Sectionals! An Ode from Saturday Night Live and Louis CK
Saturday Night Live and Louis CK gave us an incredibly bizarre and absurd ode to sectionals, and Travis explains why he loved the sketch so much!
Category: TV
The ‘Iron Fist’ Argument
Since everybody’s arguing about Iron Fist, it only makes sense that we here at Atomic Junk Shop should jump into the fray. I thought maybe the best thing to do would be to not get all whitesplainy, so instead of sounding off about my opinion of all this, I thought I’d do something sensible. So I looked through my Facebook list for friends who are geeks of Asian descent; we fired up a group chat and started talking.
Meet Artemis: Madison McLaughlin
I got a chance to interview Arrow’s Madison McLaughlin over at GeekDad. And here’s the story behind the story. For the last 15 years or so, I’ve been teaching archery at the world’s oldest field archery range; a few years back, a family showed up; parents and four girls, two of whom were in wheelchairs. The oldest daughter was about 17.
The Lost Overture
It’s not completely dead, but it’s getting there.
I’m talking about the lost art of cool opening credits for a TV show.
Travis Made a Meme!
Travis is snowed in but made this little Venture Bros. related meme from the news last week. Enjoy and feel free to share!
In Defense of Reverence
If a character’s lasted for decades before you got your hands on them, there’s usually a reason for that. And it’s usually because the creators did something — or several somethings — right. So it makes sense to consider exactly what made the character successful in the first place before you translate them to the screen.
Everything We Know About ‘American Gods’
After having written about old stuff from the 1960s-90s recently, it’s nice to get back to being excited about new stuff, though this is one I’ve been excited about for a good long while; ever since I read American Gods and its sequel, Anansi Boys, I’ve kept an eye out for news about its inevitable film production. Following the success of Game of Thrones, Neil Gaiman’s book was picked up as a TV series, first briefly by HBO, and later by Starz.