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I fear I’ve lost a bit of that lovin’ feeling lately when it comes to posting. So I’m yelling at my PCS (Pop Culture Syndrome), “Baby, Come Back!”

Maybe a trip down retro TV lane will bring back the passion. Let’s see if an episode of ALF will help.

I’ve been homeschooling my kiddo since she was just a little thing. It’s always been “easy peasy lemon squeezy” for us. We have lots of fun in a relaxed atmosphere using traditional and child-led ways to learn new things.

This year she’s in 3rd grade and that’s when I noticed the pace picking up quite a bit. These days multiplication, division and complex word problems have been thrown into our homeschool equation.

While browsing the internet for content that might help with math concepts I found these cool resources:

Ms. Robinson says, “Let’s bounce to education.”
Here she is with the 9’s Tables featuring the Delray Divas Step Team. You ready?

These guys know how to rock the standards with kickin’ skip counting tunes and songs such as Parallel or Perpendicular, Mean Mode Median, and the Place Value Rap.

Multiplication Hip Hop sets all their songs to award winning music from 2 Pac Shakur, 50 Cent, Ludacris, and many more. Here’s their Tribute to the King of Pop:

Learn math & reading through musical videos that make difficult concepts simple with Learning Upgrade. Their math portion starts at Grade 5 and goes up through Algebra concepts.

Presidents Day! Time for car, furniture, and mattress sales. For many it’s a day to jump start some Springtime fun.

I was searching the intertubes for information about George Washington when I came across the National Geographic YouTube channel. This looks like an interesting episode. From the comments it also looks like many are not happy with the “recent discoveries” about George Washington. What do you think?

Discover America’s first home and find more information about George Washington, visit http://www.mountvernon.org/

It’s a Valentine’s weekend and love is in the air. What better way to get in the mood then with 5 songs from Air Supply? Don’t answer that!

Air Supply has every phase of love covered. If you’re Lost in Love, experiencing Young Love, asking The One That You Love for another day or even All Out of Love. For those of you with a love for 70’s and 80’s love songs Air Supply will be here Now and Forever.The 5 on Friday is back this week inspired by love and full of hot Air Supply:

Lost in Love

Young Love

The One That You Love

All Out of Love

Now and Forever

Become an AIRHEAD, find tour info, and much more at the Official Air Supply site: http://www.airsupplymusic.com

Happy Valentine’s weekend!

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We went to the library the other day, and the kiddo recognized many great Americans honored in the children’s section for Black History Month.

She said, “Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, the lady that made the Underground Railroad, and my Aunt Virginia.”

Her Great Aunt Virginia is my husband’s father’s sister. She was also an award-winning author of children’s books.

Virginia Hamilton won numerous awards for literature including the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, the Coretta Scott King Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Her book Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush was awarded a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.

Check out this retro Snipet from fuzzymemoriestv.TV

Many of her stories went from the printed page to other media such as her novel The House of Dies Drear made into a film starring Moses Gunn, and Shavar Ross in 1984. She collaborated with James Earl Jones to narrate her book The People Could Fly on CD.

Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton tells 24 stories that kept her ancestors’ culture alive during slavery, from spirited animal trickster tales and robust tall tales to spine-chilling tales of the supernatural and moving narratives of slaves in search of freedom. Twelve of these tales are on the 78-minute CD, including the hauntingly beautiful title story, “The People Could Fly,” Booklist praised the recording as “an outstanding and most welcome production that both complements and extends the original work.”—from her official website www.virginiahamilton.com

Her stories inspire young and old to read, write and share their own stories with future generations. Virginia’s love of storytelling and the arts have been passed down to her own children. Her son Jamie Adoff is a writer, and her daughter Leigh Adoff is an opera singer.

Virginia Hamilton left this earth on February 19th, 2002 but her stories can be found in libraries, bookstores, and inside our minds and hearts, thank you Virginia.

“The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. It’s light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That’s happiness. That is who I am.”—Virginia Hamilton

A friend of mine turned me on to this cool link about the history of pinball. For 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Pinball History via Popular Mechanics click here.

I had no clue it was once illegal. Who knew it was taboo? Speaking of who, how about The Who…

Here we go with some Pop Culture Syndrome synapses. Doesn’t Pete Townshend from The Who look a lot like Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn?

I was never a pinball wizard but I wasn’t too shabby either. TILT!

If I could have any pinball machine in the world what would it be? I think I’d go with an Edward Scissorhands theme, or maybe Gilligan’s Island.

How about you? What would your ultimate pinball machine look like?

The Last Unicorn on IMDb click here.

Official website for The Who: www.thewho.com

Cool pinball machines for sale: www.thepinballcompany.com