Need to kill a lunch hour and don’t have your video iPod full of classic TV? Well drop on by AOL video and watch the sci-fi classic “V” and other classic shows. Not familiar with “V”? It was an awesome show that had Marc Singer battling not so secret aliens in an extremely campy version of the mid 1980s. Plus Robert “Freddy” Englund is in it. What’s not to love. I can see from the look on your face that you still aren’t sure.

Well, I believe this video should put to rest all your doubts.

Its campy, its sci-fi and best of all its free. So get to it. Watch the whole series on AOL Video.

I know its for safety reasons, but its a real shame that toys guns are now built of day-glo orange plastic. I bought my nephew a cork gun this Christmas. It was a real challenge to find one that actually shot corks and looked good (no orange plastic for me). It took a month of research and I had to send away to China for it, but I finally found one I liked. When I opened it, I wished I had bought one for myself. It was made of metal and wood and looked like a real gun. Needless to say, when my nephew opened it, he almost had a joy aneurysm. I don’t know why, but kids love guns. The more realistic, the better.

Someone emailed me this great Dick Tracy comic ad from the 1940s. It comes from a time when realism trumped safety and polio stalked the land. What a time to be alive!