We have a bunch of new products coming in for the week of April 29th. The new products will include In Living Color pins, Haunted Rubber Ducks, Patriotic Rubber Ducks, Sizzling Pen, Hawaiian Punch Keychain, new Kermit the Frog 70s style pin, and more.
We’re considering a pop culture podcast. What do you think? We’ve actually be considering an audio broadcast since way before “podcasts” came along, but the project kept getting shelved. It’ll be sponsored and contain some really interesting tidbits. The project is in-development and has a potential first broadcast in mid-June. Any ideas, comments, etc. are greatly appreciated.
It’s always fun to find cool websites and not enough sites let anyone know about cool sites anymore.
Screamscape.com: Theme Park News and Rumors – Run by Lance Hart, this guy has been doing great work for years covering theme parks.
Flickr.com: The Yahoo! owned photo hosting site. It’s always fun to see people comment on your pictures and save them as favorites. They now give you 100 megs a month free for picture hosting.
One of the cool things that we’re premiering with the blog is our Back In Time segment. Here’s we’re going to show glimpses into the past of our company.
Here’s how our homepage looked back in October 2000:
April Moments in Pop Culture History
April 2, 1979 – Nickelodeon premiered with three television shows. Now, Nick is a giant cartoon character spawning machine. Just ask our kids.
April 5, 1992 – Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick team up on ESPN’s Sportscenter ushering a new age of broadcasting a white guys saying “boo-yah.”
Our latest product line coming in-stock features In Living Color. For those of you too young to know about In Living Color, let us throw some names at you: Jim Carrey, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, David Alan Grier, Jennifer Lopez, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans. Have you heard of any of these people? We bet you have and they all started on FOX, Sunday nights at 8PM. The show premiered in 1990 and ended in 1994 with the loss of Keenan Ivory Wayans and Damon Wayans along the way (among others) with disputes with FOX. It’s almost certain if FOX treated the creator and head of the show with greater respect, In Living Color would have been on the air for many seasons later.
In Living Color brought to us all sorts of memorable characters including Handi Man, Anton Jackson, Firemarshall Bill, Homeboys Shopping Network, Homey the Clown, The Head Detective among many others. Our new In Living Color products include several of these characters with their likeness on stickers and pins.
Every Monday morning, we’d come into school and we’d all be laughing about what the latest episode of In Living Color had on it. Besides the terrific writing, In Living Color broke through racial barriers. The show had many Emmy nominations along with critical acclaim and commercial success.
Did you know? Kelly Coffield and Steve Park, both cast members on In Living Color, are married. Former cast member Alexandra Wentworth went on to marry ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos.
As the title says, welcome to the PopCultureSpot.com store blog! Throughout the years, we’ve sent newsletters to our customers and posted regular news updates about our products. As of today, we’re changing it up!
We’ll be regularly blogging about news and information at the PopCultureSpot.com, but even more importantly, we’re going to be presenting pop culture news, facts, and stories. Our Pop Culture Beat, which was set to debut this month, is going to be fully integrated into our blog.
We hope that you enjoy, subscribe, and let your friends know about us.
