iPods are back, bitches
Go back to an "it just works philosophy"
Stop doing AI bullshit that still doesn't work

or, alternately

I'm not keen on the whole "Team Retrogaming" hype because it gives off the stink of a contrived fad which is destined for a crash.

Too many attempts to impose manifestos upon what amounts to a bunch of aging nostalgia addicts and/or tech tinkerers.

It's a great one, too.

spotlights on Australian Rock, Echo & The Bunnymen, and Daniel Ash.

Scored the last 60 minutes of a Night Flight episode where I only had the first 70 minutes.

A little trimming and splicing, and I’ll have the complete episode.

Pluto has an Ed Sullivan Show channel but it's compilations of isolated segments, and I prefer the full episodes or the early 1990s Best of... thirty minute abridged ones which retain the oddball acts.

Not shown:

Spanish acrobats, Petula Clark, and a choir of singing nuns.

A troupe of clog dancers whose yellow and white outfits were apparently inspired by Egghead from the Batman TV show.

Flip Wilson, looking Space Age slick as heck.

The weird world of the pre-Sesame Street Muppets.

Mick Jagger in full swagger.

The January 15, 1967 episode of the Ed Sullivan Show, aka what I drifted in and out of consciousness to at 3:45 AM this morning.

The previous weekend's episode had a segment on Transvision Vamp.

The July 20, 1991 weekend edition of Entertainment Tonight checked in at the 10th annual Home Video Dealers Convention in Las Vegas, where futures real and imagined were being pitched.

Oh, is there new MCU fol-de-rol? Okay, then!

*goes back to checking if the Night Flight ep I found on a different source is of better quality than the copy I currently have*

And, from what I've heard (possibly from you?) a State Dem apparatus that would rather focus preserving personal fiefdoms around the big cities.

"We've found their urge to spawn has been replaced by a desires to become a Wall Street derivatives broker, pitch their latest screenplay, and/or to 'ROCK THE SOCKS OFF AMERICA'," say scientists.

Watching episodes of The Soup from 2005 recently reaaly drove this home -- all the asshattery and foolishness was there, but lacked the blasting caps to weaponize it.

The real difference is the advent of social media expanding the reach of horrible people and takes, and a mediasphere whose greed a moral turpitude led to normalizing outright batshit conspiracists and Nazi fuckers.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a white background . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a white background .

you may find yourself stuck in traffic, staring at the storefront chapel which replaced the CVS where you once bought cheap candy, Armor Wars and Justice League International as they came out

Doing the grocery shopping because Maura can't lift anything heavier than ten pounds.

It involved going to my (completely redeveloped) childhood stomping grounds in North Woburn, and when 1st Wave started playing "Once in a Lifetime" I shouted "TOO ON THE NOSE."

January 1991.

A nice thing about emulation is you can map the thrust button for Sega's 1982 Star Trek game to a gamepad's right trigger and the dial to the left analog stick for a slicker "modern" experience.

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BATTLE STATIONS

NEW! Pin-Up GameChanger case!

Tekken’s Nina Williams in: Death By Degrees (PS2)

(Will be available as case, or with real game included as I obtain them)

A return to that PS1 era magic.

Point: "Q-Bert just isn’t that scary"

Counterpoint:

Dudley Moore on the Dick Cavett Show, 1979.

The Rolling Stones on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1966.

Martha Plimpton on Late Night with Conan, 1994.

The Top 5 Albums of 1983 from Night Flight's "Playback '83" special, 1991.

Last night's ultra-late show video playlist:

Including this much coveted artifact

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