Pages Tagged “Nostalgia”
Reviews
- Ready Player One (Book)
★★★☆☆
Ernest Cline
Back when I read it, the nostalgia and scavenger hunt were enough for me. Now, not so much. - Ready Player One (Movie)
★★★★☆
Steven Spielberg
Better than I expected, having soured on the book by the time it came out. Not a straight adaptation so much as a rewrite of the same premise that’s more character-driven and yes, more cinematic. With Spielberg.
Blog Posts
- Musical Nostalgia in a Nutshell
I used to hear this song everywhere! This really takes me back! 😀 (one verse later) Oh, yeah. I hated this song. 😒
- Shaggy Flashback
IKEA is selling avocado green shag carpet. In 2015. Now *that’s* a flashback!
- Why the 1990s are Back
Elements of the 1990s are creeping back into comics, music, movies and TV. Pop culture nostalgia runs on a 20-year cycle, and the 80s are on their way out.
- Planning for 90s Nostalgia
One day, someone will take a collection of popular songs from the 1990s and turn it into a nostalgia musical. Update July 2016: I was wondering if this had happened yet. I suppose you could count “American Idiot,” but apparently the album was intended to tell a story, so it’s not quite the same as […]
- Captain Carrot Returns!
CBR reports that Teen Titans #30-31 will feature the long-awaited* return of Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! It seems that Kid Flash is a fan of the series, which never actually got canceled in the DC Universe, and has gone grim-n-gritty with the rest of the DC line. “Excerpts” of a Zoo Crew […]
- Nostalgia not included
My dresser is an IKEA kit and was something of a bear to assemble. The second drawer down has recently developed the annoying habit of not closing on the first go, and I feel a strange obligation to fix it but I’m not sure how. It’d be nice if the stuff would come with more […]