NEW VIDEO: Top 5 Childhood Cartoons you’d want to experience again for the first time

NEW VIDEO: Top 5 Childhood Cartoons you’d want to experience again for the first time

Posted inGeek Stuff, Television, Videos, Works by Eric
Ever try to revisit a cartoon from your youth? It usually doesn't go well. Except for classic stuff like the Warner Bros. shorts, that stuff usually does not hold up, especially if you were a child of the '80s, when all cartoons were just long toy commercials. You can't recapture the time and place that made it special in the first place. But if you could erase your memory and relive them for the first time, what would you choose to watch? Here's what we said on the latest Hours in the Attic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yW2CJy0PR8   Also, shame on me for…
Speak & Spells, Scratch & Sniffs, and another foray onto Youtube with Hours in the Attic

Speak & Spells, Scratch & Sniffs, and another foray onto Youtube with Hours in the Attic

Posted inGeek Stuff, Random Musings, Videos, Works by Eric
Part of the fun of doing Hours in the Attic with Nerd Out With Me's Tig Carson is that you get to play with the goofy old shit you played with as a kid. And part of that fun is realizing just how damn lame that stuff really was. The Speak & Spell, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-I2ath5F4 Why was this a thing? I have no idea, as is clear from our all-too-brief video on the topic. Poor Tig. I'm sure he thought we were going to squeeze a lot more out of it than that, too. On the other hand, we…
Now I’m on Youtube. What have I gotten myself into?

Now I’m on Youtube. What have I gotten myself into?

Posted inGeek Stuff, Videos, Works by Eric
I don't know what the hell I was thinking. When my buddy Tig Carson asked me to do a nerdy video series with him, the idea excited me because doing nerdy stuff with friends is always a good time. Tig is the curator of Nerd Out With Me (follow them on Facebook here, and Twitter and all that jazz), and the author of A Space Story, a Hitchhiker's Guide-esque science fiction adventure. I have fun talking about geek stuff with him. The idea of a video series sounded like fun, too. We'd talk about old toys and cartoons from our…