This is 1983. Daft Punk came out in the mid 90’s. Homage?

I thought this was the new O’Neal McKnight video for a second. But seriously, how sick are these commercials?

Is amazing. And I’m not trying to be ironic. My mom got real into Enya when I was about 10 years old and as much as I’d give her a hard time, I secretly loved it and still do.

Nickelodeon is set to revive its 1990s gameshow format Guts, pitting families against one another in a new extreme sports competition.

Guts had a four-season run on the kids’ cablenet between 1992 and 1995. In the original version, three contestants competed in four athletic events based on sports like basketball, baseball, archery and soccer.

In the new model, entitled My Family’s Got Guts, families made up of two adults and two kids compete as a team. Each episode will feature three teams in four rounds of events inspired by today’s extreme sports.

My Family’s Got Guts was developed and will be produced by Worldwide Biggies, which is behind the entire franchise. Albie Hecht, Worldwide Biggies’ CEO and executive producer of the series, said that My Family’s Got Guts would “invent family gaming for the 21st century.”

He added: “Guts will bring out the kid in all of us as we challenge families to live out their greatest sports fantasy.”

My Family’s Got Guts will premiere during Nickelodeon’s Nick at Nite primetime block in the fall.

That is what I did when I just heard the news

Not sure if Mike and Mo will be back for the fun though

The Keith Haring Foundation, Goldman Properties and Deitch Projects announce the recreation of Keith Haring’s celebrated Houston Street and Bowery mural. The mural became an instant downtown landmark after Keith painted it in the summer of 1982. The mural was up for only a few months in the summer of 1982 before it was painted out but its image remains imprinted in the memory of many people who were part of the downtown artist community in the early 1980s. (more…)

“Controversial” and “Disney” usually don’t go hand in hand. Until now.

Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946 by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. It was Walt Disney’s first live-action film, though it also contains major segments of animation. The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the adventures of Br’er Rabbit and his friends. These anthropomorphic animal characters appear in animation. The film has never been released on home video in the USA because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as racially insensitive towards Blacks and is thus subject to much rumor, although it does exist on home video in the UK. The hit song from the film was “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, which won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song and is frequently used as part of Disney’s montage themes. The film inspired the Disney theme park ride Splash Mountain. (more…)

This looks amazing…Robert Downey as a black guy…wow

Kinda reminds me of SOUL MAN starring C. Thomas Howell

As a kid, I would literally thirst for Quench Gum (or the now defunct Gatorade Gum) before soccer games, basketball games and tennis matches. It was also great for the two years I played hockey. I wasn’t allowed to drink soda, eat sugar cereals or basically enjoy anything that most other kids enjoyed growing up. However, I could get away with Quench Gum during sports because I told my mom it was necessary for me to excel as an athlete. To give you an idea of how ridiculous my mom was, when it was our turn to bring Gatorade and orange slices to the soccer game, my mom would buy this all-natural “healthy” sports drink called RECHARGE instead of Gatorade. Needless to say my teammates hated when it was mom’s turn.

But seriously, Quench Gum is amazing. The initial bite is almost paralyzing to your taste buds. It has the same effect as, say, a Sour Patch Kid. You really feel it behind your jaw. But a few chews in, you’ve never been so quenched in your life. If you’ve never tried Mueller’s Quench Gum (Mueller also makes athletic tape and ice packs), make sure you pick some up next time you are at a sporting goods store.

Wale and I reminisced over Gatorade gum recently and he told me a hilarious story when he brought some to school for some candy day and before recess, he had chewed through about 5 packs of Gatorade gum and his pockets were stuffed with the foil wrappers. The teacher disciplined him.

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The Greatest Showman in the History of the Universe reveals his secrets for accumulating vast sums of wealth so that anyone can follow his program and become rich. After a wonderful career in which he made and lost fortunes, captivated Kings and Queens, and used his genius, wit and eloquence, P.O. Barnum wrote these golden rules for making money.

Phineas T. (P.T.) Barnum (1810-1891) was one of the most popular lecturers of his day. Over the course of his career, he held audiences spellbound at lyceum`s, museums, tent-gatherings, theatres, private homes, and in any room that could hold a paying audience.

Contrary to his popular image (He never uttered the phrase “there`s a sucker born every minute”), Barnum generally conducted his business enterprises in a virtuous manner, respecting his customers and making sure they were satisfied. Indeed, he was among the first to appreciate fully — and to articulate — that an honest approach was the most reliable path to long-term wealth. He was, in other words, one of the pioneers of business ethics.

Barnum made an important financial discovery during the course of his business career. He observed that nearly all his deceptive schemes “ended in disaster,” reducing him “to the pinching income of $4 per week,” whereas his fortune derived almost wholly from the legitimate enterprises.

Barnum thus learned that, in business, virtue is considerably more than its own reward. News about this discovery can easily be lost when it is imbedded among picturesque yarns about humbugs, but it was of great significance to Barnum, and, more broadly, it was probably important to the massive economic expansion that took place in what we now call the developed world during and after his lifetime.

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Apparently they are bringing it back

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I miss Rollergames though

Can we just address the fact they have an alligator pit on the track?

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