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The writers’ and actors’ strikes have disrupted the pipeline of new shows and movies. We’re going to run out of new stuff to watch soon. Our listener…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ghosted by TV Shows
We’ve all had this experience. We get hooked on a show. We fall in love with the characters. We can’t stop thinking about them in between episodes. T…
2 years, 6 months ago
Extreme Makeover: Fairy Godmother Edition
Who wouldn’t want a fairy godmother to solve our problems with the flick of a magic wand? We know that’s not a healthy fantasy and yet, fairy godmoth…
2 years, 6 months ago
How to Go to Infinity and Beyond
These ships feel like old friends – The Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, The Rosinante. But would any of them actua…
2 years, 7 months ago
Welcome Our New A.I. Overlords
Science fiction has primed us for this moment when artificial intelligence starts to take on a life of its own. ChatGPT has baffled and surprised eve…
2 years, 7 months ago
Warhammer - The Heavy Metal of Board Games
As the Warhammer franchise reaches its 40th anniversary, the company Games Workshop’s stated goal of “total global domination” is going swimmingly. B…
2 years, 8 months ago
Why The Gothic Keeps Gaslighting Us
Our culture is going through a Gothic Revival -- partly thanks to the influence of Tim Burton. Gothic literature may have thrived in the 19th century…
2 years, 8 months ago
Haunted By Pepper's Ghost
A play by Charles Dickens. The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. A hologram of a famous dead pop singer. They’re all connected by a simple magic tr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Making The Muppets
When Jim Henson hired Bonnie Erickson to design Muppets in the early 1970s, Bonnie had no idea this experimental project they were working on – a pri…
2 years, 9 months ago
Miyazaki Imagines an Environment
This summer, Hayao Miyazaki will be releasing his final animated film before retiring. Environmental stewardship has been a consistent theme througho…
2 years, 9 months ago