I’m going to attempt to write this piece without using “in my day…”. I grew up in the 80’s. I remember playing Gauntlet in the arcade, I had a Barbie and Jem and the Holograms sticker book. I collected Garbage Pail Kid cards, even though secretly they kind of grossed me out. I had a…
April Fool’s Extravaganza 2015
Happy April Fool’s Day! For those who have no idea where this came from, April Fool’s Day is also Roman New Year. Tradition was that on Roman New Year you’d celebrate with jokes and pranks. If you believe in the Constantine legend (no, not the comic book), it was the day that Emperor Constantine allowed…
Love for the Anti-Hero
What is with the human species and the anti-hero? I can go as far back as Shakespeare’s main character Hamlet, comic book heroes like Iron Man/Tony Stark and Batman/Bruce Wayne, to Grumpy from Snow White, Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street, to Walter White & Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, and, of course, Grumpy Cat! What…
Hello Kitty goes the way of Guy Fawkes
Women (and some men) the world over may have been truly shocked and confused after hearing the news that Hello Kitty, the beloved character from Sanrio, was never really a kitty to begin with. As reported by the LA Times article, Sanrio informed Christine R. Yano, anthropologist from the University of Hawaii (ironic, being that…