Atomic Roundtable: Stuff We Don’t Get
Together, we at the Junk Shop have a great deal of knowledge about a great many things in the SF/fantasy genre ... but there are some odd gaps in our nerd cred. Here we confess to completely missing...
View ArticleMore Missing the Point
Recently "Le Messor" had a post here about "Things Geeks Aren't Supposed to Think," which included comments on Watchmen; in the comments section, somebody remarked, "I think people really took the...
View ArticleGone in 13 Episodes (or Less!)
It's been my gift (and curse) that I seem to remember hundreds of terrible TV shows that only aired for half a season and dropped into the abyss half a century ago. I can't tell you what my bride asked...
View ArticleTV Flops That Got Past Half a Season
Last time, we looked at oddball TV shows that couldn't make it past 13 episodes, and I promised I had a similar list of shows that were marginally more successful. And here we are. The post TV Flops...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with ‘Star Wars’ (and How to Fix It)
Once again, I found myself writing a lengthy response to a post on Facebook, and just before I hit send, I thought "gee, this would be better as a post over at the Junk Shop." So here we are. This time...
View ArticleIt’s Not About What It’s About: Dissecting Some Cult Classics
Buckaroo Banzai is really more fantasy than SF. Where Star Wars is the classic Quest fantasy, Buckaroo Banzai follows a different story; there is a hidden world we don’t know about, and in that world,...
View ArticlePointless Fanboy Speculation: Howard the Duck
After he got his cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy, I thought that eventually Howard the Duck would get another shot at the movies. Hope burns eternal. Which brings us to Pointless Fanboy Speculation,...
View ArticleOf Breakfast Cereals and Cults
So I went down a rabbit-hole a while back and I ended up in a weird place. It started innocently enough, with a discussion of General Mills' monster-themed breakfast cereals, Count Chocula, Franken...
View ArticleAtomic Roundtable: Best Movie (Whatevers) From Before 1990!
A while back, author Adam-Troy Castro commented on Facebook that he keeps seeing posts on different pop culture sites with titles like "All-Time Greatest Movie [whatevers]" -- best villains, sexiest...
View ArticleAdventures in the 700 Section
From about age 12 to 15, almost all of my pop culture itches were scratched at the Torrance Public Library. Where Greg Hatcher steeped himself in genre fiction, I was all about the nonfiction; the...
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