Why We Need to Bring Back the Anti-Pollution Advertising Campaigns of the '70s
Americans are trashy, and I don't just mean reality TV families. On any given day, I'll find litter on the street in front of ...
Showing posts with label Retro rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retro rants. Show all posts
Why Sam Smith's New Song Is the Worst James Bond Theme Song Ever
T hree years ago at this time, Adele's "Skyfall" -- the theme for the new James Bond movie in 2012 -- was getting lots of r...
Why Harry Styles Is Not Mick Jagger
It may be a little unfair picking on the lead singer of the Simon Cowell-produced, teen boy band phenomenon One Direction now that the me...
Modern Slang Words and Phrases I Can't Stand
Modern culture will always be adding new words to the English vocabulary; that I can accept. After all, our parents and grandparents had...
Slob Nation: Why Do So Many People Today Dress Like Hobos in Public?
I've complained on here before about the way people--Americans in particular--dress today, but the topic is worth revisiting. Th...
Dial It Down, Already: My Long Overdue Rant About Smartphones
The smartphone is both a blessing and a bane of our modern existence. I'd be a hypocrite if I said I never used my mobile phone or di...
Whatever Happened to...Raking Leaves Instead of Blowing Them?
I curse Dom Quinto. Who the heck is that, you ask? He's the dolt who invented the leaf blower. I just spent the last h...
Ms. Go Retro Answers All
You know what's amazing? Go Retro has been live for 6 years now and averages around 1,000 page views a day; that's nearly triple ...
The Case Against CGI Overload
Do you ever encounter younger people who have no respect for the way older, classic movies were made? Blame it on the CGI craze.
I w...
Whatever Happened to Kids Being Kids?
I find it deeply disturbing how much today's children know about sex and sexuality at such a young age. I went out to dinner last night ...
Fragrance Nation
The world can be a pretty stinky place--literally. I am so over the current trend of consumer goods manufacturers pumping artificial fragran...
Why I Don't Want an eReader
It's no surprise by now that eReaders are popular; while Amazon won't report exactly how many Kindle devices it sold in 2010, many ...
Whatever Happened to Thank You Notes?
We've been interviewing candidates for a summer internship position at work in my department, but only one person followed up with a tha...
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