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Intrusive Thoughts

Aging Changes

August 19, 2020

It's strange to consider how people look younger for longer than they did even just a few decades ago.

Year of the Month

Mirrored Love: Orpheus

August 13, 2020

A meditation on beauty, death, and possibly immortality.

Year of the Month

Choose Your Fighter: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

July 13, 2020

When the gamble pays off, everyone pretends that success was inevitable. It wasn’t.

Attention Must Be Paid

Rosemary Clooney

July 4, 2020

One of many members of a seriously distinguished Hollywood family.

Year of the Month

Look at this face. What do you see? Get a Life

July 2, 2020

The Chris Elliott sitcom Fox took a chance on in its early days is bizarre, surreal, and deeply sarcastic, and it still holds up today

Year of the Month

“I Just Want to Sleep” — The Narrow, Dark World of The Machinist

June 23, 2020

Self-knowledge, guilt, and fear.

Intrusive Thoughts

Weird Pop Culture Cartoons

June 3, 2020

Why was there such a fixation on making cartoons of pop culture that didn't need to be children's cartoons?

In Memoriam

Let’s take a sleigh ride: Fred Willard, 1933-2020

May 16, 2020

Remembering the brilliant comedic actor whose career spanned seven decades

Disney Byways

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

May 15, 2020

A movie my brain always insists needs a "who" in the title that is an interesting time capsule of the history of computing.

In Memoriam

“I Feel I Have So Many Projects and I Haven’t Completed Them Yet”: Roy Horn, 1944–2020

May 9, 2020

Half of an act that never will (and probably never should) be duplicated.