The 80’s: I was born in them. And to celebrate my birthday tomorrow (I’m going to be older than whatever came before dirt, unless you’re older than me, in which we’re still spring chickens, 120 is the new 30!), here’s a video of a bunch of tasty 80’s jams (including

This is a coverage take for Weird Al Yankovic’s music video for ‘Eat It’. What’s a coverage take? Let me copy/paste that for you while I, inspired by the video, pound two boxes of Girl Scout Cookies for breakfast: Basically this is a take where the director just points the

This is a video of a young Björk Guðmundsdóttir singing ‘Cork The Bitch’s Arse’ as lead singer of punk band Tappi Tíkarrass during a 1982 performance at the Western Melavellinum in Reykjavík, Iceland. She really is a joy to watch on stage — such a presence. Unrelated but also kinda

Nostalgia: I remember playing Warcraft II PvP over a 56k modem with friends in high school. I’d purposefully pick up the phone if they were going to beat me. This is a video of Youtuber Gough Lui connecting to the internet 90’s style via an period-appropriate PC (with Intel Pentium

The Meat Loaf has left the building. I remember listening to Bat Out Of Hell regularly growing up because my dad had it on a CD in the six-disc changer in the trunk of the Lincoln Town Car. I wasn’t particularly in love with it all at the time (although

This is a full concert video from 1989 of Nirvana opening for fellow Washington-based grunge rock band Tad at Fahrenheit in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. This was after the release of Nirvana’s first studio album Bleach, but obviously prior to the band’s 1991 Nevermind and subsequent mainstream success. It also features Chad

After garnering enough interest for production consideration on the LEGO Ideas website, LEGO is releasing an official Sonic The Hedgehog Green Hill Zone playset (links to LEGO product site) on January 1st to start the new year running(!). This is that playset. Featuring a respectable 1,125 pieces, the $70 set

This is some archival footage from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), featuring a 1985 news segment of skiers versus snowboarders. According to the quintessential 1980’s ski patroller seen above: “Quite a lot of them are uncooperative. Some of them had a little bit to drink and, uh, smart alecks. You