I don’t know about you, but I am almost vibrating with anticipation over this weekend’s return of Mad Men, AMC’s meticulous re-creation of life at a Madison Avenue ad agency in the early 1960s, now entering its fourth season. It isn’t only that Mad Men is the best show on TV, like the Great American […]
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So what’s up with this 2012 date?
⇒ See also: “The world ends again in Roland Emmerich’s 2012“ So what’s up with this 2012 date? After the Harmonic Convergence and Y2K and the Millennium didn’t pan out as The End of the World, doomsayers latched onto the next thing to come alongthe Mayan Long Counta 5,000-year-long calendar that “ends” on the winter […]
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I survived Three Mile Island
On Wednesday, March 28, 1979, I was in ninth grade at Susquehanna Township High School, nine miles directly north of Three Mile Island. I must admit, before that day I had never heard of the place, and thought, “What is this ‘TMI’ everyone is talking about?” By the end of the week, there wasn’t a […]
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Comics artist Scott McCloud comes to N.C. State
Scott McCloud, the author of Making Comics, will give a free lecture at NCSU on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. The presentation is part of his “50 State Tour” promoting his new book. While McCloud was a successful comic book writer/ artist in the 1980s, he is best known for his seminal works Understanding […]
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No dice
So the other week I get this package from my friend Trevor. Trev and I grew up together, and even though I haven’t seen him in a dozen years, we still keep in touch via e-mail. Every so often he purges a closet or two and generously scatters the results of his personal archeological dig, […]
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Maximum Cat
She came into our life like an orange hurricane, and exited in much the same fashion exactly one month later. Last spring, neighbors put out the word they had found a kitten. Actually, they said, it had shown up at their back door one day and simply refused to leave. It was driving their dogs […]
