Retro Wishlist V: That’s “Five”, Not “Vee”

Before I get started, permit me this outburst: OH MY GOD I GOT 99 HITS YESTERDAY. NINETY-NINE. BEST. DAY. EVER! Also my total hits are OVER NINE THOUSAND. (Over eleven thousand, actually!) If I had some money, I’d buy everyone who reads this thing a drink. But alas, I am one broke-ass bitch. So instead, [...]

New Look

I liked the orange, but I was getting tired of it, so I switched to this, because I really like this color scheme. And stuff. That’s, uh…pretty much all I had to say. How are you guys?

Something Old, Something New, Something Blu-ray

In spite of my relative youth (I just turned 26), I’m usually something of a curmudgeon about new technology. I turn my nose up disdainfully at such fancy-schmancy things as iPods and iPhones and Bluetooth and I have been known to make sarcastic comments about HDTVs on occasion. And yet I just bought my first [...]

Surprise Find At Walmart

This little guy was hanging with some of his brethren in the canned foods aisle: Even though his price tag was somewhat hefty for this sort of thing ($3.99), I could not pass it up. You know how those Pound Puppies are. They look at you with those big, sad eyes and then it’s all [...]

Cuckoo for Retro Packaging

So, I haven’t had much to say lately, but I wanted to drop in and blather about this for a minute. In the last year or so, there have been a lot of retro packages showing up in stores. I’ve seen retro-looking Hershey’s bars and boxes of Grape Nuts, and today at Target, I saw [...]