Karen: This is the sort of post you never want to have to write. Or you wish you had written it sooner, when the subject of your admirati...

Karen: Today our pal Edo revives the long-dormant "In Appreciation Of..." topic to take a look at a film I've always been c...

Karen: I sit here stunned at the news of Robin Williams' passing. Only 63, still far too soon to leave this world. I don't want to d...

Karen: Ray Harryhausen, the master of stop-motion animation, passed away this week on May 7th at the venerable age of 92. He was a legend i...

Karen: Back in the early seventies, I had a poster in my room that was very similar to the picture on the right here. I bet millions of ot...

Karen: John Belushi meant a lot to me and my friends when we were teenagers. He was the rebel, the weirdo, the wild man, the misfit who r...

Doug: Karen's away, so Doug will play! Actually, Karen posted this subject in the queue, but then vacation planning got the better of ...

Doug: This one's inspired by a comment frequent reader Redartz posted on our Walt Simonson Spotlight last week. He related a short ane...

Karen: When fans think of Marvel Comics and the people that shaped the Marvel universe, two names probably come up more than any others: Sta...

Doug: Today I'd like to celebrate some songs from my kidhood that really contributed to the development of my social conscience. Now...

Karen: As a kid, I grew up reading a lot of science fiction. In my tweens and early teens, one of the books I really enjoyed was Robert H...

Doug: Late last week I lost one of my earliest "favorite players" and a real character in the game of baseball. Chicago Cubs thi...

Karen: Have you ever heard a song that just seemed to somehow flip a switch inside of you, as if the proverbial light bulb went on over y...