just...
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Somewhere Else: Roy Rogers
A quick note: This was originally written in December 2002 on my old site “Inane Crap” as part of an occasional series called “Somewhere Else”, which detailed random road trips and travels. Since I...
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Raiders!, Teen Movie Dreams and The Legend of Kung Fool
I can’t get the image of Eric Zala begging his boss for another day off out of my head. It happens about two-thirds of the way through 2015’s Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made,...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 113: Taped Off the Radio
This time around, I’m back to looking at my history with music by going deep into the early 1990s and my early teens, recollecting those nights I spent in my room listening to the radio and rushing to...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 120: When It Was Fun
In 1996, the Sayville, NY-based punk band Wasted Time released their only album, “When It Was Fun.” To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the CD’s release, I’m interviewing the lead singer (and one of...
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School-Aged Showoffs
So I’m sitting here on the second snow day of a week where I was supposed to return to teaching after a two-week winter break. I’m not exactly upset or stressed about any of that, to be honest,...
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So if you’ve been watching enough of the Paris Olympics, you’ve seen enough footage of Parisian life and culture and you’ve inevitably heard the “Can-Can.” I think it was used in the opening...
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A Last Point in Elementary School
I wish I could have some profound way of starting this essay or even something or someone to tie it together, but the truth is that last week, I fell down one of hte more random Internet rabbit holes....
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