Hey - have you heard the news? Dewey Cox died... actually, it was Mtv that died.. Today, December 31, 2025, at the tender age of 44, Mtv will cease broadcasting globally. For those of us who were there when it began (on or around) 12 pm of August 1st, 1981 we watched in awe as our TV sets first woke from the static-filled screen of electric snow and the chaotic buzzing of a billion wasps into these brilliant Bizzaro, pastel-colorized images of the 1969 moon landing, where a neon colored rainbow-tinted John Glen grounded a huge pulsating MTV flag onto the moon’s surface. It was a game changer. If you were a teenager in the early 1980s Mtv was the shit. I was as guilty of this fascination with Mtv as any. It was late 1981 and my mother’s second husband Joe had just splurged 9 dollars a month to provide the family with cable TV. Every night Joe would pass out on the sofa with a Pabst Blue Ribbon clutched in one hand and the remote control clutched in the other, with reruns of Marty Stouf...
