It’s fall and that means it’s time for my annual Baltimore Comic-Con coverage! This year, I decided to spend two days at the convention, so you get twice the coverage! Join me as I talk about going both Friday and Saturday along with all of the random stuff I got. I’ve also got interviews with people in artist alley and I sit down with Stella to get her take on the weekend.
Remember being in school and the teacher wheeled the TV/VCR cart into the room? You knew that it was going to be the most amazing part of the school day. Well, this time around, I go back through my memories of watching educational films in school. Starting with kids movies and Afterschool Specials in elementary school and up through AIDS education films in high school, I go through the movies I remember the most.
It’s part two of a two-part crossover with Required Reading With Tom and Stella. In part one, we looked at Homer’s The Odyssey. Here, we take another look at The Odyssey, this time looking at the recently released blockbuster movie directed by Christopher Nolan. What did we think of the film? What did we think of the film as an adaptation of The Odyssey? Listen and find out!
90210, The X-Files, The Simpsons, In Living Color,21 Jump Street, and … Herman’s Head? Join me this episode as I take a trip back into the late 1980s and the first decade of the Fox network. I go into the network’s origins as well as its early programming (some of which were hits and many of which were not), and then will talk about some of my favorite or most-remembered shows in various genres.
It’s the early ’90s. It’s my adolesence. And yes … it’s on Fox!
In 1987, White Water Summer, starring Kevin Bacon and Sean Astin, was released. The movie did poorly in theaters but gained a following on cable and video, becoming a coming-of-age cult classic. This episode, I’m joined by Mark Ray, one of the film’s stuntmen. He talks to me about the movie and his experience filming it.
“You May Be Right,” “Allentown,” “Tell Her About It” … all of these are found on the seminal compilation album Billy Joel Greatest Hits Vol 1 and 2, which came out 40 years ago. Join me as I take a look at the Piano Man’s music throughout the decade of the Eighties.
He-Man and the forces of good fight Skeletor for the freedom of Eternia! Cannon Films presents … MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE! This time around, I’m going to take a look at the 1987 live-action adaptation of the popular toy line, Masters of the Universe, which starred Dolph Lundgern as He-Man, Frank Langella as Skeletor, and Courteney Cox as Julie. I’ll give my review as well as my history with the entire Masters of the Universe franchise. Plus, listener feedback!
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It’s JSApril! All this month, comics podcasts and blogs are celebrating the original super-hero team, the Justice Society of America. For this episode, I’ll be talking about one of the JSA’s darkest hours, their battle with Extant in Zero Hour, followed by their re-match/redemption in “The Hunt for Extant”. I’ll also talk about Extant’s origins and the Impulse One-Shot “Bart Saves the Universe.”
For more JSApril content, look for #JSApril on social media or check out JSApril: Celebrating 85 Years of the JSA at the Fire and Water Podcast Network.
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And for more JSApril, look for #JSApril on social media and check out this list of all of the contributors to JSApril, and thanks to The Fire and Water Podcast Network for putting all of this together!
If you’ve been listening to my show, you’ve been hearing ads for an exciting crossover event: JSApril! During this entire month, a huge number of comic book and pop culture blogs and podcasts will be doing their part to celebrate the original super-hero team, The Justice Society of America. The JSA made its debut in 1940 and all of these blogs and shows are going to be bringing coverage from throughout that entire 85-year history. My contribution, which will cover the JSA fighting against Extant in both Zero Hour: Crisis in Time and “The Hunt for Extant” in the Geoff Johns JSA comic book series, will come out around April 21.
In the meantime, check out this list of all of the contributors to JSApril, and thanks to The Fire and Water Podcast Network for putting all of this together!
It’s become an annual tradition at this point to spend my first episode of the year talking about The Uncollecting, which is my effort to downsize my geek stuff. This time around, I’m joined by Relatively Geeky’s own Professor Alan to talk about various aspects of “uncollecting”, from the economics to the personal.
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