I’m off to Houston for the next four days to help spend my friend and sometimes-very-rarely-contributing editor Smokin’s 30th birthday! No Flashback Friday this week, but normal schedule will resume next Monday. Have a great week, and a great weekend!
On Vacation
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Today’s Flashback Friday is a track you love to hate, Tubthumping by Chumbawamba. The one-and-only track ever widely played on commercial radio by the band, Tubthumping is a classic modern drinking song. The band was actually formed as far back as 1982, but their only real commercial success comes from when they signed with EMI, [...]
Flashback Friday: Chumbawamba
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Arrr.. Give me yon booty, ye vast scalleywag!
Arrr.. It Be Talk Like A Pirate Day
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The Breeders are the spotlight of today’s Flashback Friday, with their standout track from their third album, Last Splash, released August 31, 1993. It’s Cannonball! The tale of The Breeders is a long and erratic one, initially formed from the talent of the twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal. Kim Deal was most well known [...]
Flashback Friday: The Breeders
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While musing with a co-worker on integrating terminology and actions from constantly playing massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft, our conversation inspired me to create a comparison of real life versus MMO life, and what it would be like if the two were mutually exclusive. If Real Life Were Like [...]
If Real Life Were Like An MMO 
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I’ve professed my love for the Wino before (a few times, actually), and today satire newspaper/website The Onion has an article about her troubled life, and the warning signs that we should have all seen. And so I present The Onion’s “The Troubled Life of Amy Winehouse“: Friends and family have been in the news [...]
The Troubled Life of Amy Winehouse
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Today’s Flashback Friday is “My Sister” by Juliana Hatfield, off the 1993 album Become What You Are. Juliana is somewhat known as the Princess of Alternative music, appearing at several indie concerts and MTV’s 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation. She was widely known in the independent and underground music scene in its time, and was [...]
Flashback Friday: Juliana Hatfield
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via rollingstone.com Jim Parsons.. you know there are laws against this sort of thing, but you break them. YOU BREAK THEM.
Jim Parsons versus Metropolitan
via juliasegal.tumblr.com Marc Maron, Louis C.K., Dave Attell and Sarah Silverman circa 1995.
Legends of Comedy
via thedailywh.at Yeah, I LOL’d
Neil Young/Old