You want a fun piece of geek sacrilege? I've never seen any of the Buffy TV show. Not a minute. I know, I'm missing out on one of the...

One of my favorite books when I was young was The Iceberg Hermit, by Arthur Roth. The protagonist first appears in The Surpassing...

Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends was a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon from 1981 to 1983, but had a huge impact on me. Much of my...

I admit to a certain feeling of kinship with Dan Brown, sharing a hometown, knowing his family, meeting him several times. Even if none...

There was a time when Chevy Chase was funny. Really funny. And if his early-80s run of Caddyshack, Spies Like Us, and Vacation was Hall...

James Clavell's weighty novel Noble House is the fourth entry in his sweeping Asian Saga (though the fifth in the timeline). A...

Yeah, I was an Archie comics guy. For all their insipid shallowness, they were a fun, quick read at a certain time in my life. Yes, they...

1776 has always been my favorite stage production. Stone and Edwards did a masterful job in adapting the epic story of how the rare...

Sesame Street was a big deal when I was a little guy. Only six years old when I was born, it was already firmly established as an iconic...

Kicking off the second half of this yearlong exercise with yet another of the despicable rogues who populate this list. I enjoy a good...

While A Prayer for Owen Meany is undeniably my favorite John Irving novel, Cider House Rules is a not-too-distant second. His loving...

Robin Hood was never really a hero of mine (my own political leanings aside). And other than maybe Errol Flynn's prehistoric relics, or...