Saturday, as I was waiting for the Mrs. to get ready so we could make a trip to the mall, I sat down and spent 20 thoroughly enjoyable minutes watching the classic 80s flick “Wargames.” Matthew Broderick. Ally Sheedy. A talking computer. Global Thermonuclear War. You know how it goes.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it gave me a thought. There should be a channel that plays nothing but 80s movies. “Wargames,” “Caddyshack,” “Fast Times,” “Better Off Dead,” “Real Genius,” “Fletch,” “Sixteen Candles,” etc. Sure, I have a ton of these on tape or DVD, but when you decide to watch one of these movies, you’re making a commitment to watch the entire thing. I want to know on channel X, anytime I need to waste 15-20-25 minutes, Lane Meyer, Lazlo Hollyfeld, or Farmer Ted will be there to comfort me. If I’m watching a game, what better way to spend the 2:30 commercial breaks than teaching my daughter lines from “Pretty In Pink” or “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”? Forget the occasional flick that shows up on WGN, TNT, TBS, or Spike. I want an all 80s movies, all-the-time source. Surely there’s some internet billionaire out there who grew up watching the same stupid movies I did that can make this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saturday, as I was waiting for the Mrs. to get ready so we could make a trip to the mall, I sat down and spent 20 thoroughly enjoyable minutes watching the classic 80s flick “Wargames.” Matthew Broderick. Ally Sheedy. A talking computer. Global Thermonuclear War. You know how it goes. Anyway, it gave me a thought. There should be a channel that plays nothing but 80s movies. “Wargames,” “Caddyshack,” “Fast Times,” “Better Off Dead,” “Real Genius,” “Fletch,” “Sixteen Candles,” etc. Sure, I have a ton of these on tape or DVD, but when you decide to watch one of these movies, you’re making a commitment to watch the entire thing. I want to know on channel X, anytime I need to waste 15-20-25 minutes, Lane Meyer, Lazlo Hollyfeld, or Farmer Ted will be there to comfort me. If I’m watching a game, what better way to spend the 2:30 commercial breaks than teaching my daughter lines from “Pretty In Pink” or “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”? Forget the occasional flick that shows up on WGN, TNT, TBS, or Spike. I want an all 80s movies, all-the-time source. Surely there’s some internet billionaire out there who grew up watching the same stupid movies I did that can make this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,127],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-nostalgia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15402,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/15402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}