When I am craving two of my favorite sugary indulgences, ice cream and soda, I like to “experience” them at the The Franklin Fountain, a quaint ice cream shop and soda fountain located in old city Philadelphia.

may never have gotten the hang of sports as a kid (softball consisted of picking dandelions and soccer was “don’t get kicked”) but I’ll give my younger self credit for making a solid amount of good media choices in the nineties.

Ah, the 90’s! Back to the decade of VHS tapes, cassette players, Bop It’s, and Tomagotchi’s. A joyful time where kids didn’t stare at their iPhones like zombies, but instead rode their bikes and sprayed each other with Super Soakers.

It had been a long, sunny Saturday at the end of a busy and hectic week and it was the perfect time for a release, especially one of fabulous music. I piled into the car for the concert with my two guy friends and their moms, not your usual concert-going crowd. But, it turned out to be perfect for Fleetwood Mac.

What’s the point of keeping an object if it’s only going to collect cobwebs in a basement, or dust in a closet? There isn’t a simple answer to these questions; rather, every individual has a different answer to them. For this reason, I became fascinated with finding out what treasures and keepsakes my close friends have preserved over the years and the memories associated with them.

So let’s assume that the TV shows from your past have changed drastically or disappeared completely, forever ruining your childhood. How will you ever enjoy those old movies and shows like you used to? Well, that’s where Channel Awesome enters the picture.

I had a good eight to ten years of internet free existence, and let me tell you, most days I want to hop into a time machine and transport myself back to the days when I wasn’t constantly overwhelmed with emails and Facebook messages or faced with the burden of having to think of carefully crafted tweets and witty Tumblr posts.

While other kids can easily define their childhood by the games they used to play outside with friends, I can sit you down and tell you about the shows I watched in (probably unhealthy) detail. When it came to entertainment, Nickelodeon was my favorite. There are two shows that essentially defined my childhood: All That and The Amanda Show.

A fragmented remembering of our former president

My passion is television. The ideal scenario is a room full of every series that I hold close mingling together (it’s called The Primetime Emmy Awards). So when Loco Mag decided to do an issue of Nostalgia, I thought about all of the TV series that had gotten me to this obsessive point. Something in my past had to trigger the uncontrollable love for these scripted, recurring hours of awesome. As a child, I remember being in front of my tiny, white television set, clad in butterfly stickers and a doll-head inside its VCR (forcefully put there by my then [...]