Of all the fads that we were gifted in the '80s and '90s, the simplest and most colorful was undoubtedly pogs. Looking back on it now, it seems almost strange how we all became so obsessed with what were little more than small cardboard disks and plastic coins with pictures on them. The game itself was fairly simple, you had pogs - the small cardboard circles - and slammers, which were heavier, thicker, and usually made of plastic. First you'd decide whether or not you were playing for keeps (aka keeping the pogs you won, giving up the ones you

Normally getting a speeding ticket is a bad thing, but a Santa Clarita DeLorean owner is actually pretty excited about the ticket he got this week. GiphySpencer White was driving on the 14 Freeway with his mother, when they realized they were going 85 miles per hour. You can probably see where this is going. “My mom, she’s looking at me and she just says, ‘Take it up to 88, let’s do it,” White said.GiphyWhile they didn't break the space-time continuum, they did end up breaking something else - the speed limit. Of course, that was the

If there was one obsession that united all kids who grew up in the '90s, it was dinosaurs. While animated movies like We're Back and The Land Before Time series helped spark our interest, it was Jurassic Park that cemented our love of dinosaurs, and our dreams of becoming paleontologists. While you might know all about dinosaurs, chances are you've never heard these behind-the-scenes facts about the making of Jurassic Park.Giphy1) Everyone knew the movie was going to be hugeThe bidding war for the right to adapt the novel Jurassic Park started before Michael Crichton was even done writing

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. The sci-fi blockbuster has been polarizing to say the least, and it's been called both the best and worst summer blockbuster movie of all time. Personally, it's one of my all time favorite movies. It's funny, it's weird, and it gives us a believably grimy future world that actually looks like it'd be fun to live in. Considering I saw it in theaters when it came out, the fact that it's been 20 years since its release makes me die a little on the inside. This does, however,

When you think of the movies we watched while growing up in the 1980s I guarantee that Gremlins was one of the first titles that came to mind. While we all know the three rules for looking after your mogwai, there are a lot of things you probably don't know about this beloved 80s classic.Giphy1) It was set during Christmas for a reasonLike Die Hard, Gremlins is one of those movies that shouldn't be a Christmas movie, but totally is, and not just because it's set at Christmas. While the Christmas setting may seem odd for a movie that

The world of rock music got a terrible shock this morning with the announcement that Chris Cornell, the singer of 90s grunge band Soundgarden, and more recently Audioslave, had died unexpectedly overnight. SpinCornell rocketed to fame with Soundgarden in the early 90s thanks to the popularity of grunge rock. Their biggest album, 1994's Superunknown debuted at #1 on the charts and two of their singles from it, "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun," won Grammy awards for Best Metal Performance and Best Hard Rock Performance respectively.Rolling StoneAfter the band's dissolution in 1997, Cornell went solo, releasing his album Euphoria Morning