Ten years ago, I was:     Twenty-eight years old, working at The Orlando Sentinel.     Living in Orlando with my wife and daughter and our first house.     Still a relatively new dad. Kelsey was on the verge of turning two. ...

there's a laugh track. Horrifying. But also seriously, this shit gave me nightmares for years. this shit is goonies for the po' child...

  In the last twenty-four hours, we were sent two videos that happened to have been filmed in 1985. We hadn't seen either of them before-- one involves Saturday Night Live, the other a real commercial that might as well have been a parody on that show-- and they're both hysterical for d...

It's been a seasick kind of week in a few ways. Then I got an email from a guy I only know as someone who bought a copy of Collect All 21 last fall. In part, it said: I loved the book. It took me back to my childhood and made me laugh, smile and even cry. There are tons of books out there about ...

Back in the early Sixties, most kids’ mothers wore frilly cocktail aprons to entertain. Not my Israeli mother. Hers looked like this. And her miniskirts and pantsuits looked like this. My mother, a singer of international folksongs, had a great collection of gowns. Many were created at Esther ...

Twice a week, I pick my daughter up from gymnastics practice, along with one of her best friends, whom we drop off at her house on our way home for dinner. These two have been best friends since preschool, and they’re now middle-school sixth-graders. (I’ve always thought it’s kind of neat that...

Sharon Mitchell, whose birthday is today, was the first actress I ever saw in a porn movie who didn’t look like a porn star. She looked kind of like a tiger. She was neither striped nor furred, but she was lean, long and almost predatory, with short hair and a sharp, mobile, intelligent face; I do...

Look, I love The Karate Kid. Can't help it. I'm a child of the '80s, and a celebrator of all its cheese pop wonder, and Daniel LaRusso delivering the Crane Kick to that dickhead Johnny Lawrence is right up there with Vader heaving the Emperor down into the Death Star's core. Part of ...

Aleks And The Drummer Throw It Back One of our fav local acts has a redo of Blondie's Fade Away and Radiate up for Buffet Libre. Other acts in this volume include Ruby Suns, Au Revoir Simone (ELO), Star Fucker......

There are a few very kind reviews of "Collect All 21!" on its Amazon page that give me gut butterflies because they make me feel like I've accomplished a big part of what I wanted to do. Check it out: "Over the years, I'd forgotten so much from my youth...until I read 'Col...