As a parent today I am doing all I can to provide my kids with the most comfortable, safest and accident free childhood I can. For some reason I have decided that that is the best childhood I can give them. But when I look back at my own childhood, it was as far removed from that as possible - It wasn't safe, it wasn't comfortable and it absolutely wasn't accident-free. Yet it still was a very happy and fulfilling childhood, and I wouldn't change anything about it. I used to get hurt A LOT; I b…

It's 1984, I'm 8 years old , and my parents have pulled out all the stops for my birthday party. We've got Funyuns, Kool-Aid in every flavor, and a spaceship-shaped cake. But the real surprise is a guy dressed as Bugs Bunny, meant to be the highlight of the day . When he appeared, I felt my excitement turn to dread. This wasn’t the Bugs Bunny I knew from TV. The costume was horrifying—matted fur, lopsided eyes, and a creepy smile that sent shivers down my spine. And then he spoke, not in Bugs’…

I'm not saying that GenX is the best generation , I'm just saying we could kick any other generation's collective a$$. We were (and still are) the most resilient, toughest, no-nonsense generation this world has ever seen. We were left to raise ourselves, and we spent most of our childhood doing things that would make your hair stand on end. These is an entire horror sub genre of 80s kids on bikes going to places they shouldn't be in and doing stuff that would make the devil do a double take. Yo…

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Today I was trying to help my 10-year-old find a good movie to watch on TV, and we came across " Gremlins ." I instinctively told him that this movie was too scary for him, and we went on and picked "Inside Out" instead. And as we watched it, I suddenly realized that I was only 8 years old when Gremlins came out, and I remember me and my friends going by ourselves to the cinema and having an absolute blast watching it. Was it scary back then? sure! but what's wrong with being scared while watch…

We didn't know how good we had it back in the 80s and 90s . Looking back, it seems like every year back then was a banger. Timeless classics would hit cinema one after the other and we would go and see them all! and once home video came around there was no stopping us! huge piles of VHS tapes stacked on top of each other, each containing some of the best, most imaginative movies that cinema goers had ever seen. It truly was a golden age of cinema and we were there at the right time and at the r…

Call me crazy but it feels like the early 2000s just happened Like, not too long ago. I feel like there is absolutely no way we are already 24 years into the new millennium. I distinctly remember plugging the cord out of my landline and connecting it to the back of my computer every time I wanted to log on to the internet. I remember having a giant CD case in my car, filled with dozens of CD that I burned myself. And our cellphones used to have buttons! remember that? they all had lots and lots…

I miss arcades! And I'm talking about those real 80s arcades , where you would just have video game cabinets, waiting for you to drop a quarter in and start playing. And as long as you were good, as long as you were winning - you could just keep playing on the same quarter. Me and my brother used to go every day after school to our local arcade and spend hours there, playing "After burner" "Double Dragon" Operation Wolf" and "Metal Slug". But our jam was "Golden Axe". We got so good at Golden A…

I recently went to see Deadpool and Wolverine in the cinema and had I suddenly realized why GenX love these characters so much. There is no doubt 80s (and also 90s) kids love the Wolverine, but it seems like Deadpool has become very popular in our demographic, even though his humor and sensibilities are more in line with those of a 13 year old boy. So why do we like these characters so much? Because they ARE us. We have the rough and indestructible Wolverine who just wants to be left alone, but…

Don't you find it strange that we don't have a distinct "look" these days? If we look back exactly 100 years to the Roaring 20s, fashion had a unique style; you could instantly identify people from the 1920s just by their clothes. if you look back at past decades - the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s—each of these decade had its own unmistakable fashion trend. But ever since the new millennium arrived, it feels like people just started dressing… "normal," whatever that means. Today's fashion…

Today I was trying to help my 10-year-old find a good movie to watch on TV, and we came across " Gremlins ." I instinctively told him that this movie was too scary for him, and we went on and picked "Inside Out" instead. And as we watched it, I suddenly realized that I was only 8 years old when Gremlins came out, and I remember me and my friends going by ourselves to the cinema and having an absolute blast watching it. Was it scary back then? sure! but what's wrong with being scared while watch…

I'm not saying that GenX is the best generation , I'm just saying we could kick any other generation's collective a$$. We were (and still are) the most resilient, toughest, no-nonsense generation this world has ever seen. We were left to raise ourselves, and we spent most of our childhood doing things that would make your hair stand on end. These is an entire horror sub genre of 80s kids on bikes going to places they shouldn't be in and doing stuff that would make the devil do a double take. Yo…

I miss arcades! And I'm talking about those real 80s arcades , where you would just have video game cabinets, waiting for you to drop a quarter in and start playing. And as long as you were good, as long as you were winning - you could just keep playing on the same quarter. Me and my brother used to go every day after school to our local arcade and spend hours there, playing “After burner” “Double Dragon” Operation Wolf" and “Metal Slug”. But our jam was “Golden Axe”. We got so good at Golden A…

Do you realize how fast the world is changing ? It doesn't feel like it, because a changing world is all we know but up until a hundred years ago, things used to change in a very, and I do mean VERY slow pace. Someone had an idea to tie his cart to a horse, and that idea stuck and remained unchanged for literally thousands of years. At the beginning of the previous century everyone was still riding around on carts with horses and then suddenly the steam engine came, and we got trains, and then…

This is a story from my childhood that is so classic 1980s it could have easily been a scene from a Rob Reiner movie. One day my friends and I were riding our bikes around our neighborhood (as one does during that decade). Since we lived in a fairly rural area, we came across two fields and decided to investigate a little closer. These were both pepper fields, one had all red peppers and one had all green. We really wanted to eat some but we didn't know what kind of peppers they were. I confide…