Look back, but don’t stare
On the text page in 1987s Airboy and Mr. Monster Special, comics writer Gerard Jones quoted baseball player Satchell Paige (“”It’s okay to look back. Just don’t stare.”) to describe …
Category: Culture
Gettysburg National Military Park: 2022 Road Trip
My East Coast road trip this year featured an overnight stop at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of a three-day-long Civil War battle that ended in a …
SESH: Healthy….Alcohol?
As a child of Generation X, I grew up in the era of the wine cooler, that sometimes foul mixture of soda and wine. So when a brand of low-carbohydrate …
Road Trip Part 2: Appomattox Court House National Historic Park
Welcome to part two of our road trip from Connecticut to Myrtle Beach where I’ll focus heavily on our visit to Appomattox Court House National Historic Park. Part One mainly …
Road Trip Part 1: Connecticut to Frederick, Maryland
The Trip Part 1: Connecticut to Maryland How did we end up in Frederick, Maryland this summer? Boredom combined with curiosity. As Covid shut down everything last summer, I buried …
Adventures in the 700 Section
From about age 12 to 15, almost all of my pop culture itches were scratched at the Torrance Public Library. Where Greg Hatcher steeped himself in genre fiction, I was all about the nonfiction; the people, the history, the methods. We were both trying to escape, but while Greg was escaping into fictional worlds, I was trying to escape into a different real world, become a different person, and I knew that the tools to do that would be found almost entirely in the 700 section.