Looking for Volunteer Editors
I’m looking for a volunteer editor for the Movies That Trigger website. Last year, it was re-booted and placed back online. The original publisher has given me her blessing to reconstitute this great resource....
Tagged: Popular Culture
Music on My Mind
For those who are not long time readers, I have mentioned my retreat into music in prior blog entries. I grew up in Central Illinois with seasonal allergies that made breathing outside a problem...
Can’t a Girl Like Some Sci Fi Without the Gender Guilt Trip?
Carrie Goldman, blogging about her daughter's love of Star Wars and her own response to bullying: Katie loves Star Wars, and she was very excited about her new items. For the first few months...
Feeling His Pain
Wil Wheaton on crying hey man this is babylon : See, this is why the loss of Tower Records is going to seriously hurt a generation of young artists, because it was in a...
Too long the songs have been silent… Too long the strings have been still
Sadly, musician and songwriter Dan Fogelberg passed away on Sunday after a prolonged battle with prostate cancer. His official website posted this message for fans: “Dan left us this morning at 6:00 a.m.,” the...
A Dirty Dog
I was interviewed on Tuesday by a National Enquirer reporter for the print version of their expose on Duane "Dog" Chapman's racist rant. The reporter played two tapes for me that appeared to have...
Alba Go Bragh
What is it about Braveheart that sucks me in whenever I encounter it? It's after midnight on the East Coast and I'm watching a movie I've seen eight hundred eleventy times before. Perhaps it...
Hobie Talks to the Star-Ledger
The Star-Ledger has an interesting story on my cousin (not sure how many times removed) Hobie Landrith – the very first Met: The handshake grip was meaty enough, but Hobie Landrith wanted to make...
Soundtracks
Yesterday, Wil Wheaton (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com) had this to say on nostalgia (http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2006/09/in_the_heat_of_.html): "It's music, too: Squeeze, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, The Cure, The The, and Oingo Boingo." "It's movies: Batman, Blade Runner, Back to the Future,...
Old pulp culture day upon day…
This Wapsi Square comic cracked me up (http://wapsisquare.com/d/20060814.html). It may not make sense to some younger Generation Y'ers, but if you came of age in the 1980s, you'll get the references. Link courtesy of Mr....