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THE POP EXPOSE – ‘THANKSKILLING’ A 2008 Horror Flick!

November 7, 2021November 7, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffHorror Movies, Movies, Thankskilling, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Story By Mitchell Smith Hello everyone. November is rolling and the holiday season is upon us. This is one of my favorite times of years. We already got our fix of pumpkin spice, dressing up and horror movies, but there is one little gem of a movie that is so bad it’s great the 2008 comic horror ThanksKilling. This is not one for the kids but it is by far the greatest low budget holiday horror flick of all time. The main character is a killer turkey named Turkie. It’s…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘HAPPY HALLOWEEN’ Story by Mitchell Smith!

October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffHalloween, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone, and Happy Halloween! This is one of those holidays that’s just fun or should be fun. There have been many haunted houses visited, haunted hey rides taken, and many candies collected over the years. Back when I was a kid I was in the hey day of the vinyl costume with the plastic mask. I think there was a G.I.Joe costume out there but I remember dressing up like Tweety Bird. In my teen years we were a bit rebellious and we had a little fun with soap,…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Young Guns’ Story By Mitchell Smith!

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffMovies, The POP EXPOSE, Young Guns0 comment

Hello everyone. Today I’m taking a look at one of my favorite Westerns the 1988 film Young Guns. This is such a great film that captures one of the most famous outlaws Billy The Kid and his outlaw gang. The cast was full of stars including Emilio Estevez as Billy and his rag tag team of outlaws. Charlie Sheen plays Dick Brewer the level headed leader who is always trying to do the right thing. Kiefer Southerland is Doc another level headed gang member who falls for the young slave…

THE POP EXPOSE – The Atlanta Braves Celebrate 150 Years Story by Mitchell Smith!

October 17, 2021October 17, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffAtlanta Braves, Baseball, Sports, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone, Baseball’s fall classic is among us, today’s game is full of super human athletes and awesome stadiums to play in, but the sport has changed over many decades to become what we see today. A sport that was created in the eighteenth century by combining Cricket and the game Rounders, and later in the U.S. in 1839 Abner Doubleday was credited in the creation of American Baseball. Later on in the century the National League was created and one of the first and longest continuous teams the Boston…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘The Beach Boys are Still Surfing’ Story by Mitchell Smith!

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The Beach Boys, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone. Today I’m checking out a group that stormed the beaches in 1961 and never looked back. The Beach Boys are a unique band from California that hit it big with hits like Surfin’ USA, Wouldn’t it be Nice, and Good Vibrations. They took the world by Storm with their surfer, feel good music. I recently picked up a greatest hits CD with 30 hits for $7.99. Something many kids these days do not do, but the album comes with a sleeve of pics of The Beach Boys and…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Savannah Smiles’ Story by Mitchell Smith!

October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffMovies, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone. Today I’m dialing back the clock to 1982 and checking out a little gem many may not have watched, “Savannah Smiles”. This is a movie about 2 guys Alvie (Mark Miller) and Boots (Donavon Scott) who break out of prison and end up with Savannah (Bridgette Anderson) a 6 year old run away. Her father is a wealthy businessman running for senate so it becomes a well publicized event. Peter Graves is the lead detective Dobbs and The late great Pat Morita plays Father Ohara. This is a…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Bon Jovi’ Story By Mitchell Smith!

September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffBon Jovi, Music, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone. The 1980s produced some of the greatest musicians of our time. Back when there was MTV, VH1, and even videos on regulars cable tv. We went to the record store and bought tapes. Blank tapes sometimes to try and catch one of the most popular bands of the late eighties. Bon Jovi the band from New Jersey started out in 1983 and hit it big with songs like “Living on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name. My favorite album is New Jersey which is packed…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Boogie Nights’ by Mitchell Smith!

