So here’s something. We all have our personal mythologies; items and mementos that hold special meaning or that act as talismans to connect the past with the present and forge a notion of physical continuity between them. Something we remember from youth that exists to this day. For me, the necklace that lived around my [...]

This is a piece I wrote that appeared in Nomad Edition’s U+ME Digital Weekly magazine.  You should definitely subscribe or at least check them out; the trial is free and they are cheap once you have to pay for them. Which you don’t have to if you don’t want. This is a jedi mind trick; [...]

There was a lot of depressing back-story and continuity to the Sectaurs that they had to explain in this commercial. In my day, you got kids excited to play with toys by leading with: “A GENETIC EXPERIMENT FAILS; A CIVILIZATION DIES…” These were some of the best designed, yet somehow uninviting and hard-to-relate-to toys of [...]

Listen to the whole audio thing. It’s pretty funny. Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota and now declared 2012 Republican presidential hopeful’s most interesting aspect, to date, has been his complete and utter lack of anything interesting about him. The media and beltway press are often too focused on such matters and tend to over-simplify [...]

Thanks, Captain Marvel. Sunday afternoon nostalgia. I lived for this show on Saturday mornings. I caught a few episodes, by way of Tivo, that aired a few years back on TVLand, or something. They kind of don’t hold up. At all. Flashback to 1979: My father never understood why they changed the comic book character [...]

I know I’m late to the game here on offering any Sheen-flavored commentary, and that the whole #winning and #tigerblood stuff was played out within 24 hours of its introduction. But I want to offer a comparison I don’t think has been made. I know that the real story has to do with some cocktail [...]

In an alternate universe where I have a nephew who is soon to go to High School and seeking sage council and advice from his wise and learned Uncle Josh on how to approach the coming four years, I would sit him down and tell him a shameful story of cowardice and indecision. Three of [...]

Oh, 1980s. You kind of sucked, didn’t you? Share this:PrintFacebookDigg

Yet another TV season has come around again wherein my vow to not watch stuff like THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE is undone by my forgetting to tell Tivo to cancel my season pass from the previous year. And once it is there on Tivo’s “Now Playing” list, it is like the piece of cold pizza in [...]

If Larry Kudlow is the banality of evil, Glenn Beck is the punch-me-face of evil. I have often said that people who like and agree with Glenn Beck must have thought that Frank Burns was the hero of M*A*S*H. He’s a specifically weaselly, conniving opportunist who doesn’t even believe his own B.S., which makes him [...]

View Japan Tsunami Video Locations in a larger map via WhileSeated blog. The footage on TV is often looped and mixed and matched, so it is hard to get an actual, geographical handle on the scope and enormity of the earthquake and tsunami that has devastated so much of Japan. This GoogleMap begins to put [...]

We are done a disservice in our sensationalized conception of “evil.”  The notion of completely self-aware monsters, horror-lit from under the chin intoning dread pronouncements of arch-villainy makes the spotting of actual evil things that much harder. In movies and books, our villains are dastardly master-plotters who delight in their own wickedness.  They announce their plots [...]