Category: Pop culture

Culture, History, Jim MacQuarrie, Movies, Pop culture, Science Fiction

The Tomorrowland Promise

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Somehow, we were all convinced to abandon the idea of Utopia, to give up on the notion that the future would be better than today. The reason Disneyland’s Tomorrowland was allowed to become quaint and kitsch and eventually retro-cool is that it couldn’t be updated, because we’ve had no vision for the future since the mid-1970s. Or at least not for a future that’s nicer than our present.

Comics Culture, Edo Bosnar, Fraser Sherman, Greg Burgas, Greg Hatcher, Jim MacQuarrie, John Trumbull, Pop culture, Rummaging & Ruminating, Travis Pelkie

Atomic Roundtable: Stuff We Don’t Get

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Together, we at the Junk Shop have a great deal of knowledge about a great many things in the SF/fantasy genre … but there are some odd gaps in our nerd cred. Here we confess to completely missing out on classic shows or movies or whatever that are givens for most people in fan culture. Whether it’s lack of time or lack of access or just plan lack of interest, these are the normally-beloved things we don’t get.

Culture, History, Jim MacQuarrie, Life, Pop culture, Rummaging & Ruminating

Who Are You Calling a Boomer?

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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.