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Posted by lonestarbluesboy on 2005/03/12 23:45:47 US/Eastern On a album by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,Bob Markley makes a reference to his girlfriend at the time,Trish Hilton,on a song called Carte Blanche,is Trish the mother of Paris? ( Reply... )
Posted by Francis Kaye on 2004/06/23 19:33:17 GMT-4 A fascinating insight into the showband phenomenon in Ireland from 1958 to 1972 http://www.irishshowbands.net ( Reply... )
Posted by Susie on 2003/12/30 06:08:07 US/Eastern MADRID, Spain (AP) --Enric Bernat Fontlladosa, creator of Spain's world-famous Chupa Chups lollipop, has died, the company said Monday. He was 80. He died December 27 at home in Barcelona, in northeastern Spain, said Miguel Otero, spokesman of Chupa Chups, which produces the flower-shaped candy on a plastic stick. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/30/obit.bernat.ap/index.html ( Reply... )
Posted by Mike Ransom on 2003/07/19 19:47:36 GMT-4 One city's pop culture history in depth, as told by readers: Tulsa TV Memories http://tulsaTVmemories.com ( Read 1 reply )
Posted by Kikkoman on 2002/11/25 22:29:54 US/Eastern I have my own fan site! http://kikkomaso2.tripod.co.jp/ Don't miss the banana and shrimp! ( Read 1 reply )
Posted by AT on 2002/11/10 14:13:35 US/Eastern We don't normally do plugs (at least for other people), but this site is definitely worth a visit: http://www.retrohome.com/ ( Reply... )
Posted by Jack Mingo on 2002/11/08 13:52:40 US/Eastern We (your favorite site editors) have a website up about our column and books. Buy the books from there and we actually get a cut. (Hurray!) Here's the URL: http://www.bathroomcompanion.com/ ( Read 3 replies )
Posted by AT on 2002/10/20 00:40:38 GMT-4 Here's a pop culture site worth visiting: http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html ( Read 5 replies )
Posted by Geekette on 2002/09/05 16:27:41 GMT-4 More retro ads for the geeks amongst us: http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/tv_adverts_summary.htm ( Reply... )
Posted by Erin Barrett on 2002/08/27 19:23:35 GMT-4 It had to happen some day, alas: Sony's throwing in the towel on Betamax. Rest of article
Posted by fingerbear on 2002/08/12 01:45:36 GMT-4 People who think haiku poetry has to be about nature and the seasons are probably not going to like this site... http://www.popcrazy.com/haiku.html ( Read 7 replies )
Posted by Aron S-T on 2002/07/22 14:25:38 GMT-4 Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins) has a wonderful collection of advertisements from the 60's. Check it out here, under the Cabinet of Wonders Section: http://www.thismodernworld.com/pages/gra/gra_fr.html In fact, check out everything else in that section! Rest of article
Posted by Bryan Los on 2002/06/18 13:05:02 GMT-4 The LBP Community Forum is now open! This forum is for all things lunch box. Register today!! http://www.lunchboxpad.com/forum Rest of article
Posted by Ken Carson on 2002/06/10 23:27:23 GMT-4 I know this naughty Barbie stuff is getting a bit out of hand, but still, here's some pics from our honeymoon: http://www.stanford.edu/%7Easta/honeymoon.html Now don't look at the next paragraph unless you are 18!!!!!!!!!! Rest of article
Posted by 60z Rule on 2002/04/30 13:04:24 GMT-4 As further proof of how lame the 80's were, here's the latest pop culture come back from that era: http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/29/transformers.ap/index.html The Transformers are back, apparently fueled by Generation X lamers waxing nostalgiac. Sad, huh? ( Read 3 replies )
Posted by Bryce Lynch on 2002/04/30 12:58:30 GMT-4 Max Headroom, one of my personal favorites, is coming back for an encore on TechTV: http://www.techtv.com/maxheadroom/ For those of you who don't know about this series, this is definitely one of the best cyberpunk productions ever done. Plus Theora was hot! ( Read 1 reply )
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