At Home With Brutalism
This One Really Takes the Cake
There’s a reason no one has ever been called the Little Debbie with the Mostest
You know the defining moments in a lifetime that people remember with absolute clarity? Things like man walking on the moon, the Buggles video playing on MTV, the first time you used the word “Google” as a verb, and when you learned while emphatically making a point during a huge meeting at your first real job it is intents and purposes and not intensive purposes? Well, another of these moments happened recently with the announcement that Twinkies and Ho Hos were no longer going to be manufactured by Hostess. With that news, I immediately experienced a wave of nostalgia as these were a part of my childhood. Let me amend that: They were a part of the childhood I wished I had — one with formative years chock full of name brand snack cakes, …
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Ellen Stoupa
3:51 pm on Monday, August 1, 2011
Oh my...thirty years ago. My friends and I became glued the t.v. waiting for the top of the hour when 'the astronaut' would announce what videos were coming up that hour. If The Police or The Go Go's were mentioned, I didn't move. more ›