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Joe Pace

Aug 6, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #220: The Minotaur

I devoured Greek mythology as a boy, in whatever form I could find it. Doris Gates' Penguin versions, Barbara Picard's outstanding...

Joe Pace

Aug 5, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #219: Kate Moseley

A nod to here to the opening of the 2016 Olympic Games with a detour back into guilty pleasure territory. 1992's romcom The Cutting Edge...

Joe Pace

Aug 4, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #218: The Owl who was God

I have enjoyed James Thurber's fables since I was a boy, as well as his perfectly simple sketched illustrations. (His depiction of...

Joe Pace

Aug 3, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #217: Smaug

Smaug wasn't the first dragon I knew by name - that would have been Tiamat, the many-headed antagonist from the classic and awesome D&D...

Joe Pace

Aug 2, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #216: E.T.

For those of my vintage, it's hard to overstate what a big deal E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was. It was 1982, a vastly simpler time, with...

Joe Pace

Aug 1, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #215: Joe Banks

I've never been a huge Tom Hanks fan. I don't get what all the fuss is about, frankly. He was fine and all as a goofy comic actor in fare...

Joe Pace

Jul 31, 2016

Favorite Fictional Characters, #214: Christian

I've never walked out of a movie theater, but the closest I ever came was during the first ten minutes of Moulin Rouge! It was so...

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