Negative Space: eighties
- Cruise night in Hesperia
- Cruise the town in your favorite form of transportation and in your favorite eighties clothing. Then gather for cocktails at Angelos.
- Dr. Kookie, You’re Right!
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Mike Royko’s final collection of essays, from the second half of the eighties, highlights his bias as much as his great writing.
- Hesperia Class of ’82
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The 40th reunion for the Hesperia High School Class of 1982 is July 15 through July 17, 2022. We look forward to seeing you!
- The History of the Information Highway
- How did a bunch of swinging apes go from the trees to the information highway?
- Hobby Computer Handbook: From 1979 to 1981
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Hobby Computer Handbook lived for four issues, from 1979 to 1981. Back in 1979 and 1980, I bought the middle two issues. I’ve recently had the opportunity to buy and read the bookend issues.
- Nothing will be restrained from them, which they imagine to do
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Figuring out stuff from “the times before” is hard to do.
- Pac-Man Fever
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I was wandering around the record stores a couple of years ago when I saw a full-length album called “Pac-Man Fever”. I vaguely recognized the title, but knew it only as a single. Could I resist buying an album of songs about eighties arcade games? Of course not.
- Reunion lodging
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The Double JJ Resort has rooms, cabins, and campgrounds available, and will be where the reunion dinner is held.
- Saturday dinner
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Saturday’s dinner will be at the Double JJ Resort.
- St. Mary’s Altar Society Cookbooks
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The missing index for the St. Mary’s Altar Society cookbooks from 1976 through 1981.
- Sunday pot-luck & memorial
- On Sunday morning we will have a pot-luck and memorial in the Hesperia High School dining room, followed by a tour of Hesperia High.
- The tractor-feed dungeon
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This is it: my first megadungeon. Journey with us now back to the magical eighties. A time of transition, a time of morning in America, and a time of vampire sharks!
- Wonder Woman updated to the eighties
- Wonder Woman’s new update puts her straight into modern times, just in time to put out a new music video on that new MTV thing.
More Information
- Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video
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You probably have to remember this song when it originally came out to truly enjoy this spoof, but I have been watching it over and over again for the last two days. It is just amazingly funny. Most of the “literal videos” I’ve seen afterwards are too literal; but Total Eclipse doesn’t just describe, it penetrates to the evil heart of the eighties. A lot of music videos used dream sequences, apparently out of the belief that things don’t have to be coherent in dream sequences. After a while videos dropped the dream sequence pretense because incoherence was the norm. At least this one didn’t have the band randomly pop up with their…
- Virtual Arcade from 1984
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One of Dave Dries’ very good 3D renderings of an arcade using MAME graphics and sounds. This one reminds me most of Tin Pan Alley in Ithaca, though it’s got more open space.
