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Military Atrocities, Nü Metal, & Me.

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20 years ago I was boots on ground in Iraq for the first time.  Roughly 1.5 million Americans can say something similar as veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).  
Many were in their 20s, and for many it was their first experience ever leaving the US.  
I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to adequately put into words what deployment felt like.  I write fun goofy articles.  I don’t write about the fucked-shit.   I don’t have the language.
I don’t have the nerve.

But I’m not writing about my experiences in Iraq.  I’m writing about something that came before.  Something I still to this day can’t get out of my brain.  A bit of brainwashing that I don’t think any generation of US troops before could have ever imagined.  

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Friday Five: Special 2020 Wrap-Up Edition!

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Friday Five: Special 2020 Wrap-Up Edition!

2020 was, to put it mildly, a weird year.

COVID affected every aspect of our lives, including the art we consumed and, perhaps more importantly, how we consume it. We couldn’t go to the movie theater. Many artists we releasing their “quarantine albums”. Most shows and movies had to stop production for some period of time. Sports went away and then came back under weird conditions.

But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a great year for the arts. It was just… different.

Because of this, we scrapped our plans to write the “Best Of” articles that usually appear in magazines and websites. We’re bringing back the Friday Five. We asked our writers and guest contributors to list their five favorite pieces of consumed media from the last year.

Here is what The Fancy Boys loved about 2020.

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Fancy Boys Video Game Club: Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu

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Welcome to episode 1 of The Fancy Boys Video Game Club, a thing that I just made up as I began typing this intro. Every week I intend to post a video in which I sit down with a different video game for about an hour or so and talk about it. I don’t have any type of criteria in mind. It could be a new release, an old classic, or just a weirdo game that I liked a whole lot that I’ve never heard anyone else ever talk about. Today’s episode is just that. Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu. Continue reading “Fancy Boys Video Game Club: Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu” →