Podcast: (Zoloft) Zombie Nightmare
Oh, hey, remember when we said we would watch the 1987 Jon Mikl Thor sorta-vehicle Zombie Nightmare and discuss it in time for Halloween? Well, here it is, just in time for…Thanksgiving. Yeah,...
Women’s History Month: The Velvet Underground & Nico’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties”
Next Sunday, March 12, marks the 50th anniversary of the debut album by the Velvet Underground: a band so generally groundbreaking, it can be easy to forget that they were...
Dracula: Fashion Icon
https://youtu.be/DVs4T64qGi0 Last holiday season, I wrote a post summarizing the style history of one of my fashion icons: Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It was one of the...
From the Vault: The Monkees, Pop’s First Postmodernists
Editor's Note: Today, September 12, 2016, marks the 50th anniversary (!) of the premiere of The Monkees on NBC. And as one of the few people under the age of 55 who actually...
Dystopian Road Mix Vol. 9: Northern Virginia to New York City, Part 2
Well, here it is. Ever since I wrote my first Dystopian Road Mix exactly two years ago, I've known in the back of my mind that eventually I'd be writing about...
Let Us Now Praise Reformed Death Dwarves: The Dystopian Dance Party Guide to Lou Reed
It wasn't until I starting writing last Monday's essay about Lou Reed when I remembered how much he actually means to me. Reed was one of a sequence of troubled rock 'n' roll...