Joey MaquedaJan 314 minIt Was Always Going To Turn Out Like ThisLast week, classic rock icon/dinosaur Neil Young issued an ultimatum to music streaming giant Spotify, demanding they either remove The...
Lizbette Ocasio-RusseApr 6, 20213 miniCarly is Wayne's World for Kids Have you ever noticed how much Nickelodeon's iCarly starring Miranda Cosgrove and Jenette McCurdy resembles Wayne's World ? While...
Alexander RodriguezMar 22, 20216 minPop Culture Therapy: How Buffy Helped Me - short non-fiction + short article **trigger warning**Buffy’s face matches my own, as I’m forced to remember that day. “It’s going pretty great; this will be my last ride out with the Fire...
Alexander RodriguezFeb 26, 20213 minRaised by Super HeroesA tale of overcoming abuse and finding family in the work of Stan Lee. That metallic copper taste hits me first, as my eyes open. I’m...
Lizbette Ocasio-RusseFeb 24, 202110 minF* Society, Pass it OnOn Mr. Robot, the Texas power outage, Fight Club, and Corporate America. What once seemed far-away-fictional storytelling about...
Joey MaquedaAug 24, 20205 minMeans of Production: Anti-Communism in Film and TelevisionAs Black Lives Matter protests march on, we are again inundated with not only the nonstop news cycle, but a slew of accompanying...
Joey MaquedaFeb 21, 20208 minPolitics in Video Games: Continue? Y/NCliff Bleszinski is perhaps one rung below what could be considered a household name in the video game industry. He was an early member...
Lizbette Ocasio-RusseNov 23, 20194 minWTF, American Horror Story?!American Horror Story, wtf? I fully expected AHS: 1984 to be as glorious as the 80s theme it promised, but I must say I was pretty...
Joey MaquedaOct 28, 20196 minIs "Woke Culture" Ruining Comedy? Spoiler Alert: No As your self-described “asshole” friends on Facebook would tell you, the world of pop culture is a hellscape of roving Thought Police...
Kevin KhouryAug 4, 20193 minStop Being Lazy, Embrace Subtitles Why are so many people weary of subtitles? Put a few lines of text on the bottom of the screen and people act like they're about to take...
Joey MaquedaJul 19, 20194 minYou Guys Wanna See Dead Bodies?We've all had the same... we'll call it "fantasy." An old newspaper tumbles across an empty street. Rusted-out cars with skeletons at the...
Joey MaquedaMar 22, 20192 minQuentin's Log Professional crazy person and inventor of the excessive gunshot effect Quentin Tarantino wants to make a Star Trek movie. I’m choosing to...