September 19, 2021September 19, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffBoogie Nights, Burt Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone, today we are talking about the 1997 film Boogie Nights. This is a story of the rise of the pornography industry in the 1970s. Watching it I saw past the porn industry and that of the rise and fall of Hollywood, professional sports, and even high school popularity in American Society. The move has a star studded cast from a young Mark Wahlberg, the late great Burt Reynolds, and the late Robert Downey Sr. Other stars include Julianne Moore, Robert H Macy, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, and…

Norm Macdonald Passes Away at 61!

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffNorm Macdonald, SNL, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE, TV0 comment

Hello everyone. Yesterday we lost another great comedian Norm Macdonald. Norm was born in Quebec City in 1959. He started out doing standup in The Ottawa and Montreal area and landed a writing gig on Roseanne. He shorty after found his niche and landed a job on SNL. Most of his fame came from the Weekend Update skits where his monotone, bad jokes, and puns were done so well they were hilarious. Of course he would go on to do many figures such as Larry King, Bob Dole, and Burt…

THE POP EXPOSE – The Man of 1,000 Voices ‘Frank Welker’!

September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffFrank Welker, G.I.Joe, Megatron, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE, Transformers0 comment

Hello everyone, today I am going to take a look at one of the most important voice actors in American History, Frank Welker. Frank Welker was born March 12, 1946. Welker was born in Colorado and began his career doing stand up and impressionist and landed his first big roll as Fred Jones from Scooby Doo. From there he would become the biggest voice acting star with a career spanning over 6 decades. He voiced many familiar characters in feature films such as Megatron, Wheelie, and Soundwave in the 1986…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘The A-Team’ By Mitchell Smith!

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffA-Team, Mr. T, The A-Team, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE, TV0 comment

Hello everyone. I had a chance to relax this weekend and sat back with a few episodes of the classic 80s TV series The A-Team. I grew up watching this show and sometimes I wonder were the shows that good back then or did we just not have anything else to watch? This is a great show and it has been many years since I watched it, so to answer my own question yes the shows were that good. I watched “Where is the Monster When You Need Him?”, a…

THE POP EXPOSE – Barbara Eden Celebrates 90!

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffBarbara Eden, I Dream of Jeannie, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE, TV0 comment

Hello everyone. Many times I’m remembering stars who have passed but today I’m going to talk about one who reached a milestone. Many stars have been fortunate enough to reach several milestones such as 50, 75, and one actress joined the 90 club last week. Barbara Eden best known for playing Jeannie in the hit sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie”, which ran from 1965-1970. The show was before my time but I grew up on a steady diet of reruns of the show. Eden was born I Arizona but moved…

THE POP EXPOSE – The 1994 ‘Street Fighter’ Movie!

August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffJean-Claude Van Damme, Movies, Street Fighter, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone. Today I’m rolling back the dial to 1994. This was a great year for me. I was a senior in high school we did a high peaks climb and 8 out of my graduating class went to New Orleans for the week. Then I started college in the fall and that would change my life forever. 1994 also posted a little gem called Street Fighter. I’m not sure if this was the first live action movie based on a video game but I think it was one of…

THE POP EXPOSE – Remembering Bobby Bowden!

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffBobby Bowden, Football, Sports, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone. Bobby Bowden was born in 1929 in Alabama. Bowden had an illness at age 13 and was bed ridden for nearly a year. There he found a love for WWII reports and college football via radio. Bowden went on to play football for the University of Alabama and would not make the pros but instead went into coaching. A niche for Bowden as he climbed the ranks and landed head coach at Florida State in 1976. There Bowden would turn a poor team around and for the next…

THE POP EXPOSE – Medieval Torture Museum St Augustine Florida!

August 8, 2021August 8, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffMedieval Torture Museum, museum, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone. This week I’m taking a look at one of the places I checked out while on vacation last week. St Augustine FL is an interesting place and one I frequently visit while I’m in Florida. I was wandering around with the kids and they brought me to the Medievel Torture Museum. An interesting place to say the least that displayed many cruel methods of torture from our worlds past. From the guillotine, to witches, and cutting off limbs this museum gave me the chills several times as I…