The full chart: https://weeklytop40.wordpre… How’s the chart as a whole? Freakin’ fantastic. 1983 is a banner year for pop music. I’m not sure the world of American pop music would ever feel so unified again: the rock of this year swung, … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: September 10, 1983
The Simpsons has never really struck me as a cynical show. I think of a cynical story, I think of something like The Shield or a Fincher film, where bad shit simply happens as a matter of course, and there’s no expectation on … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode Two, “Mr Lisa Goes To Washington”
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Okami. Its five to seven day mission: to investigate, to lie, and to boldly go where no Avocado has gone before. This game will take the USS Okami’s away … Continue reading Werewolf 41 Signups – Away Team
RoboCop had satisfied his directive and brought a Rich Blonde Jerk to justice. Well, sort of. One of the bad guys had finally been defeated, but something was terribly wrong. He had identified Natalie DuKane as an evil-doer, and yet … Continue reading Werewolf XL: Totally ’80s, Day Four: Heaven is a Place on Earth
Heavy is the head that gets swung over by a hero on a vine. Feeling guilty after inadvertently leading the charge against Elvira, Mac Crocodile was swimming in the atrium fountain, trying to think of ways to make it up … Continue reading Werewolf XL: Totally ’80s, Day Three: Another One Bites the Dust
Our magazine this week is Esquire, December 1934. Esquire was, and still is, a gentleman’s magazine for the classiest of gentlemen. Whereas Playboy sought to teach the working Joe or dweeby college freshman how to project the image of a worldly sophisticate, Esquire‘s readership needed little … Continue reading Let’s Read Esquire, December 1934!
After the upsetting lynch of the friendly Witch, cliques of various Mallrats withdrew to their own spaces. Everyone tried to concentrate on what to do next, though deep thought was almost impossible, given the bleeps and bloops emanating from the … Continue reading Werewolf XL: Totally ’80s, Day Two: Hungry Like the Wolf
????, 1928 Two Cultists dead. The partygoers felt a sense of…relief? Calm? Perhaps before the storm, anybody would feel a sense of relief. Was it earned? Would they ever find out how to get back to Earth? Would the Grim … Continue reading Werewolf 39 -The Pnakotic Party – Day 6
American Top 40 – September 4, 1982 – Here’s the link to the full chart. How’s the chart as a whole? Along with 1981, 1982 has the feel of a transitional year, with disco finally dead as a doornail and MTV … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: September 4, 1982
The cultists had claimed one prize, and for their next target, they put her sister right alongside her. Lindsay was a mere Partygoer (Vanilla Town). The killer took Indy’s life. Indy was a mere Partygoer (Vanilla Town). ********** Day 5 … Continue reading Werewolf 39 – The Pnakotic Party – Day 5
So, like, all you wanted to do was skateboard down to Twin Pines Mall and check out some of the new stores, which you’ve heard are totally boss. Some of the chow in the food court is supposed to be … Continue reading Werewolf XL: Totally ’80s, Day One: Somebody’s Watching Me
What’s up, dudes and dudettes? How’s it hanging? Things are pretty tubular here in the ‘80s, and there’s no better way to show it than by blowing that fat wad of allowance money you have on some new Jordache jeans … Continue reading Werewolf XL Signups: Totally ’80s!
????, 1928 The cultists knew exactly which one to look for next to complete their sacrifice. They made themselves visible to the partygoers, flattering them, listening to their sorrows, wrapping sympathetic arms around them, ensuring nobody could ever suspect they … Continue reading Werewolf 39 – The Pnakotic Party – Day 4
Welcome to season three of The Simpsons! Looking forward, I recognise every single one of these episodes (for those coming in now, I was born two days after “Dancin’ Homer” first aired, so there were a lot of season one and … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Three, Episode One, “Stark Raving Dad”
????, 1928 The cultists found it all too easy to grab him. Flustered at being thought of as suspicious, Owen retreated to a bathroom, combing his hair out of nervous habit, quivering at the death he’d seen that night. He … Continue reading Werewolf 39 – The Pnakotic Party – Day 3
Sometimes my job requires me to read through old girlie magazines (I know, poor me). Let’s look at a Playboy together in the garage before mom catches us! I will not post any nude content from the magazine. At worst, the images … Continue reading Let’s Read an Old Playboy! (Work Safe)
The good Doctor Canard was beginning to feel hopeless. They were making very little progress finding the murderers, and time was running out. The people were running out. All the way home, he pored over his notepad, his chickenscratch somehow legible to … Continue reading Werewolves XXXVIII – Days Seven and Eight
The full chart: https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1985/08/31/us-top-40-singles-for-the-week-ending-august-31-1985/ For about the last year, I’ve developed a Sunday ritual of listening to the syndicated rebroadcasts of Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 countdowns from the 70s and 80s. A list of stations that broadcast the programs can … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: August 31, 1985
Alt-metal, desert rock, stoner metal….the Queens of the Stone Age wear many shoes and they all manage to fit. In light of the recent release of their latest LP Villains, I’m going to take a look at the career of the … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Queens of the Stone Age
????, 1928 The shock had set in: they’d murdered an innocent man. How could a body just…burst like that? Some WWI veterans murmured about their fallen comrades in the trenches, about how men could just…disappear in rouge-tinged puffs, but nobody … Continue reading Werewolf 39 – The Pnakotic Party – Day 2
After her husband died in the war, leaving her alone with the children, RiverSong never really adjusted to life without him. Even with the generous help of the villagers around her, it was all still simply too much. Sometimes, she … Continue reading Werewolves XXXVIII – Day Six
