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| 1917 | Article | Caps 2.0 | A wonderful article, vkimo, but then again, you've never written a bad one. I still have authority on RetroJunk as a message board administrator and content editor, but I don't really post on the message boards anymore. I still submit videos and movie pages, but I stopped writing for RJ in 2013. My last few articles barely got any response, positive or negative. It hurt, especially with the interview I did with Jewel Shepard. It was an interview I was very proud of, but hardly anybody read it. I'm now writing on Pop Geeks, where I've continued my retro articles and celebrity interviews. Pop Geeks was created by a friend of mine from my early days on the Internet who I reconnected with on Facebook several years ago. She initially invited me to look at the site as a viewer, but when I told her I was looking for a new place to write, she said she'd consider it. I wrote an audition piece for the site and she accepted it. That piece became my first article "10 Comedy Albums To Fall Asleep To". It was followed shortly thereafter by my first interview for Pop Geeks, which was with Catherine Mary Stewart. It was a return to e-mail interviewing for that, but that's what she preferred. I resumed the phone interviews the following month by speaking to Jamie Rose. I've subsequently interviewed Ginger Lynn, Ellen Foley, Michelle Johnson, Lita Ford, Teresa Ganzel, J.J Cohen and Lesley Ann Warren, with several more interviews potentially in the works. They've gotten a lot of Facebook likes...I doubt they would've gotten any response on RetroJunk. This was a wonderful piece of history, vkimo, and I'm glad it's doing so well. | Feb 09, 2015 |  | |
| 2366 | Article | Caps 2.0 | Although I had seen MTV at relatives' houses, I was not allowed to watch it regularly until 1997, and by then, it was not really a music channel, but more of a lifestyle network. The only non-music program MTV aired that I could genuinely say I liked was "Daria", but I haven't seen it since it went off the air, and I refuse to buy the DVDs since all the music was changed. When it comes to MTV, I prefer the 80s version, which I've come to know more about through purchasing DVDs from online sources. I can recall interviewing Nina Blackwood through e-mail in 2011 for RetroJunk, and we both expressed displeasure with "Remote Control". Most of the feedback on the article was in praise of MTV's non-music programming. I guess I underestimated the appeal of the non-music programming. I probably should've waited a few years to do the interview and have done it for Pop Geeks, where I'm currently writing now. Finally, the popular video of several years ago entitled "Ask A Network Head" dismissed those who complain about MTV not playing music anymore by saying, to quote the video, "Your generation—not the one before you, not the one after you—your generation decided to steal music, and music videos are more worthless than ever before". I disagree with that hypothesis. People were stealing music in the 80s and 90s, too, by making mix tapes, trading tapes and recording music from the radio, but they were still playing videos anyway. The complaint that MTV isn't about music anymore may be tired, and it is true that MTV plays a few hours of music videos in the morning, but those who miss music as MTV's primary focus have their reasons and shouldn't be dismissed. As for the article, it was a great one, but then again, all your articles are, Hoju. I may not have the fondness for 90s MTV that you do, but the way you described how the network made you feel and what nostalgia you have for it is amazing. | MTV: The 90's | Jul 08, 2015 | |
| 2426 | Article | Caps 2.0 | I took Tae Kwan Do classes with my brother for about a year. In retrospect, it wasn't the best of ideas, since physical activity has never been a strong suit of mine. I quit shortly after I tried breaking a wooden board and all I did was hurt my hand. | The Karate Class Kid | Jul 29, 2015 | |
| 2625 | Article | Caps 2.0 | Well, as Vapor alluded to, I do have a lot of experience with this. It all started back on RetroJunk, when I frequently came across cool commercials and trailers on YouTube that I thought belonged on RetroJunk. I didn't start giving credit to the original uploaders until 2008. In 2009, I got the Pinnacle video editing program, and so I started taking commercials from the DVDs I had purchased. Unfortunately, a lot of the recordings wouldn't move until I purchased the CloneDVD program. As for why I enjoy vintage broadcasts, and the commercials contained therein, it's because I did a lot of recording on VHS tapes well into my 20s. I ended up taping over a lot of the stuff I recorded in the 1980s, including a lot of amazing Disney specials that I regret recording over. I've since found a lot of them on websites that sell recordings with original commercials, and it's been fun. | VHS Television Treasure Hunt | Sep 09, 2015 | |
| 2632 | Article | Caps 2.0 | Actually, all my stuff is already on DVDs purchased from various sources. Vapor has it right. I convert them, and then edit them in Pinnacle. | VHS Television Treasure Hunt | Sep 10, 2015 | |
| 2707 | Article | Caps 2.0 | Me and my brother still have a laser pointer that we use for our cats. It's fun to play with them that way. As for fanny packs, I still regularly use them when I go on major trips, like whenever we go to Walt Disney World. I also wore one to Chiller Theatre last year, and I'll be wearing it when I attend again this year as well. I do what I feel most comfortable with. For example, it's why I still refer to things as cool when most everybody else is now saying chill instead. | 5 Fads of the 90's | Sep 22, 2015 | |
| 3447 | Video | Caps 2.0 | Sorry. My description came from the Department Of Redundancy Department. I was tired when uploading this video. | Tall In The Saddle | Mar 15, 2016 | |
| 3800 | Article | Caps 2.0 | I loved Dick Tracy so much that, for the first half of my second grade year, I signed all my papers as Dick Tracy. The teachers, although they wanted me to use my birth name, were understanding. That was probably my first time that I wanted to separate myself from my birth name. While my birth name is still my legal name, I rarely introduce myself to people under my birth name anymore. I now use the name Johnny Caps in my writing and on my social media. Feel free to send me a friend request on Facebook, Hoju. I'd be interested in learning more about your writing process. | Antique Store Finds: Dick Tracy Memorabilia | Mar 26, 2017 | |
| 3865 | Article | Caps 2.0 | My fear of New York City came into effect after my Dad died. He worked in the city for what was called Nynex at the time, and he would occasionally take me or my brother into the city with him to spend a day at work, after which we might do something like visit a museum or cross the Hudson River into New Jersey and attend a Giants game. My dad was a Vietnam veteran and one of the toughest, yet gentlest people I knew. He died when I was 12, and I no longer felt safe visiting the city. It didn't help that my mom, with whom I had a fractured and bitter relationship, didn't understand why I was afraid of the city. She was born and raised in the Bronx, so she strode through with no problem. Me? I was scared and still am. | Retro Culture of Fear | Apr 24, 2017 | |
| 3882 | Article | Caps 2.0 | I'm friends with Dee Booher, who played Matilda The Hun, on Facebook, and I'm planning on doing an interview with her once I read her autobiography to make sure I don't ask questions that have been answered. Dee's had a tough lot of health issues these past few years, and she currently has a GoFundMe page to cover these health-related expenses. Here's the link to that, so feel free to donate if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/matildathehun | GLOW: Wild and Wacky Wresting | May 08, 2017 | |
