nostalgia – Page 4 – The Coal Speaker

August 27, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

Horror trivia: William Shatner played Freddy Voorhees from the Halloween on Elm Street The 13th movie

Painful for a horror fan.. check out Conan O’Brien and William Shatner getting everything wrong about Halloween in 1997..

Fall itself is wrapped itself around it all—cool mornings, leaves crunching under shoes, the smell of sharpened pencils and pumpkin spice everywhere.. memories come back so easily you can almost hear the hum of the fluorescent lights in the hallway of your own school..

So stop remembering them!

June 19, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

JAWS at 50: The Shark That Still Bites

Before Jaws, monsters were myths. Frankenstein. Dracula. Godzilla. Fantastical creatures. Jaws made the monster real. Great white sharks exist. We just hadn’t thought to fear them.

June 7, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

The Goonies are still good enough 40 years later

Let’s just pretend that the greatest movie ever the GOONIES is playing at the Schuylkill Mall tonight and it is June 7, 1985.

April 5, 2025 THE COAL SPEAKER

The Gray Fade: On Fast Food, Isolation, and the Disappearing Color of Connection

Everything’s gray. Monotone. Lifeless. The buildings look more like bank branches or prisons than places to eat or hang out. Actually banks look more fun.
It doesn’t stop there. We stopped being fun, too.