It would've been my grandfather Jaime's 78th birthday today.


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I came home and fell asleep with the television on for the first time in a while. When I was a kid, I couldn't go to sleep without the TV on. It would always be on The Cartoon Network, Hannah Barbera cartoons from the 60s and 70s that would seep into my dreams from time to time. At first I thought it was a fear of the dark, but it became evident ( Read more... )

Geocities, the web-hosting giants of the late-nineties responsible for a ridiculous amount of Hanson fan pages, is shutting down soon, effectively wiping a big chunk of internet history (and horrible animated gifs and oversized, multi-colored font) off the world wide web. I have to admit, I felt a tinge of nostalgia as I read the news. The very ( Read more... )

I got my first Ramones record when I was 12. At the time I was just starting to get into punk rock, so of course my favorite bands at the time were Green Day and The Offspring. And through the wonders of the internet I found many an interview where their respective members would talk about how the band changed their life. The first Ramones song I ( Read more... )

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When I was about six years old, my life was completely dominated by two enormous, all-consuming obsessions: Batman and Popeye. I was captured by these characters, somehow. Everything they represented, all that they stood for; they were everything I could ever wish to be. And yet they were so different-- Batman was a dark shadow prowling the streets ( Read more... )

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I had the strangest dream last night. We were sitting around in a circle outside, late at night, I think eating some pizza or something. And Joe Strummer was sitting with us. And somehow I was the only person who recognized him. I kept turning to everyone and going "dude, this is Joe Strummer! It's Joe fucking Strummer!" and all I ( Read more... )