By now the 24-hour newscycle has moved on, and President Barack Obama’s surprise appearance on the web comedy show Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is slowly fading from the headlines. The Funny or Die video to promote the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) has been viewed 15 million times in just three days. It […]

A few weeks ago, I began my third descent into the world of professional wrestling. My first was almost 30 years ago during the period known as “Rock n’ Wrestling,” when wrestlers appeared in Cyndi Lauper videos, and Cyndi Lauper appeared at wrestling matches. I quickly learned that wrestling was “fake,” and while I tried […]

In the 1960s, as Beatlemania stormed across the globe, it also made its way through the Iron Curtain and into the radios of Soviet youth via Radio Luxembourg and other Western broadcasts. With no Beatles albums legally being sold within the Soviet Union, a black market arose where Beatles songs were illegally recorded onto x-rays […]