I am a child of the '80s, and in large part as a consequence, I really love synthpop. (If you're unfamiliar with the genre, the Eurythmics' song "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is the archetypal example.) I don't actually own much of it, though. It hasn't been all that popular in the US since, well, the '80s. Complicating the matter is that ( Read more... )

The following song was stuck in my head all morning at work last Thursday. It made analyzing gas volume losses a little more interesting. Odd, to be sure.

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Back in the mid-'80s, Duran Duran was totally awesome. They epitomized '80s cool. And oddly enough, that fact doesn't make us laugh derisively when we think of them now.

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Defective Yeti's take: "I've been craving caribou and field mice all day. Being hungry like the wolf is significantly less sexy than advertised."