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Nerd Lunch Episode 39: Test of Time: GI Joe: A Real American Hero

Episode 39 of the Nerd Lunch podcast is live and ready to defend human freedom against…boredom, I guess? This week we are joined by Doug from the very funny podcast Schlock Treatment.  Our topic?...

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8 Comic covers right before/after a famous first appearance

First appearances of famous comic book heroes/villains are highly sought after in the comic book world.  Who wouldn’t love an Action Comics #1 or a Detective Comics #27?  But what about Action Comics...

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New Feature: Bionic Review

I’m going to start up another feature on this blog. Thanks to CT over at Nerd Lunch I was able to acquire a very cheap set of The Six Million Dollar Man Complete Series DVD collection from Time Life....

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The 1992 Olympic Dream Team debuted just over 20 years ago

On June 27 the 1992 Basketball Tournament of the Americas was held in Portland, Oregon.  Just over 20 years ago. This would be the qualifying tournament for the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona, Spain....

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A counterpoint review of The Garbage Pail Kids retrospective book

Back in April, over on Nerd Lunch, CT wrote an extremely honest review of that Garbage Pail Kids retrospective book that was released earlier this year.  He admitted that he didn’t have the nostalgia...

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Nerd Lunch Episode 72: Live Action Children’s TV Shows

Welcome to another fun-ducational episode of the Nerd Lunch podcast. This week we are again Jeeg-less, but we are joined in the 4th chair by Tim Lybarger. Tim is the proprietor of The Neighborhood...

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Cult Film Club Episode 4: The Beastmaster (1982)

The Clubhouse is now open.  For this installment of Cult Film Club we are discussing the awesomely phantasmagorical 1982 fantasy movie, The Beastmaster. We all discuss our personal recollections of...

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A Review of the 1973 TV Guide Fall Preview Issue

Welcome to the second installment of my TV Guide Fall Preview reviews.  This is a feature that I sort of “borrowed” from my good friend Shawn Robare over at Branded in the 80s.  He covered mostly the...

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Nerd Lunch Episode 82: 90s sitcoms

You have arrived at Episode 82 of the Nerd Lunch podcast. Unfortunately, Jeeg went on a bender the other night and is sleeping it off so we are joined by two guests. The first is my co-host from the...

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Nerd Lunch Episode 91: GI Joe: A Real American Hero action figures

Our long, slow crawl to episode 100 continues. While Jeeg is off searching for the third constituent element in his Weather Dominator this week, we are joined by our good friend Shawn Robare and first...

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Cult Film Club Episode 8: Karate Kid Part III

We pulled a sneak attack on you guys. Just when you thought CFC was going to miss our June episode, BOOM, here we are with under the wire with Episode 8 in which we talk about our first sequel, Karate...

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Hanna-Barbera’s The Robonic Stooges (1977)

This week’s assignment from the League is to talk about robots. Another rather broad topic, but instead of listing my top 10 robots or something along those lines, I’d thought I’d discuss one of my...

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Vintage ads for official movie magazines from the 80s

I’ve talked about movie magazines before.  As a matter of fact, back in 2010 I took a look at the Back to the Future souvenir magazine.  I love official movie magazines and I have a bunch of them....

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2013: Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive (1992)

Today I’m going to take a look at Peter Jackson’s 1992 cult zombie film, Dead Alive. Suprisingly, I’d never seen this movie before. I used to be a big gore hound in the late 80s. I’d heard of it at...

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2013: My Boyfriend’s Back (1993)

With all the mostly horror based zombie movies I’ve been covering this month, I thought I’d try a more comedy based zombie movie. I’ve never watched today’s movie. I remember it being released, but I...

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Today is the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination

50 years ago today, JFK was killed in Dallas.  It’s up to you to interpret how or why he was killed.  There are plenty of theories to choose from.  Personally, I think here is more to the “Lee Harvey...

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Scene by Scene: Watching the awesome Force Five Starvengers cartoon

I just watched the 1980 Japanese anime classic, Force Five: Starvengers.  I’ve loved this movie since I watched it in re-runs as a kid.  I just recently rewatched it and I thought I’d go over the story...

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Nerd Lunch Episode 124: The Atomic Weeks – Late Night Talk Shows

This is week 3 of our Atomic Weeks in which we are celebrating the upcoming episode 250 of our friends The Atomic Geeks. This week we are joined by Christian Nielsen in order to discuss late night...

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Remembering Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County

I’m a fan of the found footage genre. The genre gets a lot of sh*t from people, but honestly, I think some of these movies are scarier than the “splatter” or “serial killer” movies that are currently...

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014 is coming!

It’s the first week in September!  Which means we are now officially 1 month from October 1st, which is the beginning of my annual AWESOME-tober-fest Halloween celebration.  Needless to say I am hip...

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