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“Boys Beware,” or The Courtship of Jimmy Barnes

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on October 4, 2005June 7, 2012
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Educational filmmaker Sid Davis tackles the tough issues of the '50s and '60s - like rogue homosexuals with a thirst for
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Posted in Music, Rants

Goodbye to CDs (maybe)

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on October 3, 2005June 30, 2008
  • Comments Off on Goodbye to CDs (maybe)
Sales of digital music boomed in the first half of 2005, compared to the same period in 2004. Meanwhile, sales of physical product (CDs, DVDs, etc.) slipped. Many are already hailing this as a sign
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Funny for 30 seconds? Oh yeah. 30 minutes?
Posted in Movies

007-Q = ???

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on September 19, 2005June 30, 2008
  • 4 Comments
It was announced the other day that the next James Bond flick will be a reinvention of sorts for the franchise. Not only will we see a younger Bond (around 28 years young), but there will be no Q and
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Posted in Funny Stuff

Hope for a troubled nation

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on September 18, 2005June 18, 2013
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I’m not usually into politics, but I’ll tell you this – if there is one candidacy I can already get behind for 2008, it’s this one. All kneel before
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Posted in TV & Radio

Whole Lotta Landon!

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on September 6, 2005January 7, 2011
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A fond remembrance of Little House on the Prairie, one of TV's most wholesome
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Posted in Ephemera

Send me a postcard, drop me a line…

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on September 2, 2005January 29, 2013
  • Comments Off on Send me a postcard, drop me a line…
Enjoy a random sampling of vintage American postcards from the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Don't forget to "leave the
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Posted in Music

1994 in popular music – musical hell, heaven or purgatory?

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on August 29, 2005June 1, 2014
  • 2 Comments
Nothing cures a pesky bout of writer’s block like a good old-fashioned Inter-web meme!I stumbled across one today on a blog that is full of crap.  So like the lemming I am, here we go: The gag
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Posted in Featured Posts, Listcruft

The Top 9 Snakes of All-Time

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on August 21, 2005February 4, 2013
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From ancient Egypt to Bugs Bunny to GI Joe, here are the greatest snakes to ever grace the annals of pop
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Posted in Advertising, Retrotisements

The Best $9.99 I’ve Ever Spent (Part 1)

  • Chris Holmes
  • posted on August 18, 2005October 19, 2012
  • 9 Comments
What could be better for a fan of vintage commercials than a set of DVDs containing nothing but them? Not much, really. Here's a handful of my
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