For a couple of years in the early 2000s, I ran a small Sunday morning AM radio show on an upstate NY college campus. I called it Delicious Radio, and…
One Album Wonder : Rudi Vannelli
Virtuoso guitarist Rudi Vannelli died in 1961 of a heart attack, five years after he released his one and only album on Verve Records, 11 tracks under the title Maestro…
Bootleg Gaming : Datafrog Mini Retro 89-in-1
Part of an endless quest for self-imposed miseries to distract from the even-more-crushing miseries of real life is my constant pursuit of terrible little retro video game systems, because there’s…
Never Too Many M.U.S.C.L.E. : The Modern Keshi & the Mystery of the Street Sharks
The MUSCLE figures you loved in the ’80s and ’90s are back… in Street Shark form, for some reason!
Every Batman Explored : Batman #4 (1940)
Batman #4 features a costumed hero who’s barely recognizable as the shrewd crimefighter we know and love.
Ugliest Pogs in the World : The Bottom 40 – Part 2
Pogs are terrible… but they don’t have to be. From the many, many thousands of pogs that were cranked out in the 1990s, a few rise to the top by…
The Importance of Pogs : An Introduction
If you were alive and coherent in the mid-90s, there’s no way that you could have escaped the phenomenon that was Pogs : simple, illustrated cardboard discs, about an inch…
Rocket Men & Adventure Ladies : Classic Pulp Trading Cards
During the simpler days of 5th grade, Star Trek: The Next Generation was the best thing on TV, and it burrowed deep into my brain. That turned into my very…
DC Flixstars : Leaping Tall Buildings
When something is exclusive to Dollar Tree stores, it’s usually good to approach it with trepidation. Dollar Tree is the place where sad crates of Pineapple-Ham soda go to die,…
Every Batman Explored : Batman #3 (1940)
Batman #3 has a cover date of September 1940, or simply, “Fall Issue”. America was about to enter World War II; Captain America didn’t exist yet, nor did Wonder Woman….
Every Batman Explored : Batman #2
If you’re lucky enough to find a copy of Batman #2 in your attic, you’re looking at around an average value of $9000 bucks. A majority of the copies found…
Denver The Last Dinosaur on DVD
At the height of the the ’90s dino-craze, there was Denver. He claimed to be the last, but it was a lie.
