Check this out - it is hysterical and insightful. McSweeney’s has a page for literature-derived humor and provides an extremely short synopsis for Oliver Twist, Moby Dick, 1984, Paradise Lost, and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
The animated series, Futurama, by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, is a creative and irreverent look at the future and futurism. Even though the series persistently shows the nitty-gritty of the future, it never does so disrespectfully, IMHO. Here is the timeline for the series and, as you’ll see, it is highly complicated and [...]
common folks and others
I dropped into WonderCon 2008 today at San Francisco’s Moscone Center: wow, there were thousands of people there, children of all ages! From the people in the line with their kids to the cool geeks who gave away their day passes to me (okay, so I gave them to 3 boys who [...]