20 July 1943 - 26 February 2009
Not being British, I guess I’m not as familiar with Wendy Richard’s work as many of those across the pond. However, I will say that I’ve been watching Are You Being Served? since I was too young to know Mr. Humphries was gay.
Thanks to PBS, I can’t name [...]
I’m sure many of you have seen these unintentionally hilarious comic book panels. To our modern, cynical, sardonic, sarcastic and jaded minds these are a riot!
I’m not going to attempt to explain that last one. You either get it or you don’t. (swiped from RetroLife)
Now, let’s see how your modern psychobabble steeped mind interprets [...]
You may have noticed a few ads here and there on Retrospace. Trust me, I’m not dumb enough to think blogging is going to somehow yield vast riches. No, the ads are there more as an exercise in self deception- if I can even earn a nickle, maybe then I can rationalize the time [...]
Man, when I was in junior high, I was big time into Dungeons & Dragons. I had dozens of modules, miniatures, dice galore, and basically every book from The Dungeon Masters Guide to The Monster Manual. Although I don’t recall any girls playing it, I don’t remember it being a “geeks only” business either. Whatever [...]
Cool-mo-dee recently turned me on to the Obamicon site where you can easily take any picture and turn it into the iconic Obama poster. I have to confess that I got carried away and started trying it with pictures of everything from Tusken Raiders to Isaac on The Love Boat.
Of course, there’s really no limit [...]
I won’t rant on and on in this installment. Instead, I’ll just throw out one word:
MELISMAThis is when pop diva wannabes sing sixty notes for a single syllable - it’s octave showboating and a form of auditory abuse. It’s on display with basically every American Idol contestant and almost every pop/hip-hop/R&B song on the radio.
Message [...]
Some musical acts from the 1970s transitioned nicely into the 1980s - Hall & Oates, Aerosmith and Prince found their niche in this new decade and flourished. Others… well, let’s just say things didn’t work out too well.
For example, if you were in a stanky booger nosed funk band, you had a choice: get [...]
I recently posted on old school D&D, so I’m still ruminating on the memories. I wonder if anyone can tell me the name of this module from back in the day?
We’re talkin’ 1980 here, so only D&D geezers will probably remember this one from nearly thirty years back.
Leave your answer in the comments section. Be [...]
…by Howard K. Smith in his 1960 “documentary” about the beat revolution. Go here for more.
Kerouac resided in Northport, L.I., from 1958 to 1964. George Harris went there last year with a video camera and gives us a 5-minute video tour of the two with a Jack p.o.v. Go here for more info and links.