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THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Remembering John Madden’ Story by Mitchell Smith!

December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffJohn Madden, Sports, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE, Video Games0 comment

Today we lost one of the most iconic sports figures of the modern era. John Madden has been a household name over the past 5 decades. Madden who started coaching in the sixties was best known for being the Oakland Raiders head coach in the seventies. When Madden retired from coaching he went into broadcasting and would become one of the most iconic voices of the eighties and nineties, and into the 2000. You know you hit it big when Frank Caliendo does a perfect impression of you. And of…

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THE POP EXPOSE – Remembering He-Man Figure Designer T. Mark Taylor!

December 26, 2021December 27, 2021 Serpentorslair Staffaction figures, he-man, Masters of The Universe, Mattel, toy collecting0 comment

Hello everyone I hope you all had a great holiday. T. Mark Taylor passes away at age 80. Taylor is responsible for Creating The He-Man action figure. When Taylor sat down at the drawing table in the early eighties he was faced with a huge task, coming up with something fresh and unique that would rival franchises such as Star Wars and G.I.Joe the 2 leading action figures of the time and perhaps of our time. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was not one I collected as a…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Do you Believe in Santa?’ Story by Mitchell Smith!

December 19, 2021December 19, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffSanta Claus, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Hello everyone I hope everyone is skidding into Christmas on all 4 wheels. This has been a crazy year and it’s hard to believe Christmas is less then a week away. I hope everyone has a chance to sit down among the hustle and bustle and enjoy what is really important in our lives. Merry Christmas Everyone. Santa has been quite a popular character over the years. Kris Kringle, Jolley old St Nick., Pere Noel, Father Christmas, Many cartoons, Movies, and songs have been made based around him. Santa is…

THE POP EXPOSE – NES and Super NES Creator Masayuki Uemura Passes Away!

December 12, 2021December 12, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffNES, nintendo, Super Nintendo, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE, Video Games0 comment

Story By Mitchell Smith Well hello everyone. This week we lost Masayuki Uemura, the man responsible for creating the NES and Super NES console. Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made card games. Nearly 90 years later the world was about to change. Uemura was born June 20th 1943 in Tokyo Japan. Uemura worked for Sharpe before landing a job at Nintendo in 1971. At the time not many people knew much about Nintendo. When Uemura was hired little did he know on the other side of the globe…

THE POP EXPOSE – Favorite Animated Christmas TV Special Story By Mitchell Smith!

December 5, 2021December 5, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffAnimation, Christmas, The POP EXPOSE0 comment

Well hello everyone. This week I’m sticking with the Christmas theme. There are a ton of animated shows that we all grew up with. A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, and one of my favorites as a kid Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The 1964 stop motion show has been aired every year since it came out. This was an instant classic and I think back to my childhood when this would be on. It was so exciting and me and my brothers and sister would gather around our 25…

THE POP EXPOSE – Ernest Saves Christmas!

November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffChristmas, Ernest Saves Christmas, Movies, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Story by Mitchell Smith Well hello everyone. The holiday season is in full bloom and I want to start off with one of my favorite Christmas movies. There are so many and most people this time of year think of Elf, A Christmas Story, heck even Die Hard but one little gem rarely gets mention, Ernest Saves Christmas. This is a classic Christmas comedy. It’s old time 80s humor and good old fashioned funny. The Ernest franchise was a laugh riot when I was a kid and it still holds…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Red Notice’ Story by Mitchell Smith!

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffDwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Gal Gadot, Netflix, Red Notice, Ryan Reynolds, The POP-EXPOSE, TV0 comment

Well hello everyone. I hope everyone is doing well and everyone is in place to have a wonderful Thanksgiving this week, at least those of you in the U.S. I had a little extra time yesterday so my son and I went on Netflix to find something to watch. So we settled on Red Notice. This was a great movie. Dwayne Johnson stars along side Ryan Reynolds in this action comedy. There are several nodes to the eighties and nineties along with a modern punch. Johnson and Reynold’s characters form…

THE POP EXPOSE – Remembering ‘Graeme Edge’!

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffGraeme Edge, Music, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Story by Mitchell Smith Well hello everyone. Today I’m remembering long time music great Graeme Edge, born in 1941 in England and passed away this past week at the age of 80. Edge is best known as co-founder and drummer for the Moody Blues. The Moody Blues have several hits over the years including “Nights in White Satin”, “I Know You’re out There Somewhere”, and “Your Wildest Dreams”. The band was a pioneer in Art Rock and Progressive Rock. The Electric Moog Synthesizer can be heard in many of there…

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…