Tag: 1980s

Twilight of the Geeks

Patton Oswalt wants to save geekery by destroying it:  “In order to save pop culture future, we’ve got to make the present pop culture suck, at least for a little while.”  It reminds me of Jim Munroe’s question at WisCon 2008:  “Does it have to get boring before […]

80 Years of Genre Snubs

Horror movies are celebrating their hundredth year in 2010, with the anniversary of the 1910 Edison Lab’s production of Frankenstein.  Bloody Disgusting catalogs “some of the biggest…genre snubs in Oscar history, in Part Four of B-D’s ‘100 Years in Horror’ series.”