
Youtuber Quinton Reviews, famous for putting absurd amounts of time into lengthy reviews of Nickelodeon shows from the late aughts, has done it again. If you feel like spending an average work day listening to a critique of Victoria Justice's sitcom...

It's nice to take pleasure in simpler joys sometimes, and it doesn't get much simpler than Rubik's Cube, the delight of kids who want to show off how smart they are, overly competitive adults, and, for one year in the 80s, unsettling animated childre...

I was fascinated to dive into all 600 pages (!) of A World With Reality: Inside Marvin Glass's Toy Vault, Bill Paxton's monumental biography and history of the toy invention business. You know the classic toys his company invented: Operation, Rock...
The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. I first touted the virtues of the “word visual” in 2014. For those not familiar with this technique, the idea is to use th...

Adam Mastroianni runs the numbers on how consolidated and self-referential pop culture has become. More than 80 percent of the top 20 movies are now sequels or spinoffs, and they account for some 60% of the box office. Less music artists than ever en...

Poetry professor Garret Hongo's new book The Perfect Sound [amazon] is aptly named. It's the perfect book for any fan of all things audio. It combines a personal family memoir with midcentury Hawaiian and Southern Californian culture, pop music perso...
The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. I first touted the virtues of the “word visual” in 2014. For those not familiar with this technique, the idea is to use th...