The Esplanade Mall in Kenner, Louisiana as photographed in 1988 (and which is now closed.) Photo via @ the_80s_interior on Instagram . For s...

In the early '80s my parents added a few of the latest technological wonders to our household that were meant to make our lives easier o...

May 5th is best known as Cinco de Mayo, but it also happens to be National Mayonnaise Day (mayo...get it?), a "holiday" that ...

I think it's time to talk about the Tide Pod Challenge...er, epidemic...that is sweeping the country. I was going to let this one s...

Happy New Year, retro fans! Yep, I'm still here. In case you've been wondering if I've abandoned this blog, I sure haven...

Kevin Spacey was the celebrity that I least expected to ever see associated with a scandal. I've been a fan of his for nearly 20 ye...

A (very purple!) 1980s hair salon. Image via Scanagogo A few months ago I made the difficult decision of emailing my hairdresser to le...

Hey Germany, let's make a deal. I'll trade you George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, James Franco, Matt Damon, Ryan Gosling, Joh...

In my last blog post I raved to you about a movie that totally won my heart, Das Boot . In today's blog post, I'm going to gripe,...

You've probably noticed (or at least I've noticed) that I haven't been posting on here as much...not as much as ideally I...

"It'll never happen to me," I used to say when I was younger. "I'll never let myself go." But then I was la...

Side note: here we go again; the blog template put the entire post on the homepage (grrrrr.) To leave a comment, here's the actual li...

The last time I went to a movie theater was in January to see the Ben Affleck film Live By Night . Before that, it was a good year earlie...

Valentine's Day is upon us, and its a safe bet that after the holiday tens of thousands of Americans will be newly engaged. And it...

I'm working on a new post, but in the meantime needed to vent a bit. Tonight I got an email from an ad network I work with, that also...

We live in very impatient times. Just the other day I was watching a DIY YouTube video on how to trim your own hair (don't tell my st...

It's been said that today's world is getting too darn politically correct for its own good; it seems nearly everything today ca...