Halloween is the first significant holiday since Eightiesology launched and I thought it would be interesting to put the holiday into the context of the decade. Christmas was a more memorable holiday for me during the ’80s while Halloween tended to be a, ahem, haunting memory. It’s ironic then that when the ’90s rolled around, [...]
Archive for October, 2008
A Halloween Tale
Posted in Hometown on October 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Raiders of the Lost Art
Posted in Adventure, Film & Video, Travel on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my exploration of the media that forms the foundation of Eightiesology, I’ve come to realize that each medium has carried much of its enthusiasm into the current era. A band can still incite intense emotion during a concert and their music still soundtracks essential memories-in-progress. Television shows have very clearly never been as well-crafted [...]
Sunday Evening Serenade
Posted in Musicology on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Eightiesologist ventured into the city with his wife to celebrate a friend’s birthday and was able to utilize our camera’s video feature to capture some of the karaoke fun. It’s not pretty but part of the beauty of the ’80s and the total lack of shame we can now have in retrospect is our [...]
Friday Night Dance: Girl, You Know It’s True
Posted in FND, Musicology on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have a confession to make. I actually purchased Milli Vanilli’s Girl You Know It’s True album AFTER it was revealed that the two dreadlocked males we’d come to believe were singing, were actually lip synching frauds. Much of the music on the album had been everpresent in the late ‘80s but as I hit [...]
Eightiesologlossary: Hoops
Posted in Eightiesologlossary, Sports on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The third in a virtual glossary of terms either specific to the 1980s or to our staff’s own upbringing in said decade. This time around we focus on a term that isn’t specific to the culture of the Eightiesologist’s upbringing. “Hoops” 1. Circular figures or objects 2. The game of basketball, the act of shooting [...]
