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Cultural Junkdrawer (super fun sized edition) – Stranger in a strange land

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer August 23, 2022

A booth hyping a big budget Sci-Fi/fantasy epic called “Alienoid” which, from what I could gather from the various lifesize cardboard standees, is a time traveling, sword fighting, alien possessing-human body, taoist monk sci-fi adventure. …

Cultural Junkdrawer – Redemption Arcs

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer February 23, 2022

Anyway, looking at the big picture of culture at large, it’s easy to find a few different shows that maybe share a theme or two and see a commentary on where we’re headed. It’s a …

Cultural Junkdrawer – Downtown Gotham

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer June 18, 2021

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve overheard in the Target toy department a six year old saying to his parents “I think Batman is cool because he has a lot of neato gadgets, …

Cultural Junk Drawer – Kaiju and Chill?

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer April 15, 2021

The specter of death and ruination hangs over the very idea of going to see a movie in a theater in much the same way it hangs over a AARP swingers cruise or a Trump …

Cultural Junkdrawer – Season’s End: WandaVision pt 2: Quibbles, Trolls and The Future!

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer March 25, 2021

Season’s End is a less than regular feature I do for Cultural Junkdrawer where I take a season of a TV show, break it down, analyze it to death and ramble on about what worked …

Cultural Junkdrawer – Season’s End: WandaVision pt 1: (Hex)nuts and Bolts!

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer March 19, 2021

WandaVision took an even greater step by being about almost anything you wanted it to be. The format allowed for deeply personal to widespread cultural resonance. I’ve read and viewed think pieces about grief, validation …

Cultural Junkdrawer: Film Crew, Covid-19 and the “Elite” myth

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer December 8, 2020

From a film crew perspective, of which I share, Things are a bit different. Having been film crew for nearly 30 years in set electric (I get my 25 year union pin in 2021 and …

Cultural Junkdrawer – DC Fandome: A 78.4% true recap!

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer August 25, 2020

The two of you that regularly read my Cultural Junkdrawer column know that every few years I do a recap of SDCC where I basically tell you what you already know, a rando dick joke, …

Cultural Junkdrawer: The Pros and Cons of “The Snyder Cut” coming out.

Columns Cultural Junk Drawer May 24, 2020

Surely the original vision of the auteur who brought us a grudge match between an invincible, super strong objectivist proxy with a gadget laden, super rich objectivist proxy (both with mothers named Martha) would’ve been …

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