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 […]
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Tag: Popular Culture
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. – Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1969
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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