1980s Popular Culture

Oil Can Boyd and the good ol' 1980s

9 Feb 2012

After the Boston Red Sox lost the heartbreaking Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd was scheduled to start Game 7. The game got rained out, which gave Red Sox manager John McNamara an option: Boyd on five days' rest or Bruce Hurst on three days' rest. Boyd had started Game 3 and allowed four runs in the first inning but settled down after that and pitched seven innings ...

Silicon Valley Rocks Flashy Socks

9 Feb 2012

SAN FRANCISCO - For barristers in 18th-century London, it was shoulder-grazing wigs. For the mad men of 1950s New York, it was briefcases and fedoras. For the glass-ceiling-shattering women of the 1980s, it was shoulder pads.

Culture-jammer or neo-dandy, meet post-metrosexual man

9 Feb 2012

From culture-jamming youths wired into a networked world, to neo-dandies or take-it-slow types, what tomorrow's man will look like -- and what he might want to buy -- is a capital issue for big brands.