Jon Del Arroz

Some days it’s hard to find a blog topic, especially when the political noise is cluttering everything and making it very hard to focus on cultural items, but the lesson of all of it is — a lot of things are out of our control and we just have to keep working on what we […]

Last night I started reading Popeye by E.C. Segar, one of the earliest heroes in comics and maybe the first humor strip that had a continuing building narrative. The plotlines are simple, but there’s an elegance to them at the same time. The characters are wide-eyed, joyous about everything even their failures, excited for strange […]

I had not idea this was a thing but just discovered there’s a crew running a vintage sci-fi month. Every month is vintage sci-fi month for me, as when I read, that’s pretty much what I read. I just got finished with reading A.E. Van Vogt’s first novel, Slan, which was originally serialized in 1940 […]

Last night’s New Years Eve shows were about the saddest thing our culture’s ever produced. It was low budget, washed up D-Listers with empty streets and sad piped-in fake applause. It’s the culmination of everything our corporate culture has become: fake, empty, hollow, devoid of talent. Everyone’s incentivized to produce art which is functionless, meaningless, […]