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The Incredible Hulk Revisited There was nothing flashy about The Incredible Hulk when it aired on television in the late seventies and early eighties. No billion dollar budgets, no digital effects, no multiverse to keep track of. What it had instead was something far more lasting. Heart. Mood. A sense of wandering loneliness that wrapped itself around every episode like a soft green fog. For a generation of kids who grew up… The Incredible Hulk Revisited
Before Cartoon Network There Was the USA Cartoon Express Long before cable networks built entire empires on animated programming, there was USA’s Cartoon Express, a rolling parade of classic cartoons that quietly became one of the most beloved staples of eighties and early nineties childhood. It didn’t have the flash of Saturday morning lineups or the branding muscle of later cartoon channels. What it had was consistency, comfort, and a library of… Before Cartoon Network There Was the USA Cartoon Express
How AWA Wrestle Rock Became Wrestling’s Favorite Punchline There are wrestling events remembered for greatness, and then there are wrestling events remembered because they were so strange, so chaotic, and so unintentionally funny that they became legends for entirely different reasons. AWA WrestleRock 86 belongs proudly in that second category. It was the American Wrestling Association’s attempt to create a supershow that could compete with WrestleMania… How AWA Wrestle Rock Became Wrestling’s Favorite Punchline
McDonald’s Pizza: A Slice of Fast Food History There are fast food experiments that come and go without anyone noticing, and then there is McDonald’s Pizza, a product that somehow became more famous after it disappeared than it ever was while it existed. For a brief window in the late eighties and early nineties, the world’s biggest burger chain decided it wanted to compete with the local pizza joint. It was a bold idea, maybe even a logical… McDonald’s Pizza: A Slice of Fast Food History
Holiday Inn Holidome: A Lost Landmark of Family Travel There was a time when a hotel stay meant more than a bed and a continental breakfast. For families in the 1970s, 80s, and well into the 90s, it meant stepping into a world of indoor adventure. Holiday Inn called them Holidomes, and for a while, they were the crown jewel of American road travel. These were not just hotels. They were destinations, the kind of places kids talked about for weeks… Holiday Inn Holidome: A Lost Landmark of Family Travel
85th Favorite Album
90125 . Yes. 1983, ATCO. Producer: Trevor Horne Gift, 1983. IN A NUTSHELL – Quintessential glossy 80s rock from 70s Prog Rock kings who somehow manage to cram all the characteristics of Prog (weird song structures, harmonies, virtuosity, bizarre lyrics) into 4 minute pop songs. If I hadn’t played it every day in 1984, it probably wouldn’t make the list! WOULD BE HIGHER IF – I had played it four… View On WordPress
Awesome 80's 10K Recap
There was one good thing from this past Saturday’s Awesome 80s 10K. The cool cassette finisher’s medal. I was really looking forward to this run… this being my first 10K and returning to Pasadena which is such a beautiful city. The drive to the Rose Bowl was a short 3 minutes from my hotel. At 6:45am the crowds were already starting to gather. The 5K and 10K races both sold out a week before… and from the looks of the crowd I knew this would be huge. I skipped packet pickup on Friday and decided to get everything Saturday morning. Everyone else had the same idea in mind. The lines were long and it took about 15 minutes to get through to the front. The shirt… was cool… the shoe bag… super cool. With about an hour to spare, my friend and I decided to walk around and check out all the neat costumes. We saw several rubic cubes, a ghostbuster, a handful of MJs and Madonnas, the Mario Brothers, Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage, and Doc from Back to the Future. It was awesome to see that everyone embraced the theme of the event! It was about 95 degrees when the races finally started at 9am. Yes, hot and humid. Anyway, I’ll leave all the negative comments off of my blog regarding the organization of the race. All I can say is that I hope they learn something from this first race and improve on their future races. I’m just glad that I had carried my own water bottle… there was only one aid station on the course that we passed twice as this was a 2-lap race. If you failed to grab some water on the first lap, you’d have to run another 2.5 miles till you reached the same aid station. Poorly located as a bunch of runners looked completely dehydrated. And, they ran out of water at the end of the race. Seriously, no water for the 10K finishers? All in all, I had a fun time. I ran my 10K in 55:06 #157 out of 1073 runners, with my 5k splits at 26:41 and 28:24 - and my pace at 8:53/mile. I’ve been noticing lately that my pace times are getting faster. I was able to shed a good 20-30 seconds off my training pace. Woohoo!
Beyond the Hit: The Secret Life of B‑Sides Before playlists, before streaming, and before every song an artist recorded was available at the tap of a screen, there was a simple truth about music. Not everything made it onto the front side of a record or cassette. The A‑side was the star of the show, the track chosen to represent the artist, the one pushed to radio, the one expected to sell the single. But tucked behind it was something… Beyond the Hit: The Secret Life of B‑Sides
Awesome 80s PodShort – MTV’s WWF War to Settle the Score (1985)
MTV’s WWF War to Settle the Score (1985) – Michael, Lawrence, Sweet Jimmy D. and the Old School Wrestling Podcast broadcast Live on tape from The Superdome. One week ago before we saw WrestleMania we recorded our recollections of the 1985 build up of the feud between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper on MTV. We discuss Cyndi Lauper and her father Lou Albano, sometimes things can be complicated. We also get random information from an older gentleman in the crowd. PodShort – MTV’s WWF War to Settle the Score (1985)
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