Every holiday season my wife and I throw a cookie party, a holiday celebration where everyone brings a dessert. Some are home-made, some store-bought, and some struggle with a savory dish to offset the insane sugar content of our apartment. As ice cream is my hobby and specialty, am tasked…
This past October I went through my annual horror binge. Horror is a strange genre as far as production goes, as it’s this sort of catch-all that covers all sorts of things. Since it’s an emotion (even romance is technically a verb), it’s incredibly subjective. The focus can be on…
Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s officially Christmas season. I just wanted to give a gentle reminder that Christmas isn’t everyone’s goal. If it is your holiday, that is great. But many of us have our own winter holidays, not always analogous to Christmas, and aren’t in need of a Christmas. Basically,…
Content Warning: Prepare to feel old. Toy Story was first released in US theaters 22 years ago today. Are you okay? Take a minute to collect yourself after feeling a moment of your own mortality. Better? Good. So yeah, 22 years. It quickly became a part of children’s classics. The…
Some spoilers I’m going to buck the trend when I say this, but I wasn’t all that impressed with Thor: Ragnarok. That’s not to say it was terrible, and that’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy it. But I was simply not impressed with the movie. Going in, I…
Okay, I’m going to start by undercutting my title: Eerie Indiana didn’t actually make me who I am. But it was still super important. It’s a little weird, but then again, so is the show. Eerie, Indiana is a scifi/fantasy/horror kids show from 1991. It ran for one season (19…
Ideas tend to crop up in pop culture over and over, as fast as they become irrelevant, can just as quickly they become relevant once more. Vampires can represent a repressed Victorian sexuality, or the roiling power of young adulthood. Robots can be the cold, inhuman force of communism, or combined…
There had been rumors rolling around the internet that The Orville wouldn’t really have an example of what sort of show it would be until the third episode. Critics were given the first three and, while full reviews didn’t pop up immediately, word was that was the episode when The…
שנה טובה (shanah tovah) and happy new year! Tonight is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year (5778)! Actually, it’s one of four new year days each year, but this is the one that is we really celebrate since it’s the new year for the calendar and for seasons. All sorts…
I’m never sure how to react on this day, each year. I absolutely want to acknowledge the people who died that day, some heroes and some “just” victims. But this day is a dark day not just for those deaths, but also for the tone that politics took from that…
Wonder Woman landed on digital download yesterday, and comes out on DVD Blu-ray on September 19th. Since its theatrical release I have heard a number of my female friends voice interest in movie to Themyscira, with countless more mentions online. And who could blame them? Between the all-women population, the…
When it came to music I wasn’t exactly a late bloomer, but I did follow a strange path. As a small child I listened almost exclusively to classical, film scores, soundtracks1, and musicals. My main exposure to pop music was what I absorbed through osmosis by way of my parents. This…
