Given events we both want to attend this coming weekend, Deb and I celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary this past weekend. We had a lovely steak dinner and took in Red Pitch, a marvelous play at the Olney Theatre. Over our meal, we talked about regrets and we each harbor some. In retrospect, ours are […]
In 1999, I was Editorial Coordinator at DC Comics, my seventh year in the role. I was approaching the millennium and my 42nd birthday and was beginning to wonder if I was happy with the notion of staying at DC for the remainder of my career. The main reason for this feeling at the time […]
All of a sudden, I find myself looking back. The other day it was the 49th anniversary of my attending the first Star Trek Convention. This month marks 37 years since I joined DC Comics full-time and 20 since I had my less-than-marvelous year at Marvel Comics. It was late November, if I recall, that […]
Over the summer I had to write a piece imitating the style of the Object Lessons column from The Atlantic. I wrote about the vanishing use of the programming guide. Here’s a modified version for your consideration.Variety reported in August that pay-TV distributors lost 566,000 subscribers during the second quarter of 2015, which is traditionally […]