Stick Stickly (and his empty red eyes) was the host of Nick in the Afternoon, a block of afternoon programming on Nickelodeon from 1995 to 1998. I feel like every cartoon I've ever watched has warned me that red eyes are bad but sure, let's just go with it. To try and make a popsicle stick … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: S is for Stick Stickly

Never has there been a movie that captures the post-college experience quite as perfectly as Reality Bites. This 1994 cult classic film has often been referred to as one of the films that captured the zeitgeist of the experience of young adults in their 20s in the early 1990s. However, upon re-watching this movie, I find … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: R is for “Reality Bites”

YAAAAAAS, QUEEN! Queen is one of the most influential bands in rock and roll's history and a personal favorite of mine so I'm extremely excited to be able to write about them this week. If you don't know who they are, then you're either a dirty liar or you've been in a doomsday bunker since … Continue reading Q is for Queen

I know the obvious topic for "P" in my alphabet series should be Pokemon, especially with last week's release of Pokemon Go. But honestly, I'm not that into it, largely due to the fact that apparently my less-than-a-year-old phone is too ancient for the game so maybe I'm just a little salty. That being said, … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: P is for “Pretty in Pink”

There was no better day in the computer lab at school when you were allowed to play The Oregon Trail. As soon as the teacher announced it, there was always a wild stampede for the game disks which were 5 1/2 inches and could store a whole 1.2MB of data. When the game started, you could … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: O is for The Oregon Trail