Retro Video Game system of the moment: Vectrex (1982)

Back in the old days of video gaming… now I’m talkin’ the pre-NES/Sega days, the Atari 2600/Colecovision days of video gaming…. the best you could get were from the arcade machines and a handful of home computers and home systems, were innovative and exciting. In the early 1980’s, while we owned an Atari 2600 system…

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The Sharper Image catalogs…. collect ’em all!: The League

Some collectibles, I completely understand… comic books, action figures, video games, baseball/basketball… heck, even football cards. Then you get into weird stuff like Beanie Babies, giga pets, pogs and slammers, Furbies!! Nah, not for me, I can’t see eventually shelling out thousands, hundreds or even tens of dollars for such mundane or even atrocious finds….

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Don Karnage and the Sky Pirates: The League

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a post for The League. This past week’s topic, anything having to do with pirates! I am kinda so-so on pirates, as I’ve never seen any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (!!) and am more of a ninjas and street gangs kinda guy. However, I can’t deny…

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Friday thoughts + Where’s the f%$%^n show??!!

Bah weep granah weep ninny bong, everyone! This is Classick just checking in with a quickie Friday blog post. First off, let me clarify where the show’s been and why it’s been so sporadic of late– Since around mid-November, a variety of things have popped up in real life (and on XBox Live, I won’t…

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Black Presidents

Effective today, The United States of America and The White House will now have four more years of President Barack Obama, his administration, his policies (shout-out to Obamacare) and the finest First Lady in all of creation (What, you think it was Dolly Madison? Nah, they only showed up for her ice cream…). But if…

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The Problem with PBS or…Caught in the Math Net

Today I wanted to talk a bit about Public Broadcast which, as I understand it involves programming that is broadcast publicly so as to allow people to view it. One of the biggest public broadcast syndicates in the United States is PBS or the “peoples broadcasting situation” I’ve done quite a lot of dirty fingernail-level,…

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Trippin’ on Zion [The League]

Come journey below the earth’s surface with me in the latest assignment for The League of Extraordinary Bloggers: Take a trip to anywhere in pop culturedom. What fictional town, time, or world would you want to visit? Considering I’ve been watching a lot of The Matrix Trilogy on cable lately, I figure why not go…

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