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While this isn’t one of the best Ramones songs, it is arguably their best video. Released as a single in 1986 the video, and to a lesser extent the song itself, pokes fun at the plethora of various musical charity singles and concerts of the era. While it is amusing today, back then “Something To…
A couple of milestones this week. The Cub Scouts ended their year with a crossing over ceremony. This is done usually to commemorate the WEBELO scouts moving up to BOy Scouts, but this year all the dens got in on the action, starting off with the Tiger Cubs, which meant Ciaran was one of the…
The scariest thing happened – a child went missing. No, this isn’t a joke. It ends well, but it was terrifying. No, not my child, but it could have been. I get a call from a friend. There’s a child on the corner, maybe 2 years old. not saying anything, just hanging out by the…
I was thinking about this a while ago. I am not necessarily ashamed of any of the music in my collection, but I can feel a bit sheepish. I know the difference between “good” music and “enjoyable” and this isn’t meant to be a list of “good” (or “bad”) music but instead these are one…
I know it has been a couple of weeks. Life has been busy what with school winding down and summer ramping up. One of the things that happened was the big Tara Academy school wide end of year recital. Unfortunately none of the pictures turned out. None of them. I was so disappointed. At least…
How To Train Your Dragon was a hit film based on a book series, and like most films it took a different path with its storytelling. Diverging from the source material is not new, but the way this franchise has taken off and continued its story is a bit novel. Pun not intended. Not only…
You might remember a couple of months ago when I said there were a couple of Gerry Anderson series I had not seen. “Supercar” is one of them. Now Shout Factory has released this series on DVD in a great collection that is well worth picking up for fans of the Supermarionation series creator. Maybe…
You might remember a few weeks ago when I posted about some trouble I was having with subscription box services for my son August for his birthday. Ultimately I decided to go with Geek Fuel and the first box arrived shortly after August’s birthday. He couldn’t have been more thrilled with the contents. One of…
I don’t remember exactly which day it was, or what the occasion was (not International Table Top Day), but recently I found myself at my friendly local neighborhood game store and I picked up Alderac Entertainment Group’s Pretty Pretty Smash Up expansion. The core set allows for 4 players to go at each other and…