If you’ve never seen Dave Chappelle’s stand-up comedy routine, he’s got a funny bit all about cartoons. He examines his favorite childhood cartoons from his now adult point of view.
One of the conclusions that Mr. Chappelle came to is that Pepe Le Pew is basically a womanizing rapist.
Not only does Pepe force himself upon females, [...]
In the coming months and even years, I’ll likely be telling more and more Grandpa Sammy stories.
It must’ve been sometime in the late 1980’s or early 90’s — My grandpa parked the car across the street from a 7-11. With my sister and I (us kids) waiting in the car, Sammy asked us if we [...]
Growing up I did have some white sneakers, but more often than not my sneakers had logos/designs on them. What I’m saying is that I’ve never really owned pure white sneakers.
My mom always told me, “White sneakers never stay clean.” Other times she was more straight forward, “You are a slob and you’ll never take [...]
Unfortunately I have sad news to report. The day before this past Thanksgiving, my maternal grandfather Sam Robinson passed away at a healthy 94. My mom, dad, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandma, grandpa, and myself were all on a cruise ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, headed toward Mazatlan, Mexico.
The following is the [...]
Admittedly, I’m not very much into video games. As I’ve talked about before, I really never got much further than regular 8-bit Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Nowadays, I feel like all of these controllers have so many buttons, and the games have become way more complex.
In the past you could sit down and play [...]
Growing up in NY and now living in LA, I’ve very much been around Spanish speaking people all my life. I took Spanish from about 6th grade up until my junior year in high school, and then quit. Part of me wishes I would have stuck with it longer, and maybe even took some Spanish [...]
Discovery Zone, prior to bankruptcy, was a chain of entertainment facilities featuring games and elaborate indoor mazes designed for young children — including slides, climbing play structures, and ball pits. There were at least a couple of these places around on Long Island, where I grew up.
I’m 27 now, but mazes, slides, climbing stuff, and ball pits [...]
I have no idea why certain memories from my childhood stick out. One such memory was when we watched the movie Gandhi during freshman year of high school in social studies class. Social studies was always a subject I could tolerate. I enjoyed teachers’ lectures and class discussions, but it was the retaining of the [...]
Growing up as a latch-key kid, it was quite rare that as a family we all ate together during the week. And by latch-key kid, I mean “Upper-middle class suburban electric numerical garage code-kid.” Not only did we not eat together, my mother barely cooked, and I somehow survived on those microwavable Budget three cheese [...]
Over the weekend my mom told me a story how she recently went into Vincent Bruce, a hair salon type place back on Long Island. I’m telling you, she hadn’t been in there in literally 15+ years, and the same goes for me.
Seconds upon entry, the woman at the counter goes, “Hey, you look familiar. [...]
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