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 …
Category: History
The Siancong War: Worse Than I Thought
Thanks to my local library I read History of the Marvel Universe by Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez yesterday, hoping to clarify some of my questions about the Siancong War. …
My Life in Movies
In 2017 this meme-list-game-datamining thing was going around Facebook, in which you were supposed to list your favorite movie from each year of your life. Naturally, like all things on Facebook, it’s coming around again. Since I never did it back then, I thought I’d do it now. I quickly realized that while a Gen-Z or Millennial could bang out a list of a couple dozen films pretty quickly, for an old fart like, me, a list of films for every year of my life is a major undertaking; rather than squander all that time on a Facebook post, I thought I’d turn it into an article here, where I can expound a bit on some of the entries.
The spy on whom the sun never sets: James Bond and England
When Ian Fleming published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953, Britain was widely seen as a nation in a decline. During the war years, the UK had been …
‘Sky Captain’ Interview, Part 3
I’ve been sitting on the last part of my interview with Kevin Conran and Michael Sean Foley for a few years now, waiting to coincide with the long-delayed release of Kevin’s beautiful book, Sky Captain and the Art of Tomorrow. That day is finally upon us; the release date is today, February 23, and with it, here’s the conclusion of our interview.
RIP, Ron Goulart
I really don’t like having to write RIP posts, mainly for the obvious reason that they mark a sad event. And as I get on in years, they also make …
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.