The Puzzle Puzzle
Memories are a strange thing for us humans. We might remember to this day exactly what nasty graffiti was written on the third bathroom stall in grade school, yet not be able to recall whether we had...
View ArticleA Very Special Picture Day
Today would have been my Dad’s 63rd birthday. As you may remember, my father passed away back in July after a long battle with….. well, just about everything. When my sisters set out to make some...
View ArticleMTV Classic
When the M stood for “music” instead of “moronic”. There is no denying that MTV was the cable television channel that most defined the awesome decade of the 1980′s. What started out as a network to...
View ArticleHappy Days Are Here Again!
Yes, she looks so happy as she irons her life away for her family. Mary Alice would be so proud! Last week in a conversation we were having in the comments section of one of her posts, Merby quoted the...
View ArticleThe Original Nicktoons
By the end of this week, you’re going to overdose on cute here at The Nest… Every good 80′s child whose parents had cable and didn’t lock them in the basement until they were 18 watched a ton of...
View ArticleA Mangy Rodent Production
There was an undeniable “golden age” of television programs that spanned three decades from the 1960′s through the 1980′s that just seems so different from the early television fare that came before...
View ArticleMy Final Answer
I expect to be spoiled lavishly by this…. Back in the 80′s, network game shows were a staple of our television watching experience. The mornings were plum full of zany prize winning fun like Press...
View ArticleGot Milk?
This is udderly ridiculous… When we were kids, the world seemed like a much more innocent place than it is now. We may have cried and fussed and ran off and pouted in the corner, but when it came down...
View ArticleUnsafe At Any Speed
As those of you who have been reading my blog for a while know, I do not have kids. I never plan to have any kids. I do not even really like kids. They annoy the everloving fuck out of me, and I...
View ArticleFlight Of The Concorde
Pictured above: NOT Menudo. Ah, the late 80′s. Everything was so colorful and rad. Looking at the picture above, you’d swear it was inspired by a scene from “Full House” or “Saved By The Bell”. But...
View ArticleDigging For Mold
I have always been a hoarder, I can’t and won’t deny that. Since I was a kid, I always attached strange sentimental value to the stupidest shit and kept random crap from around the house, or even...
View ArticleCome Together
Candy squirrel. Everything that has ever been invented has a story of how it was discovered behind it, and quite often these stories are more fascinating than the items themselves. Like how Alexander...
View ArticleHold My Hand
Is this almost over? I’m hungry. The 1980′s saw an explosion in celebrity activism, and most of these charitable efforts focused on one lingering issue in the world…. people were starving. In the days...
View ArticleFallout Squirrel
You may recall back in June I devoted a Saturday Squirrel post to pictures of some majestically beautiful squirrels from the Eastern Hemisphere. Since all of the featured squirrels were from...
View ArticleInsert Coin(s)
We didn’t need cellphones in the 80′s, just more quarters. Video games weren’t just a fad in the 80′s, they WERE the 80′s. If one were to create a Mount Rushmore of the decade, Pac Man’s face would...
View ArticleJe Suis La Jeune Fille
No, my blog hasn’t been hijacked by Pepe Le Pew or Corporal “Cockroach” LeBeau. But yes, that’s French I’m speaking. And no, this blogger isn’t French, he’s American… and he just stupidly called...
View ArticleThe Electronic Wizard!
The 1980′s were a wonderful and magical time, when just the very thought of holding something in your hands that would once take large, bulky machinery had us just as hopelessly ecstatic and orgasmic...
View ArticleUnsolved Mysteries
Prior to the 1990′s, if you were curious about reading up on a subject, you had to go look it up in your Funk & Wagnalls… or if you were one of those poor families who couldn’t afford a set of...
View ArticleOff The Air
The Nest loves political incorrectness. No, don’t adjust your computer monitors! My blog isn’t shutting down. Sorry to make you think I was going to improve the quality of content on the internet by...
View ArticleThe Agony Of Defeat
That’s gonna leave a mark… Big Business got to be big business because by and large, the people who were responsible for running the corporations made very smart decisions. Along with a lot of hard...
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