Delivering papers and bicycling through time: Paper Girls
I finished the Brian K. Vaughn/Cliff Chiang series Paper Girls in 2020, then reread the whole thing in 2021 (yep, this is another repost from my own blog). I’m glad …
Category: Pop culture
Question of the Week: What piece of pop culture had the most influence on you?
Let’s talk about influence!
Living the meme: things that keep a geek up at night
Sometimes those memes floating around on social media hit a little too close to home…
Satire Is What Closes on a Saturday Night
As part of my research for The Aliens Are Here (which McFarland has settled on as the title for what I’ve been calling Alien Visitors), I rewatched the cheerfully deranged …
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.
