In an effort to become the blogosphere’s Ken Burns of blunt-force head trauma, I present to you the third installment of “Objects I Have Been Hit in the Head With.” Summer 1992 – A Baseball Bat The events here take place a little more than a year after I got beaned in the head with [...]
In a recent installment, I ran down a list of unintentionally hilarious moments in hair metal history. At the time, I wrongly assumed that accidental humor was the sole proprietorship of rock videos made between 1985 and 1995. Now, it’s 2012 and seminal pop metal band Van Halen not only resurrected David Lee Roth as [...]
Welcome back for Part 2 of a four-part series on (as the title suggests) “Objects I Have Been Hit In the Head With.” This next object made contact with my head a year and a half after the previous one (a vintage 1970s stacked heel boot). And believe you me, this next object was a [...]
I have a very thick skull. This can be said of me in both a literal and figurative sense. On numerous occasions, I’ve accidentally butted my boyfriend’s head with my own. It barely registered with me, but sure gave him a headache. Consequentially, my boyfriend’s pet name for me is “The Juggernaut,” a nod to [...]
We all have our Christmas traditions. Not so surprisingly, many of these family traditions — no matter where we come from, our ethnic backgrounds, or how old we may be — are the same for a lot of us: Tree-trimming. Fighting. Boozing. Sometimes all at the same time. To bastardize Charles Dickens: “God help us. [...]
This month marks five years I have toiled in the trenches as a freelance writer and music journalist. Congratulations and whoop dee freakin’ doo to me. About four-point-five years ago, I started making out that Five-Year Plan that all of us envision as a roadmap to success. First off, let me tell you that the [...]
I make no bones about the fact that I love the hair bands of the ’80s. Yes, I know it’s cheesy and “uncool” to claim allegiance to the memory of a time when dudes used more Aqua Net in a five-year span than I will use in a lifetime. Although I still find myself rokken [...]
In an effort to become the blogosphere’s Ken Burns of blunt-force head trauma, I present to you the third installment of “Objects I Have Been Hit in the Head With.” Summer 1992 – A Baseball Bat The events here take place a little more than a year after I got beaned in the head with [...]
In a recent installment, I ran down a list of unintentionally hilarious moments in hair metal history. At the time, I wrongly assumed that accidental humor was the sole proprietorship of rock videos made between 1985 and 1995. Now, it’s 2012 and seminal pop metal band Van Halen not only resurrected David Lee Roth as [...]
Welcome back for Part 2 of a four-part series on (as the title suggests) “Objects I Have Been Hit In the Head With.” This next object made contact with my head a year and a half after the previous one (a vintage 1970s stacked heel boot). And believe you me, this next object was a [...]
I have a very thick skull. This can be said of me in both a literal and figurative sense. On numerous occasions, I’ve accidentally butted my boyfriend’s head with my own. It barely registered with me, but sure gave him a headache. Consequentially, my boyfriend’s pet name for me is “The Juggernaut,” a nod to [...]
We all have our Christmas traditions. Not so surprisingly, many of these family traditions — no matter where we come from, our ethnic backgrounds, or how old we may be — are the same for a lot of us: Tree-trimming. Fighting. Boozing. Sometimes all at the same time. To bastardize Charles Dickens: “God help us. [...]
This month marks five years I have toiled in the trenches as a freelance writer and music journalist. Congratulations and whoop dee freakin’ doo to me. About four-point-five years ago, I started making out that Five-Year Plan that all of us envision as a roadmap to success. First off, let me tell you that the [...]
I make no bones about the fact that I love the hair bands of the ’80s. Yes, I know it’s cheesy and “uncool” to claim allegiance to the memory of a time when dudes used more Aqua Net in a five-year span than I will use in a lifetime. Although I still find myself rokken [...]
Thanksgiving used to be a low-maintenance holiday. Now, with everyone in a mad rush to jump into an early grave, Thanksgiving has become the pre-game show to Christmas. Worse yet, many employers use the three-day Thanksgiving work week to bust the balls of employees and try to squeeze five days worth of work into three. [...]
September 2nd, 2011 marked the last day that Philadelphia’s 94.1 WYSP was “The Rock Station.” Recently, an article in the Philadelphia Business Journal announced that Philly’s AM band sports talk radio station, 610 WIP, would be taking over the 94.1 FM frequency. The takeover would be an effort to compete with Philly’s other dual-band sports [...]
It seems that TLC has finally come to their senses this week. Not only did they cancel Kate Plus 8, but the cable network gave Kat Von D’s L.A. Ink its walking papers, too. It’s about damn time. I have never possessed the stomach to watch an entire hour of programming devoted to America’s favorite [...]