Writing hasn’t been easy for me lately. In lieu of many significant life changes, including but not limited to divorce, back surgery, and the clustered deaths of friends and family, including my father, I’ve felt my need to write extinguished by the inkless dark vacuum of writer’

Shawn Robare of  Branded in the 80s and the Cult Film Club podcast  joins me to discuss a topic inspired by Shawn’s own Awesome 80s Bedrooms series, the inner sanctum of our childhood bedrooms. For some kids, the bedroom is the one place in the house that we have any control ove

Recently, the folks at the Nerd Lunch podcast were kind enough to let me stammer and flub my way through another entertaining conversation. In this episode, hosts CT and Pax, Michael from The Atomic Geeks and Classic Film Jerks, and I play god, spinning imagined cinematic universes ou

May is one of my favorite months. The New England winter thaw is complete, and spring is underway. Most importantly, May brings with it Free Comic Book Day, a religious holiday for acolytes of the four-color media. Since 2002, on the first Saturday in May, participating comic shops se

Though I’ve been a lifelong comic book reader with a reverence for the creators behind the content, and an enthusiast of the geekier aspects of pop culture, I didn’t experience my first comic book convention until my late 30s. By the time I learned of such things, the fina

Sometimes, as I fade off to sleep, I revisit settings from my childhood. I’m able to conjure up places where I’ve lived with such clarity that it almost feels like I’ve traveled back in time. I walk from room to room with meticulous recall: the wood paneling in the k