Super Bowl weekend is upon us and it sure seems like no one outside of Kansas City or Philadelphia fandom is excited for the big game. Unless maybe there’s money on the line. Or maybe the halftime show. Or Tom Brady announcing the game… But the real question is: What has happened to good old-fashioned…
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The first thing that typically comes to mind when hearing the word “keytar” is retro 80s, neon colors, synth-pop and new wave music. But did you know some of the first musicians to sport the keytar were jazz musicians? Well, silly me, I didn’t until I started doing some research! I just automatically assumed if…
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This week, let’s kick it old school. Sit back, wind down for the weekend, and reminisce about life when we listened to music on cassette tapes. Anyone alive during these fabulous decades has at least one life experience they can look back on. Maybe it was a first kiss? What about losing your V-card? Bad…
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In light of the newly released Indiana Jones video game: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, I recently took a trip down memory lane. Back to the 80s, when Atari released the very first. After the hit movie came out, the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom arcade game was released in 1985. The…
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I remember my fair share of giving and receiving gag gifts for Christmas growing up. One member of my family would receive a lump of coal in their stocking (whoever was on the naughty list that year). Or the endless, Russian doll-style, wrap job that led to a single gift taking about 30 minutes to…
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Whether or not you had siblings to fight with, the excitement of opening a brand-new box of cereal just for the prize inside was real. Compare it to the anticipation of running downstairs and seeing presents under the tree Christmas morning. Or the joy of both your parents saying “yes” to you having a sleepover…
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Stellar marketing by Bud Light. Now there’s a sentence reluctantly muttered in recent times. But take us back to the late 1980s, then hell yeah! The year was 1987 and Anheuser-Busch released a Super Bowl commercial for Bud Light. This particular ad featured their new mascot, Spuds MacKenzie: Bud Light’s Original Party Animal. So after…
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This week we’re going back in time to 1983. David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear. Radio Shack is launching computers. (What’s Radio Shack?) And the DeLorean Motor Company rolls out the last DMC-12, also known publicly as the DMC DeLorean. The DMC DeLorean was going to be an economical sports car, with a…
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