You live long enough and you see the same patterns emerge, over and over again. A generation comes of age, falls under the spell of Ration...

The point of art for most of human history was magical- culture was about the cult . The goal of art was to commune with the gods- to creat...

A look at the 2011 top 20 grossing films in the US should send bolts of terror down the spine of any Hollywood mogul.

We saw clips of this for a recent William Gibson post, now here's the whole thing. Functions both as charmingly dated (g)nostalgia for d...

The 90s were the decade of my great romance with books. There were so many life-changing titles that came out I can't begin to name them...

The older I get, the more sense George Carlin makes. We lost him this week last year, and boy, we could use a dozen or so more where he cam...

Front row: Christopher Partridge, Jeff Kripal and Michael Murphy  Second row: George Stephanopolous, Ed May, Dulce Murphy, Dean Radin, Vic...

Well, the vacation I had planned all year for turned out to be quite the disaster when I caught a good dose of a summer flu that's been ...

This is the Ren Fair I used to go to in Mass. There was no jousting or anything in NJ, but a f*ck of a lot of this...

Passion by Kensuke Okabayashi Wow, the action just never stops. After returning home from Esalen and blogging my brains out on Saturday, I ...

I spent an underwhelming weekend at the Pittsburgh Comic Con (actually held in Monroeville) and got to thinking about the comic book nation ...

The missus and I made the pilgrimage to Dragon*Con for our 20th anniversary and had the frickin' time of our lives. I've been siftin...

There’s been a bit of a hullabaloo over that the fact that 2004 is the 70th anniversary of the modern American comic book. For most people, ...