Mm. Bananas. I would definitely have called you back.

We had Cutco work its way through a circle of friends a while back. We fell for the "just let me practice my presentation" thing twice. The worst is the moment they ask you to call up other friends and introduce them right then and there. No. I can only be guilted so far, and that turns out to be just to the point of…

Yes, terrible title. And this is one biopic that needs to be done with lip-syncing, right?

Yay! I love Roy! First celebrity death that really affected me; I'd really gotten into him during his resurgence.

Yeah, I often marvel at how much of the previous generations' pop culture we knew about because we had so few other options.

I think Conan showed us all how best to deal with camels.
http://youtu.be/S7tOWoDVQLU

Hawmps is the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this. I feel like I must have seen it about a zillion times at various Boy Scout camps when I was a kid (which probably means twice) and it was in heavy rotation on HBO when we got it in '84 or so. It's funny—in my memory all the guys from F Troop are in it;…

Quad Cities USA,
Growing stronger every day.
Quad Cities you're the place I want to be…
I want to be!

I worked in a bookstore and I can assure you that we had numerous customers coming in looking for more information on the Blair Witch and wondering what was wrong with our books on witches/witchcraft because there was no mention of the witch in them. None of them took kindly to the suggestion that perhaps the…

Thanks for the enthusiastic recommendation! And the use of juvenalia!

Thank you!

Thank you too! I do hate homework.

Thanks! Just what I was looking for!

That was my first thought too, that this is just the sort of article I would have expected around Olympics time from the AV Club (or, better yet, the Dissolve). Now I feel old and sad.

Wow, 1996 Week is hitting close to home for me. It's also making me realize how lucky I was to be working as the receiving manager at a bookstore whose music manager 1) refused to play any of the promos we received that weren't classical or showtunes and 2) thought I was cute so let me have my pick of the rest. That's…

You have made my day! Thank you!

Yes! Those crosswords were the best. Smart, snarky, and a little profane. After I moved away from the Twin Cities (which had a print edition for a while) a friend would save them for me. I just recently found two I hadn't done and I've been putting off finishing them, knowing they'll probably be the last.

Let's see if I can comment in character as my 1996 self:
"Not a Phish fan really, but I got the promo copy of this that they sent to the bookstore I work at. "Prince Caspian" is probably my favorite track, even if it's not totally accurate to the Narnia books. (Speaking of which, somebody should make a movie of those…

Aw, man! I clicked on the Jim Anchower link for old time's sake, and the last time we saw him he was headed for jail? Now I'm sad.

Another obscure bit of pop culture I only knew about because of a Simpsons reference. Like when the Kaiser stole our word for twenty.