The Online Good Ol’ Days
Recently over on Bluesky, a friend posted a picture of a cake made using an ALF-shaped cake pan. In that post, he mentioned that it...
Burger King Universal Monsters Figures
I was way too old to be buying a Burger King Kid’s Meal in 1997 (or so I thought), so these 3.75″ Universal Monster figures...
Animaniacs Trading Cards
I loved Animaniacs. Sure, I was 18 when the show debuted in 1993, but that didn’t stop me from tuning in every afternoon to catch...
Freddy’s Dead 3-D Glasses
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big horror movie fan. I didn’t grow up with horror movies because my parents pretty much banned me from...
The Misterhood of the Traveling Gnome
Back in the late-90s, a friend and co-worker of mine at a web design firm, Steve, created an early shopping cart program. He asked me...
Worlds of Power Books
It seems like getting young boys to read is an eternal struggle for book publishers. They’ve tried many gimmicks, including gamebooks like Choose Your Own...
Going Viral with JTT
The other day I had a little time to kill at work. And I don’t mean that I just didn’t feel like doing my job,...
Animaniacs: The Book That Almost Was
Way back in 2012, I wrote an article for Mental Floss called Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Animaniacs. I worked for about two...
Geto Boys – Mind Playing Tricks On Me Record
The Geto Boys came up out of the Houston hip-hop scene in the mid-80s under the guidance of Rap-A-Lot Records owner, James Prince. The members...