Disney Byways: Another Year of Disney+
When Disney+ started, we paid $76.50, including taxes and things, for a year of service.…
What Scares Us
Horror goes in cycles. Vampires, serial killers, the shambling undead. What we see varies, what…
Music and My Freshman Year
I turned fourteen in December 1990. That means I spent most of 1991 at that…
Disney Byways: Disney’s Saccharine Reputation
I don’t know when the idea of Disney’s output being tame and over-sweet got started;…
Disney Byways: Disney Adult
There’s a lot to unpack about the term “Disney adult,” one I’ve never used to…
Distrusting the Stubble: Society’s Judgement of Facial Hair
We got caught up on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier last night. Just the…
No Sense of Proportion
When I was a child, I was in a program called Reading Is Fundamental. In…
Sports Movies: A National Obsession
The Wikipedia list of sports movies is very badly curated. Okay, they specifically reject the…
The Culture of Suicide
“You know what they say about people who commit suicide—in the afterlife, they become civil…
A Proliferation of Cops
Practically no one on TV just happens to be a police officer. The only Wacky…