Did the Devil Leave His Mark On This Rock in a Brooklyn Cemetery?

Don’t walk too closely next to this rock in Brooklyn. Satan himself may have touched it.

by Rich Watson 

This is the time of year for accepting the supernatural, if only for fun. New York has its share of corners where ghost stories are still told and unexplained phenomena have been thought to occur.

In a prominent Brooklyn cemetery, for example, there is a certain rock, which some say bears the hoof print… of the Devil.

#popculture84: Mighty Orbots: The Other Transforming Robots

The life and premature death of this Saturday-morning animated series about robots who also were more than met the eye.

by Rich Watson 

To a Generation X kid growing up in the eighties, cartoons about transforming robots were the coolest thing since light sabers. They usually were made in Japan, and we were learning that Japanese animation looked way better and had more action than what we were used to seeing.

In a year, 1984, in which transforming robots were hot, ABC released one series less remembered today than the others, called Mighty Orbots.

#popculture84: Frankie Goes to Hollywood Versus the BBC

When the band recorded “Relax,” one of the biggest hits of the eighties, the British media tried to censor what they perceived as a dirty song.

by Rich Watson 

Frankie Goes to Hollywood had a brief shelf life as a pop band during the eighties, but boy, did they make their mark. Their impact on fashion and sexuality was felt here in America, but it did not compare to that of their native England. They made their fellow Brits uncomfortable, to say the least.

Especially those within the BBC.