We didn’t see it coming: fiction and pandemic
Living through 2020 makes me appreciate that novelists and screenwriters aren’t clairvoyant. While we’ve had plagues in history, and several accounts of what they were like — hell, most of …
Category: Life
But what kind of hypocrites are they?
By”I hate all hypocrisy… Except my own, of course.” I’ve noticed over the years that, beyond the main definition ‘do as I say not as I do’, there are subcategories …
A web comic everyone should be reading: COVID Chronicles
This past summer, AWA’s Upshot Studios, in collaboration with NBC News, launched a web-comic series called COVID Chronicles, about the worldwide toll being taken by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Writer Ethan Sacks and artist Dalibor Talajić spoke to us about the project.
iPhone Irony
Travis shares a tale of irony and woe, with a warning to back up the information on your cell phones, and a promise (or threat?) that this won’t stop him from blogging!
Who Are You Calling a Boomer?
There’s been this trend of late, blaming this generation or that for all the world’s problems — “Boomers destroyed the economy!””Millennials are killing [everything]!” “Gen Xers all want participation trophies!” — and that’s not what this post is about. What it is about is recognizing and appreciating the influences and factors that contribute to some of the trends and attitudes associated with certain generations, and pointing out why some of those generational groupings may be too broad and/or inaccurate.
We Were Warned: What the Movie Villains Should Have Taught Us
This thought occurred to me as I was driving home the other night. I was listening to the soundtrack to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, it was at the part where the mob sings: “We don’t like what we don’t understand, in fact it scares us…” I thought “huh, Trump voters.” And then it hit me… Donald Trump is a Disney Villain.