When I set out to interview all of the folks that were doing work that I respected back in the ‘90s, during the golden age of zines, there was one person I knew I wouldn’t be able to speak with. I’d been told by multiple people that Doug Holland, the man behind the legendary zine […]
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Will there be more babies or divorces as a result of COVID-19?
I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about both the long and short term effects of COVID-19, and, more specifically, our being asked to shelter in place for what could be months. I’m thinking about everything from the psychological implications for an entire generation of young people, to what this might mean for the future […]
The creation of a global movement for preserving life on earth… right here, right now
In a perfect word, people would do the right thing just because it was the right thing. They would give money to the people of Bangladesh without George Harrison having to produce a concert, and they would have marched to demand clean drinking water for the citizens of Flint without Mark Ruffalo calling them into […]
Has there ever been a mirror store on the planet earth?
At some point during the 1964 film The Last Man on Earth, Vincent Price, who portrays a character by the name of Dr. Robert Morgan, has to leave his fortress of a home, and head into the city in order to restock his vampire repellant supplies. [A virus has swept across the word, killing everyone, […]
Failing to get his military parade, Trump decides to co-opt the Fourth of July
Every Fourth of July for the past 38 years, PBS, with the help of partners like Boeing, the National Park Service, and American Airlines, has hosted an enormous public event in Washington, DC called A Capital Fourth, which begins with the National Symphony Orchestra playing on the West Lawn of the Capitol, and ends with […]